Politics and government Books
MD - Duke University Press Pathways to Prohibition
Book SynopsisStrategies for gradually affecting social change are often dismissed as too accommodating of the status quo. This title examines the strategic choices of social movements through a focus on the fates of the two waves of temperance campaigns.Trade Review“Pathways to Prohibition skillfully employs case materials from the temperance movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to frame and answer a critical question for social movement theory and research: what accounts for the success or failure of social movements? I believe it will make an important contribution to the field.”—Mark Wolfson, author of The Fight against Big Tobacco: The Movement, the State, and the Public’s Health"Pathways to Prohibition effectively argues a distinctive claim: moderation is (sometimes) the path to success. This important claim contradicts the value hierarchy in which more radical forms of action are assumed to be morally superior and more effective. Ann-Marie E. Szymanski directs attention to a host of more moderate forms of mobilization in American political history that have been dismissed as irrevocably compromised."—Elisabeth Clemens, author of The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890–1925Table of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii 1. Political Strategy and Social Movement Outcomes 1 2. Churches, Lodges, and Dry Organizing 23 3. Modular Collective Action in a Federalist System 65 4. Legislative Supremacy and the Definition of Movement Goals 89 5. Political Alignments, Party Systems, and Prohibition 122 6. The Dynamics of Local Gradualism in the States 153 7. Turning Moderates into Radicals 182 8. Local Gradualism and American Social Movements 198 Notes 219 Selected Bibliography 301 Index 317
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Duke University Press Before the Nation Kokugaku and the Imagining of
Book SynopsisDeparting from earlier studies of kokugaku (which means "the study of our country"), this title considers how three of the more marginalized participants in the movement challenged its principal founder and engaged its fundamental concerns about what defines the Japanese nation and unifies those within it.Trade Review“Before the Nation is a significant addition to the field of Japanese intellectual history and a very fine book.”—Leslie Pincus, author of Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics“In Before the Nation Susan L. Burns offers rock-solid research on a crucial topic in the intellectual history of state-formation and nationalism in Japan.”—J. Victor Koschmann, author of Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar JapanTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Between Community and the Nation 1 1 Late Tokugawa Society and the Crisis of Community 16 2 Before the Kojikiden: The Divine Age Narrative in Tokugawa Japan 35 3 Motoori Norinaga: Discovering Japan 68 4 Ueda Akinari: History and Community 102 5 Fujitani Mitsue: The Poetics of Community 131 6 Tachibana Moribe: Cosmology and Community 158 7 National Literature, Intellectual History, and the New Kokugaku 187 Conclusion: Imagined Japan(s) 220 Appendix: "Reading" the Kojiki 227 Notes 231 Works Cited 259 Index 271
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Duke University Press Before the Nation
Book SynopsisExploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means 'the study of our country.” Departing from earlier studies of kokugaku that focused on intellectuals whose work has been valorized by modern scholars, Burns seeks to recover the multiple ways 'Japan' as social and cultural identity began to be imagined before modernity.Central to Burns''s analysis is Motoori Norinaga’s Kojikiden, arguably the most important intellectual work of Japan''s early modern period. Burns situates the Kojikiden as one in a series of attempts to analyze and interpret the mythohistories dating from the early eighth century, the Kojiki and Nihon shoki. Norinaga saw these texts as keys to an original, authentic, and idyllic Japan that existed before being tainted by 'flaweTrade Review“Before the Nation is a significant addition to the field of Japanese intellectual history and a very fine book.”—Leslie Pincus, author of Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics“In Before the Nation Susan L. Burns offers rock-solid research on a crucial topic in the intellectual history of state-formation and nationalism in Japan.”—J. Victor Koschmann, author of Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar JapanTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Between Community and the Nation 1 1 Late Tokugawa Society and the Crisis of Community 16 2 Before the Kojikiden: The Divine Age Narrative in Tokugawa Japan 35 3 Motoori Norinaga: Discovering Japan 68 4 Ueda Akinari: History and Community 102 5 Fujitani Mitsue: The Poetics of Community 131 6 Tachibana Moribe: Cosmology and Community 158 7 National Literature, Intellectual History, and the New Kokugaku 187 Conclusion: Imagined Japan(s) 220 Appendix: "Reading" the Kojiki 227 Notes 231 Works Cited 259 Index 271
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Duke University Press Public Affairs
Book SynopsisCollection of essays analyzing political sex scandals and U.S. political culture from a variety of theoretical anglesTrade Review“People interested in political theory, political culture, mass media, and civil liberties will find this a most interesting and provocative volume. Informed by a diversity of theoretical frames, Public Affairs also offers several unifying themes, including the difficulty of drawing bright-line boundaries between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ realms.”—Norman L. Rosenberg, author of Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel“Public Affairs is a lively, timely exploration of sex scandals and their significance to a democratic public. A provocative joining of cultural studies to political science, this collection is especially important to feminist scholars for its examination of the ways that scandals redefine the public/private distinction. It will also challenge scholars of democracy for its stimulating treatment of scandal and citizen agency.”—Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Sex Scandals and Discourses of Power / Paul Apostolidis and Juliet A. Williams 1 1. Sex Scandals in U.S. Politics: Theoretical, Social, and Historical Contexts Normal Sins: Sex Scandal Narratives as Institutional Morality Tales / Joshua Gamson 39 Power and Corruption: Political Competition and the Scandal Market / Theodore J. Lowi 69 Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn't / Joshua D. Rothman 101 2. Class, Race, and Gender in the Clinton Scandal On "The Dalliances of the Commander in Chief": Christian Right Scandal Narratives in Post-Fordist America / Paul Apostolidis 137 Narrating Clinton's Impeachment: Race, the Right, and Allegories of the Sixties / George Shulman 167 Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House / Anna Marie Smith 185 3. Privacy and Publicity, and the Conditions of Democratic Citizenship Privacy in the (Too Much) Information Age / Juliet A. Williams 213 It Was the Spectacle, Stupid: The Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Affair and the Politics of the Gaze / Jeremy Varon 232 Making (It) Public / Jodi Dean 259 Notes on Contributors 273 Index 275
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Duke University Press Watching Jim Crow
Book SynopsisA critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights eraTrade Review“Watching Jim Crow is a highly original, sophisticated, and important piece of scholarship that will undoubtedly influence a variety of fields ranging from legal theory to cultural studies. One of the most striking things about this work is the compelling way it crosses barriers that have blinkered both scholarly and commonsense thinking about law, media, and culture.”—Thomas Streeter, author of Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States“Watching Jim Crow is a powerful blend of memory, history, and careful analysis. For those who lived through the days and years chronicled here, especially those of us who lived in the places Steven D. Classen studies, the memories are painful, the history is precise, the analysis essential. Classen’s strong recognition that television is something people do is a challenge not only for scholars, but for policymakers and citizens who recognize how much remains to be done.”—Horace Newcomb, director of the George Foster Peabody Awards at the University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Reconstruction 1 1: Broadcast Foundations 31 2: Consuming Civil Rights 52 3: Trouble around the Ponderosa 75 4: Programming/Regulating Whiteness 107 5: Blacking out: Remembering TV and the Sixties 140 6: Not Forgetting 174 Appendix: Chronology 197 Notes 205 Bibliography 245 Index 263
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Duke University Press The Costa Rica Reader
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary anthology that includes many primary resources never before published in English.Trade Review"a poignant resource for anyone with an eye on the country, whether traveler, grizzled Costa Rica oldtimer, flash-in-the-pan tourist, historian, or Costa Rican national." The Tico TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 I. Birth of an Exception? 9 II. Coffee Nation 55 III. Popular Culture and Social Policy 99 IV. Democratic Enigma 139 V. The Costa Rican Dream 183 VI. Other Cultures and Outer Reaches 229 VII. Working Paradise 275 VIII. Tropical Soundings 319 Suggestions for Further Reading 367 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 373 Index 379
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Duke University Press Policing Chinese Politics
Book SynopsisAt once a history of policing in China, as well as a political history of "the nation" in the 20th century.Trade Review“Eric Hobsbawm, with some irony and much love for the history profession, once remarked that ‘theoreticians of all kinds circle around the peaceful herds of historians as they graze on their rich pastures of primary sources.’ He endorsed the encircling of those pastures. Michael Dutton is one of those social science theoreticians who graze on the same rich fields, but at the same time he takes Asian studies and history into new and fascinating areas.”—Børge Bakken, author of The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China “Michael Dutton’s Policing Chinese Politics is a work of deeply committed political scholarship. It will be of great interest to scholars of Chinese politics and to historians and critics of the socialist movement.”—Piers Beirne, Department of Criminology, University of Southern MaineTable of ContentsPreface vii Introduction: A Theoretical Explanation 1 1. Friends and Enemies: The War Within 23 2. From Class to Nation: Limiting the Excess in Yan’an 71 3. The Government of Struggle: Institutions of the Binary 133 4. The Years That Burned 197 5. The End of the (Mass) Line? Chinese Politics in the Era of the Contract 247 Concluding Reflections 301 Glossary 317 Notes 331 References 375 Index 395
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Duke University Press Political Cultures in the Andes 17501950
Book SynopsisCollection of essays explores the processes by which political power was constructed in four Andean republics--Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia--during the two formative centuries of nation-state formation.Trade Review“Political Cultures in the Andes is an extraordinary book, one of those books that both provides fresh perspectives and brings together significant trends that have been in the air recently. The volume is full of provocative and interesting essays. This is a must-read for historians interested in the Andes or politics in Latin America more generally.”—Peter Guardino, author of The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850“[The issues] are fascinating and central to any understanding of power relations in Latin American societies. For those interested in the struggle, this book is an excellent place to start. It should stimulate animated discussions in upper-level courses and graduate seminars.” -- W. John Green * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Acknowledgments xi The Long and the Short of It: A Pragmatic Perspective on Political Cultures, Especially for the Modern History of the Andes / Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada 1 Is Political Culture Good to Think? / Alan Knight 25 How Interest and Values Seldom Come Alone, or: The Utility of a Pragmatic Perspective on Political Culture / Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada 58 Part One State- and Nation-Building Projects and Their Limitations 69 Civilize or Control:? The Lingering Impact of Bourbon Urban Reforms / Charles F. Walker 74 A Break with the Past? Santa Cruz and the Constitution / Cristobal Aljovin de Losada 96 The Tax Man Cometh: Local Authorities and the Battle Over Taxes in Peru, 1885–1906 / Carlos Contreras 116 “Under the dominion of the Indian”: Rural Mobilization, the Law, and Revolutionary Nationalism in Bolivia in the 1940s / Laura Gotkowitz 137 Part Two Ethnicity, Gender, and the Construction of Power: Exclusionary Strategies and the Struggle for Citizenship 159 “Free Men of All Colors” in New Granada: Identity and Obedience before Independence / Margarita Garrido 165 Silencing African Descent: Caribbean Columbia and Early Nation Building, 1810–1828 / Aline Helg 184 The Making of Ecuador’s Pueblo Catolico, 1861–1875 / Derek Williams 207 Redeemed Indians, Barbarized Cholos: Crafting Neocolonial Modernity in Liberal Bolivia, 1900–1910 / Brooke Larson 230 Part Three The Local, the Peripheral, and the Network: Redefining the Boundaries of Popular Representation in Public Arena 253 Andean Political Imagination in the Late Eighteenth Century / Sergio Serulnikov 257 Public Opinions and Public Spheres in Late-Nineteenth-Century Peru: A Multicolored Web in a Tattered Cloth / Nils Jacobsen 278 The Local Limitations to a National Political Movement: Gaitan and Gaitansimo in Antioquia / Mary Roldan 301 Concluding Remarks: Andean Inflections of Latin American Political Cultures / Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada 324 Bibliography 337 Contributors 373 Index 377
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MD - Duke University Press Venezuelas Bolivarian Democracy
Book SynopsisLooking beyond Hugo Chávez and the national government, contributors examine forms of democracy involving ordinary Venezuelans: in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and other forums.Trade Review“Taken together, these chapters make a number of important observations…. The book’s main contribution is therefore to highlight some of the tensions that exist within contemporary Venezuelan democracy, and to show the diverse ways in which citizen participation expresses itself. The strength of the book is that it shows that serious empirical research on Venezuela is being undertaken.” - Oliver Heath, Journal of Latin American Studies“[T]he authors of this volume provide rich material that sheds light on the novelty of the strategies pursued by Chavista leaders and the knotty issues brought to the fore by their initiatives.” - Steve Ellner, Latin American Politics and Society“Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy makes it clear that, while transforming the political landscape, the Chávez era also embodies important continuities with the country’s recent past. The serious problems that the country faces and the social movements that support Chávez did not emerge overnight; they are rooted in the inequities of the oil economy that took hold during the twentieth century. This book is a must read for anybody trying to make sense of the ongoing process of change that is remaking Venezuela.”—Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela“This book evaluates Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela with a clear eye. Through nuanced attention to new empirical research in a rapidly changing context—who speaks, what people believe, who decides, and how power works—it offers a framework for analyzing the intertwined democratic and nondemocratic aspects of politics as it is practiced and lived. This multisited approach—looking from neighborhoods to media, activists to government institutions—could be applied with equal success to the postrevolutionary regimes of Cárdenas or Castro, the populist governments of Vargas or Perón, and the liberal democracies of the present.”—Jeffrey W. Rubin, Boston University“Taken together, these chapters make a number of important observations…. The book’s main contribution is therefore to highlight some of the tensions that exist within contemporary Venezuelan democracy, and to show the diverse ways in which citizen participation expresses itself. The strength of the book is that it shows that serious empirical research on Venezuela is being undertaken.” -- Oliver Heath * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsForeword: Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy / Julia Buxton ix Introduction: Participation, Politics, and Culture—Emerging Fragments of Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy / David Smilde 1 1. Defying the Iron Law of Oligarchy I: How Does "El Pueblo" Conceive of Democracy? / Daniel Hellinger 28 2. Participatory Democracy in Venezuela: Origins, Ideas, and Implementation / Margarita López Maya and Luis E. Lander 58 3. Urban Land Committees: Co-operation, Autonomy, and Protagonism / María Pilar García-Guadilla 80 4. Catia Sees You: Community Television, Clientelism, and the State in the Chávez Era / Naomi Schiller 105 5. Radio Bemba in an Age of Electronic Media: The Dynamics of Popular Communication in Chávez's Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes 133 6. "We Are Still Rebels": The Challenge of Popular History in Bolivarian Venezuela / Alejandro Velasco 159 7. The Misiones of the Chávez Government / Kirk A. Hawkins, Guillermo Rosas, and Michael E. Johnson 188 8. Defying the Iron Law of Oligarchy II: Debating Democracy Online in Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger 221 9. Venezuela's Telenovela: Polarization and Political Discourse in Cosita Rica / Carolina Acosta-Alzuru 246 10. The Color of Mobs: Racial Politics, Ethnopopulism, and Representation in the Chávez Era / Luis Duno Gottberg 273 11. Taking Possession of Public Discourse: Women and the Practice of Political Poetry in Venezuela / Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols 300 12. Christianity and Politics in Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Catholics, Evangelicals, and Political Polarization / David Smilde and Coraly Pagan 317 Afterword: Chavismo and Venezuelan Democracy in a New Decade / Daniel Hellinger 342 References 345 Index
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Duke University Press Challenging Social Inequality
Book SynopsisIn Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure.Trade Review"Challenging Social Inequality is the most comprehensive study to date of the agrarian question in Brazil and of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers, the social movement that has challenged land concentration, social inequality, and poverty in Brazil since the mid-1980s. The contributors, most of whom are Brazilian, examine the movement's history, organization, and strategies, and its interaction with the state, political parties, and other social movements. In addition, Miguel Carter addresses complex and controversial issues in the introduction and conclusion, further expanding our understanding of contemporary Brazil."—Leslie Bethell, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford"This collection offers as definitive a history of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers as is now possible. The contributors examine the movement's founding and rapid expansion in every state; its conflicts with landowners and political authorities; its methods, grassroots practices, and achievements in seeking to impart the arts of husbandry, equality, and democracy to the rural third of the nation, which is largely landless, hungry, and bereft of the means of citizenship. Challenging Social Inequality is a complete guide to a social movement of enormous importance, one comparable to the civil rights movement in the United States particularly with respect to its capacity to mobilize, raise consciousness, and bring about change."—Ralph Della Cava, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University"Carter’s 2015 volume is the most comprehensive and extensive treatment of the MST to date, bringing together prominent scholars that have been working with and conducting research on the MST over the past three decades." -- Rebecca Tarlau * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"The interdisciplinary nature of the collection—featuring geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists, as well as political scientists—offers readers many well-researched, diverse theoretical perspectives on the largest social movement active in Latin America. The various chapters from Brazilian scholars will acquaint readers with first-rate social science scholarship that Carter himself translated from the original Portuguese. This volume is the most complete book on what can be considered Latin America’s most innovative social movement." -- Anthony Pahnke * Perspectives on Politics *"[W]ell written, clearly organized, and based on significant and in-depth research conducted at different times and across politically and ecologically diverse places. Chapters are linked by a clear, shared focus on social inequality and a similar yet geographically and temporally grounded manifestation and analysis of problems and struggles.” -- Cathy A. Rakowski * Rural Sociology *"Challenging Social Inequality shows disciplinary and scholarly breadth. . . . This volume—launched early in the [Worker's Party] decline—contributes greatly to post-2018 political debates and MST history writ large." -- Travis Knoll * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Figures, Maps, and Tables xiii List of Abbreviations xvii An Overview / Miguel Carter xxiii 1. Social Inequality, Agrarian Reform, and Democracy in Brazil / Miguel Carter 1 Part I. The Agrarian Question and Rural Social Movements in Brazil 2. The Agrarian Question and Agribusiness in Brazil / Ghilherme Costa Delgado 43 3. Rural Social Movements, Struggles for Rights, and Land Reform in Contemporary Brazilian History / Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros 68 4. Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission, and the Mobilization for Agrarian Reform / Ivo Poletto 90 Part II. MST History and Struggle for Land 5. The Formation and Territorialization of the MST in Brazil / Bernardo Mançano Fernandes 115 6. Origins and Consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul / Miguel Carter 149 7. Under the Black Tarp: The Legitimacy and Dynamics of Land Occupations in Pernambuco / Lygia Maria Sigaud 182 8. From Posseiro to Sem Terra: The Impact of MST Land Struggles in the State of Pará / Gabriel Ondetti, Emmanuel Wambergue, and José Batista Conçalves Afonso 202 Part III. MST's Agricultural Settlements 9. The Struggle on Land: Source of Growth, Innovation, and Constant Challenge for the MST / Miguel Carter and Horacio Martins de Carvalho 229 10. Rural Settlements and the MST in São Paulo: From Social Conflict to the Diversity of Local Impacts / Sonia Maria P. P. Bergamasco and Luiz Antonio Cabello Noder 274 11. Community Building in an MST Settlement in Northeast Brazil / Elena Calvo-González 293 12. MST Settlements in Pernambuco: Identity and the Politics of Resistance / Wendy Wolford 310 Part IV. The MST, Politics, and Society in Brazil 13. Working with Governments: The MST's Experience with the Cardoso and Lula Administrations / Sue Branford 331 14. The MST and the Rule of Law in Brazil / George Mészáros 351 15. Beyond the MST: The Impact on Brazilian Social Movements / Marcelo Carvalho Rosa 375 16. Challenging Social Inequality: Contention, Context, and Consequences / Miguel Carter 390 Epilogue. Broken Promise: The Land Reform Debacle Under the PT Governments / Miguel Carter 413 References 429 Contributors 469 Index 473
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Duke University Press Challenging Social Inequality
Book SynopsisIn Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure.Trade Review"Challenging Social Inequality is the most comprehensive study to date of the agrarian question in Brazil and of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers, the social movement that has challenged land concentration, social inequality, and poverty in Brazil since the mid-1980s. The contributors, most of whom are Brazilian, examine the movement's history, organization, and strategies, and its interaction with the state, political parties, and other social movements. In addition, Miguel Carter addresses complex and controversial issues in the introduction and conclusion, further expanding our understanding of contemporary Brazil."—Leslie Bethell, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford"This collection offers as definitive a history of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers as is now possible. The contributors examine the movement's founding and rapid expansion in every state; its conflicts with landowners and political authorities; its methods, grassroots practices, and achievements in seeking to impart the arts of husbandry, equality, and democracy to the rural third of the nation, which is largely landless, hungry, and bereft of the means of citizenship. Challenging Social Inequality is a complete guide to a social movement of enormous importance, one comparable to the civil rights movement in the United States particularly with respect to its capacity to mobilize, raise consciousness, and bring about change."—Ralph Della Cava, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University"Carter’s 2015 volume is the most comprehensive and extensive treatment of the MST to date, bringing together prominent scholars that have been working with and conducting research on the MST over the past three decades." -- Rebecca Tarlau * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"The interdisciplinary nature of the collection—featuring geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists, as well as political scientists—offers readers many well-researched, diverse theoretical perspectives on the largest social movement active in Latin America. The various chapters from Brazilian scholars will acquaint readers with first-rate social science scholarship that Carter himself translated from the original Portuguese. This volume is the most complete book on what can be considered Latin America’s most innovative social movement." -- Anthony Pahnke * Perspectives on Politics *"[W]ell written, clearly organized, and based on significant and in-depth research conducted at different times and across politically and ecologically diverse places. Chapters are linked by a clear, shared focus on social inequality and a similar yet geographically and temporally grounded manifestation and analysis of problems and struggles.” -- Cathy A. Rakowski * Rural Sociology *"Challenging Social Inequality shows disciplinary and scholarly breadth. . . . This volume—launched early in the [Worker's Party] decline—contributes greatly to post-2018 political debates and MST history writ large." -- Travis Knoll * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Figures, Maps, and Tables xiii List of Abbreviations xvii An Overview / Miguel Carter xxiii 1. Social Inequality, Agrarian Reform, and Democracy in Brazil / Miguel Carter 1 Part I. The Agrarian Question and Rural Social Movements in Brazil 2. The Agrarian Question and Agribusiness in Brazil / Ghilherme Costa Delgado 43 3. Rural Social Movements, Struggles for Rights, and Land Reform in Contemporary Brazilian History / Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros 68 4. Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission, and the Mobilization for Agrarian Reform / Ivo Poletto 90 Part II. MST History and Struggle for Land 5. The Formation and Territorialization of the MST in Brazil / Bernardo Mançano Fernandes 115 6. Origins and Consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul / Miguel Carter 149 7. Under the Black Tarp: The Legitimacy and Dynamics of Land Occupations in Pernambuco / Lygia Maria Sigaud 182 8. From Posseiro to Sem Terra: The Impact of MST Land Struggles in the State of Pará / Gabriel Ondetti, Emmanuel Wambergue, and José Batista Conçalves Afonso 202 Part III. MST's Agricultural Settlements 9. The Struggle on Land: Source of Growth, Innovation, and Constant Challenge for the MST / Miguel Carter and Horacio Martins de Carvalho 229 10. Rural Settlements and the MST in São Paulo: From Social Conflict to the Diversity of Local Impacts / Sonia Maria P. P. Bergamasco and Luiz Antonio Cabello Noder 274 11. Community Building in an MST Settlement in Northeast Brazil / Elena Calvo-González 293 12. MST Settlements in Pernambuco: Identity and the Politics of Resistance / Wendy Wolford 310 Part IV. The MST, Politics, and Society in Brazil 13. Working with Governments: The MST's Experience with the Cardoso and Lula Administrations / Sue Branford 331 14. The MST and the Rule of Law in Brazil / George Mészáros 351 15. Beyond the MST: The Impact on Brazilian Social Movements / Marcelo Carvalho Rosa 375 16. Challenging Social Inequality: Contention, Context, and Consequences / Miguel Carter 390 Epilogue. Broken Promise: The Land Reform Debacle Under the PT Governments / Miguel Carter 413 References 429 Contributors 469 Index 473
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Duke University Press We Created Chávez
Book SynopsisThis history of Venezuelan politics from below tells how militants, students, women, Afro-indigeneous peoples, and the working-class brought about Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and, ultimately, brought Hugo Chávez to power.Trade Review"We Created Chávez provides a systematic, bottom-up approach to Venezuelan politics from 1958 to the present. It offers a much-needed new perspective on Hugo Chávez's rise to power. Writing in a lively style and demonstrating a thorough command of the issues and personalities in recent Venezuelan history, George Ciccariello-Maher has produced a book essential to understanding the phenomenon of 'Chavismo,' which has attracted widespread interest throughout the world."—Steve Ellner, author of Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon"In the United States, accounts of Venezuela have been fixated on the figure of Hugo Chávez. We Created Chávez breaks with this obsession, instead showing the dynamic and contradictory relationship that exists between Venezuela's president and the social forces that gave rise to and sustain the government. It is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the internal dynamics of social change underway in Venezuela today."—Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela“Ciccariello-Maher’s history of the Venezuelan left is essential to understanding the Chávez era.” -- Dorothy Kronick * The New Republic *“Terrific.” -- Greg Grandin * The Nation *“[A] crisply written social and political history of the critical decades leading up to Chávez's election in 1998. . . . For those who want to see the revolution continue, Ciccariello-Maher has made a critical contribution to our understanding, which is in and of itself enough to recommend this book without reservation. But more than that, We Created Chávez brilliantly demonstrates how social history scholarship can mine the lived experiences of rank-and-file activists and radical leaders for precious stones, and then set those gems in a visible and rigorous theoretical frame that allows us to see history in motion.” -- Todd Chretien * Socialist Worker *“I've been looking for this book for years.” -- Steve Henshall * Socialist Review *"In addition to providing readers with an irreplaceable genealogy of the Revolutionary Left in Venezuela and its role in the making of the present, We Created Chávez deftly illustrates the tensions between constituent and constituted power that make the Bolivarian Revolution a dialectical process rather than a presidential term in office. We Created Chávez is also a masterful contribution to a thankfully growing body of work responding to dominant portrayals of the Bolivarian process in Venezuela enraptured or enraged by the figure of el Comandante.” -- Donald V. Kingsbury * Theory & Event *“In We Created Chávez, George Ciccariello-Maher offers a masterful ‘people’s history’ of Venezuela…. Through Ciccariello-Maher’s analysis, a Venezuela easily and often ignored both by academia and by the popular press becomes visible. It is this Venezuela from which post-Chávez popular politics will be forged; Ciccariello-Maher offers valuable insight into what the coming years may bring.” -- Erica S. Simmons * Latin American Politics and Society *"We Created Chavez is likely to be a point of reference for anyone seeking to assess chavismo as a seminal case of popular resistance to neoliberal globalization, as well as its relevance to twenty-first-century socialism." -- Daniel Hellinger * Hispanic American Historical Review *"If . . . you want an engaging book that, in the service of a revolutionist mythos, narrates the actions and ideas of many people often neglected by scholars, you may appreciate We Created Chavez." -- Jonathan Eastwood * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Map of Venezuela xii Introduction. What People? Whose History? 1 1. A Guerrilla History 22 2. Reconnecting with the Masses 45 3. Birth of the "Tupamaros" 67 First Interlude. The Caracazo: History Splits in Two 88 4. Sergio's Blood: Student Struggles from the University to the Streets 105 5. Manuelita's Boots: Women between Two Movements 126 6. JoséLeonardo's Body and the Collapse of Mestizaje 146 Second Interlude. Every Eleventh Has Its Thirteenth 166 7. Venezuelan Workers: Aristocracy or Revolutionary Class? 180 8. Oligarchs Tremble! Peasant Struggles at the Margins of the State 200 9. A New Proletariat? Informal Labor and the Revolutionary Streets 218 Conclusion. Dual Power against the Magical State 234 Notes 257 Index 307
£27.90
Duke University Press Visionary Pragmatism
Book SynopsisRomand Coles's new mode of scholarship and political practice called "visionary pragmatism" blends theory with practice in the generation of new transformative responses to contemporary political and ecological crises.Trade Review"The extraordinary importance of this exhilarating book lies in demonstrating that, at a time when electoral democracy seems thoroughly corrupt . . . , extreme, high or abstract political theory can inspire and in turn be inspired by extreme, concrete grassroots political activism. . . . Coles has presented a remarkable theory and practice of radical democratic activism based on recent developments in brain science and dynamic systems theory and on his own experience." -- Eugene W. Holland * Theory & Event *"In Visionary Pragmatism, Romand Coles deftly weaves neuroscience and physics together with palpable accounts of grassroots activism to develop one of the most original, subtle, and actionable theories of radical democracy in neoliberal times. This charges our present political moment with an all-too-rare sense of abundant and ubiquitous democratic possibility, but also calls the role of the academic therein starkly to account." -- Emily Beausoleil * Journal of Politics *"Coles wagers that stringent, molecular-level concentration on the affectively differentiated physicality of ordinary, participatory democratic encounters can restimulate radical imagination and commitment. His uniquely capacious gambit weaves together a range of political investments that theorists too often seem to feel compelled to choose between, highlighting either the fleeting moment of natality, the subtle subversions effected by counterhegemonic cultural noise, or the grind of organizing in the trenches. Coles, unlike others, wants (us) to have all this—and more. . . . [T]he text itself enacts a compelling form of dramatization through Coles’s daring authorial style." -- Paul Apostolidis * Democratic Theory *"Visionary Pragmatism opens new doors to walk through as we listen, experiment, and forge critical assemblages out of the debris of neoliberal hegemony. . . . This book is replete with wisdom and experimental ideas. The pluralised, critical 'we' forming today across classes, faiths, regions, and genders can be enlivened by the spiritual inspirations it offers." -- William E. Connolly * Democratic Theory *"Romand Coles’s Visionary Pragmatism is an extraordinary work: brilliant and subtle, fiercely passionate and carefully argued, it is by turns apocalyptic and reassuring, romantic and deromanticizing, vertiginous and profoundly grounding. Coles contends that our world will not survive the depredations of neoliberalism unless we cultivate a radical democratic habitus grounded in resonant receptivity. . . . His argument is vital, exhilarating, and persuasive." -- Jade Schiff * Democratic Theory *“[Visionary Pragmatism] is a deeply personal work. As a reader, I came away with a clear sense of—and respect for—Coles’s struggle to orient his own life and career in a way that is consistent with his convictions about what political theory can be, and with the need to ground his theorizing in forms of activism and everyday life that will both nourish and inform it.” -- John M. Meyer * Perspectives on Politics *"Visionary Pragmatism is wonderfully expansive in its potential for retheorizing the very activity of political theory in an effort to make it receptive and perhaps even reconciled to the activity of political activism." -- Ani Chen * William James Studies *“Coles's Visionary Pragmatism ought to be on the reading list for ecologically-oriented academics from every discipline as well as political activists and anyone who wishes to begin cultivating the sorts of ‘game-transformative practices’ that will allow us to rethink, resist, and reshape the dominant order.” -- Tess Varner * Environmental Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Theorizing from and Traveling toward a Radical Democratic Habitas 1 1. The Neuropolitical Habitus of Resonant Receptive Democracy 31 2. From Mega-circulatory Power to Polyface Flows 71 3. System Dynamics and a Radical Politics of Transformative Co-optation 115 4. Shock Democracy and Wormhole Hope in Catastrophic Times 161 Epilogue 193 Notes 197 Bibliography 211 Index 219
£76.50
Duke University Press Visionary Pragmatism
Book SynopsisRomand Coles's new mode of scholarship and political practice called "visionary pragmatism" blends theory with practice in the generation of new transformative responses to contemporary political and ecological crises.Trade Review"The extraordinary importance of this exhilarating book lies in demonstrating that, at a time when electoral democracy seems thoroughly corrupt . . . , extreme, high or abstract political theory can inspire and in turn be inspired by extreme, concrete grassroots political activism. . . . Coles has presented a remarkable theory and practice of radical democratic activism based on recent developments in brain science and dynamic systems theory and on his own experience." -- Eugene W. Holland * Theory & Event *"In Visionary Pragmatism, Romand Coles deftly weaves neuroscience and physics together with palpable accounts of grassroots activism to develop one of the most original, subtle, and actionable theories of radical democracy in neoliberal times. This charges our present political moment with an all-too-rare sense of abundant and ubiquitous democratic possibility, but also calls the role of the academic therein starkly to account." -- Emily Beausoleil * Journal of Politics *"Coles wagers that stringent, molecular-level concentration on the affectively differentiated physicality of ordinary, participatory democratic encounters can restimulate radical imagination and commitment. His uniquely capacious gambit weaves together a range of political investments that theorists too often seem to feel compelled to choose between, highlighting either the fleeting moment of natality, the subtle subversions effected by counterhegemonic cultural noise, or the grind of organizing in the trenches. Coles, unlike others, wants (us) to have all this—and more. . . . [T]he text itself enacts a compelling form of dramatization through Coles’s daring authorial style." -- Paul Apostolidis * Democratic Theory *"Visionary Pragmatism opens new doors to walk through as we listen, experiment, and forge critical assemblages out of the debris of neoliberal hegemony. . . . This book is replete with wisdom and experimental ideas. The pluralised, critical 'we' forming today across classes, faiths, regions, and genders can be enlivened by the spiritual inspirations it offers." -- William E. Connolly * Democratic Theory *"Romand Coles’s Visionary Pragmatism is an extraordinary work: brilliant and subtle, fiercely passionate and carefully argued, it is by turns apocalyptic and reassuring, romantic and deromanticizing, vertiginous and profoundly grounding. Coles contends that our world will not survive the depredations of neoliberalism unless we cultivate a radical democratic habitus grounded in resonant receptivity. . . . His argument is vital, exhilarating, and persuasive." -- Jade Schiff * Democratic Theory *“[Visionary Pragmatism] is a deeply personal work. As a reader, I came away with a clear sense of—and respect for—Coles’s struggle to orient his own life and career in a way that is consistent with his convictions about what political theory can be, and with the need to ground his theorizing in forms of activism and everyday life that will both nourish and inform it.” -- John M. Meyer * Perspectives on Politics *"Visionary Pragmatism is wonderfully expansive in its potential for retheorizing the very activity of political theory in an effort to make it receptive and perhaps even reconciled to the activity of political activism." -- Ani Chen * William James Studies *“Coles's Visionary Pragmatism ought to be on the reading list for ecologically-oriented academics from every discipline as well as political activists and anyone who wishes to begin cultivating the sorts of ‘game-transformative practices’ that will allow us to rethink, resist, and reshape the dominant order.” -- Tess Varner * Environmental Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Theorizing from and Traveling toward a Radical Democratic Habitas 1 1. The Neuropolitical Habitus of Resonant Receptive Democracy 31 2. From Mega-circulatory Power to Polyface Flows 71 3. System Dynamics and a Radical Politics of Transformative Co-optation 115 4. Shock Democracy and Wormhole Hope in Catastrophic Times 161 Epilogue 193 Notes 197 Bibliography 211 Index 219
£22.49
Duke University Press Facing the Planetary
Book SynopsisWilliam E. Connolly expands his influential work on democratic pluralism to confront the perils of climate change by calling on us to deepen our attachment to the planet and to create a worldwide coalition of people from all demographics to contest the forces that prevent us from addressing climate change.Trade Review"... theorists will find plenty to unpack here. Recommended. Graduate students through faculty." -- R. J. Meagher * Choice *"Connolly’s analysis of planetary calamities and proposal for a politics of swarming merit attention. The book effectively integrates a variety of sources, including from political theory, social theory, philosophy, theology, economics, geology, biology and paleontology, and covers a wide range of topics, reinvigorating discussion regarding not only the current ecological problems, but also what can be done given the prospect of a seemingly apocalyptic future." -- Nikhilendu Deb * LSE Review of Books *"Facing the Planetary is a timely book. It underscores what is daily becoming ever more obvious." -- David W. Orr * Perspectives on Politics *"William Connolly aspires to make us see our fragile and beautiful planet from the temporal distance the Anthropocene imposes. He does so by plunging, with intellectual courage, theoretical sophistication, and deeply felt appreciation for the human and nonhuman forces that tie human destines to what he calls 'the planetary.'" -- Nidesh Lawtoo * Postmodern Culture *"Bill Connolly’s Facing the Planetary buzzes with a swarm of innovative concepts, testing both the limits and the creative powers of contemporary political theory to address the fragility of the human condition in the Anthropocene." -- Anatoli Ignatov * Contemporary Political Theory *Table of ContentsPrelude: Myth and the Planetary 1 1. Sociocentrism, the Anthropocene, and the Planetary 15 2. Species Evolution and Cultural Creativity 37 3. Creativity and the Scars of Being 63 4. Distributed Agencies and Bumpy Temporalities 89 5. The Politics of Swarming and the General Strike 121 6. Postcolonial Ecologies, Extinction Events, and Entangled Humanism 151 Postlude: Capitalism and the Planetary 175 Acknowledgments 199 Notes 201 Bibliography 217 Index 225
£90.10
Duke University Press Selected Political Writings The Great Moving
Book SynopsisWritten between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays are Stuart Hall's best known and most important writings that directly engage with political issues.Trade Review"It’s hard to imagine a better time for the arrival of this book. Political uncertainty and reactionary posturing are a defining feature of recent months. The care and thoughtfulness carried in its pages are very welcome, the sense of context and sharpness of insight feel invaluable. . . . Hall’s writing was always political, but here we find him exercising his prodigious analytical skills on explictly political questions and issues. The result is something to behold. A book that scans across time telling stories that are likely to matter whenever the book is read." -- David Beer * Hong Kong Review of Books *"Hall's metier was to tease out the competing histories, the contradictory political, economic, and social forces condensed within a particular historical moment, an excavation of ideology he called 'conjunctural analysis.' . . . [H]is work is all too timely, for the haphazard project of neoliberalism, justified retroactively by nonsensical appeals to the 'free market,' is as advanced as the decades-long economic decline it magics away with bubbles and rhetoric (GDP balloons; personal wealth stagnates)." -- Michael Robbins * Bookforum *"Stuart Hall’s pen is sharp and well-informed. One does not have to agree with everything he writes to acknowledge this truth. This collection of Hall’s political writings is simultaneously a history, a series of lessons, and a preview of our current situation. It serves as a delightful indication of why he was so widely read when he was alive." -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *"Hall’s work has become especially resonant as Britain has voted for a narrower identity and a more isolationist attitude to the rest of the world.... There is a generosity and literary imagination in his writing—a recognition that humans are complex, contradictory creatures shaped by, among other things, what they believe, where they live, how they shop, and who they sleep with." -- Jessica Loudis * The New Republic *"Hall wrote these essays primarily for contemporaries also seeking to make sense of their particular political contexts, but they now stand as useful and powerful texts of leftist political thought for scholars, activists and students.... Hall’s compelling and analytically rigorous theses are eloquent, precise and exciting to read." -- Max Shock * Political Studies Review *"The editors of this collection have presciently selected a wide spectrum of Hall’s writings to show that while history may not be repeating itself, many issues we presently encounter have been previously reflected upon by Hall.... The struggle between the old and the new underlies Hall’s essays in this collection, and reading through them it becomes again apparent how our present echoes in the past so admirably analysed by Hall." -- Ali Meghji * Cultural Studies *"Selected Political Writings is both a timely an enjoyable read. On the page, and for those of us who were lucky enough to hear him, as a speaker too, Stuart Hall brought the analysis of politics alive in a way which is sorely missed in 2017. These essays provide a sharpness of intellect and warm embrace of analysis that are a positive joy to read, new and afresh or but read in a new times, good and bad, that even Stuart Hall could never have foretold. " -- Mark Perryman * Open Democracy *“Selected Political Writings is a ‘greatest hits’ of political writing from one of postwar Britain’s most consistently interesting, innovative, and perceptive analysts.” -- Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite * H-Ideas, H-Net Reviews *"I have also narrated the effort it took for me to access his work to illustrate the importance of the Selected Writings now being released by Duke University Press. It is an event of profound historical significance that a new generation will be able to begin its political and theoretical education with systematic access to Hall’s writing. . . . Selected Political Writings presents his now canonical analysis of the rise of the right and the strategic impasses of the left beginning in the late 1970s." -- Asad Haider * The Point *"It was one of Hall’s unique gifts to offer analysis of the moment as it unfolded before our eyes. I am sure I am not alone in having found his talks exhilarating in ways I could never quite understand, given that the news he relayed with such energy was almost unremittingly dire. Hall offered his readings as interpretation and self-commentary, tracing his own intellectual path." -- Jacqueline Rose * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Sally Davison, David Featherstone and Bill Schwarz 1 Note on Texts 16 Part 1: The New Left and after 1. The new Conservatism and the old (1957) 18 2. A sense of classlessness (1958) 28 3. The supply of demand (1960) 47 4. The Cuban crisis: trial-run or steps towards peace? (1963) 70 5. Political commitment (1966) 85 6. A world at one with itself (1970) 107 7. The first New Left: life and times (1990) 117 Part 2: Thatcherism 8. Racism and reaction (1978) 142 9. 1970: Birth of the law and order society (1978) 158 10. The great moving right show (1979) 172 11. The 'Little Caesars' of social democracy (1981) 187 12. The empire strikes back (1982) 200 13. The crisis of Labourism (1984) 207 14. The state: socialism's old caretaker (1984) 223 15. Blue election, election blues (1987) 238 16. The meaning of new times (1989) 248 17. And not a shot fired: the end of Thatcherism? (1991) 266 18. Our mongrel selves (1992) 275 Part 3: Neoliberalism 19. The great moving nowhere show (1998) 283 20. New Labour's double-shuffle (2003) 301 21. The neoliberal revolution (2011) 317 Afterword / Michael Rustin 336 Notes on historical figures 354 Index 361
£75.65
Duke University Press The Borders of Europe
Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors examine the perceptions of the staggering refuge and migration crisis in Europe, demonstrating how it stems from migrants exercising their right to the freedom of movement, leads states to create new technologies of regulating human movement, and prompts the questioning of the very idea of Europe.Trade Review"While enriching insights into current European border studies, these perspectives prompt theoretical insights into migration, refugees, and borders on a global scale. . . . Recommended." -- B. Osborne * Choice *“To immerse yourself in [The Borders of “Europe”] is to give timely reflection during a tumultuous time in migration studies, and reminds us that we can yet change course.” -- Paul Clewett * LSE Review of Books *“A great methodological contribution that challenges and changes the ways in which Europe, migration and borders are thought about and analyzed. . . . What is most remarkable is that the contributors to the volume did an amazing job in firmly grounding their sophisticated theoretical analysis in rigorous fieldwork.” -- Özden Ocak * Europe Now Journal *"This collection of original research provides a rich and valuable addition to the literature on migration and borders in contemporary Europe. The Borders of 'Europe' will be of interest to scholars and students working on migration issues in Europe and beyond." -- John Solomos * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Insightful. . . . Nicholas De Genova’s edited collection is an impeccable addition to migration literature in a transdisciplinary and critical way." -- Ali Bilgic * Journal of Contemporary European Studies *"The Borders of 'Europe' provides insight into a wide variety of border-related issues, ranging from Schengen visa applicants’ strategies to agricultural workers’ collective struggles, and informs us of a significant breadth of recent ethnographic research on migration." -- Ipek A. Celik Rappas * German Studies Review *"The Borders of 'Europe' is an indispensable read for fellow scholars interested in migration. The attention that the authors give to historical processes leading up to the current situation is particularly appreciated. . . . The book invites us to further reflect on the subtleties and difficulties of a European identity in these tumultuous political times, and to think about future implications of the continuing fortification of Europe. It is eminently useful for all who are interested in issues of migration, bordering and humanitarianism." -- Sabine De Graaf * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Borders of "Europe" and the European Question / Nicholas De Genova 1 1. "The Secret Is to Look Good on Paper": Appropriating Mobility within and against a Machine of Illegalization / Stephan Scheel 37 2. Rescued and Caught: On the Humanitarian-Security Nexus at Europe's Frontiers / Ruben Andersson 64 3. Liquid Traces: Investigating Deaths of Migrants at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 95 4. The Mediterranean Question: Europe and Its Predicament in the Southern Perpheries / Laia Soto Bermant 120 5. Europe Confronted by Its Expelled Migrants: The Politics of Expelled Migrants' Associations in Africa / Clara Lecadet 141 6. Choucha beyond the Camp: Challenging the Border of Migration Studies / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 165 7. "Europe" from "Here": Syrian Migrants/Refugees in Istanbul and Imagined Migrations into and within "Europe" / Souad Osseiran 185 8. Excessive Migration, Excessive Governance: Border Entanglements in Greek EU-rope / Maurice Stierl 210 9. Dubliners: Unthinking Displacement, Illegality and Refugeeness within Europe's Geographies of Asylum / Fiorenza Picozza 233 10. The "Gran Ghettò: Migrant Labor and Militant Research in Southern Italy / Evelina Gambino 255 11. "We Want to Hear from You": Reporting as Bordering in the Political Space of Europe / Dace Dzenovska 283 References 299 Contributors 341 Index 345
£112.20
Duke University Press Selected Political Writings
Book SynopsisWritten between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays are Stuart Hall's best known and most important writings that directly engage with political issues.Trade Review"It’s hard to imagine a better time for the arrival of this book. Political uncertainty and reactionary posturing are a defining feature of recent months. The care and thoughtfulness carried in its pages are very welcome, the sense of context and sharpness of insight feel invaluable. . . . Hall’s writing was always political, but here we find him exercising his prodigious analytical skills on explictly political questions and issues. The result is something to behold. A book that scans across time telling stories that are likely to matter whenever the book is read." -- David Beer * Hong Kong Review of Books *"Hall's metier was to tease out the competing histories, the contradictory political, economic, and social forces condensed within a particular historical moment, an excavation of ideology he called 'conjunctural analysis.' . . . [H]is work is all too timely, for the haphazard project of neoliberalism, justified retroactively by nonsensical appeals to the 'free market,' is as advanced as the decades-long economic decline it magics away with bubbles and rhetoric (GDP balloons; personal wealth stagnates)." -- Michael Robbins * Bookforum *"Stuart Hall’s pen is sharp and well-informed. One does not have to agree with everything he writes to acknowledge this truth. This collection of Hall’s political writings is simultaneously a history, a series of lessons, and a preview of our current situation. It serves as a delightful indication of why he was so widely read when he was alive." -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *"Hall’s work has become especially resonant as Britain has voted for a narrower identity and a more isolationist attitude to the rest of the world.... There is a generosity and literary imagination in his writing—a recognition that humans are complex, contradictory creatures shaped by, among other things, what they believe, where they live, how they shop, and who they sleep with." -- Jessica Loudis * The New Republic *"Hall wrote these essays primarily for contemporaries also seeking to make sense of their particular political contexts, but they now stand as useful and powerful texts of leftist political thought for scholars, activists and students.... Hall’s compelling and analytically rigorous theses are eloquent, precise and exciting to read." -- Max Shock * Political Studies Review *"The editors of this collection have presciently selected a wide spectrum of Hall’s writings to show that while history may not be repeating itself, many issues we presently encounter have been previously reflected upon by Hall.... The struggle between the old and the new underlies Hall’s essays in this collection, and reading through them it becomes again apparent how our present echoes in the past so admirably analysed by Hall." -- Ali Meghji * Cultural Studies *"Selected Political Writings is both a timely an enjoyable read. On the page, and for those of us who were lucky enough to hear him, as a speaker too, Stuart Hall brought the analysis of politics alive in a way which is sorely missed in 2017. These essays provide a sharpness of intellect and warm embrace of analysis that are a positive joy to read, new and afresh or but read in a new times, good and bad, that even Stuart Hall could never have foretold. " -- Mark Perryman * Open Democracy *“Selected Political Writings is a ‘greatest hits’ of political writing from one of postwar Britain’s most consistently interesting, innovative, and perceptive analysts.” -- Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite * H-Ideas, H-Net Reviews *"I have also narrated the effort it took for me to access his work to illustrate the importance of the Selected Writings now being released by Duke University Press. It is an event of profound historical significance that a new generation will be able to begin its political and theoretical education with systematic access to Hall’s writing. . . . Selected Political Writings presents his now canonical analysis of the rise of the right and the strategic impasses of the left beginning in the late 1970s." -- Asad Haider * The Point *"It was one of Hall’s unique gifts to offer analysis of the moment as it unfolded before our eyes. I am sure I am not alone in having found his talks exhilarating in ways I could never quite understand, given that the news he relayed with such energy was almost unremittingly dire. Hall offered his readings as interpretation and self-commentary, tracing his own intellectual path." -- Jacqueline Rose * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Sally Davison, David Featherstone and Bill Schwarz 1 Note on Texts 16 Part 1: The New Left and after 1. The new Conservatism and the old (1957) 18 2. A sense of classlessness (1958) 28 3. The supply of demand (1960) 47 4. The Cuban crisis: trial-run or steps towards peace? (1963) 70 5. Political commitment (1966) 85 6. A world at one with itself (1970) 107 7. The first New Left: life and times (1990) 117 Part 2: Thatcherism 8. Racism and reaction (1978) 142 9. 1970: Birth of the law and order society (1978) 158 10. The great moving right show (1979) 172 11. The 'Little Caesars' of social democracy (1981) 187 12. The empire strikes back (1982) 200 13. The crisis of Labourism (1984) 207 14. The state: socialism's old caretaker (1984) 223 15. Blue election, election blues (1987) 238 16. The meaning of new times (1989) 248 17. And not a shot fired: the end of Thatcherism? (1991) 266 18. Our mongrel selves (1992) 275 Part 3: Neoliberalism 19. The great moving nowhere show (1998) 283 20. New Labour's double-shuffle (2003) 301 21. The neoliberal revolution (2011) 317 Afterword / Michael Rustin 336 Notes on historical figures 354 Index 361
£21.59
Duke University Press The Borders of Europe Autonomy of Migration
Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors examine the perceptions of the staggering refuge and migration crisis in Europe, demonstrating how it stems from migrants exercising their right to the freedom of movement, leads states to create new technologies of regulating human movement, and prompts the questioning of the very idea of Europe.Trade Review"While enriching insights into current European border studies, these perspectives prompt theoretical insights into migration, refugees, and borders on a global scale. . . . Recommended." -- B. Osborne * Choice *“To immerse yourself in [The Borders of “Europe”] is to give timely reflection during a tumultuous time in migration studies, and reminds us that we can yet change course.” -- Paul Clewett * LSE Review of Books *“A great methodological contribution that challenges and changes the ways in which Europe, migration and borders are thought about and analyzed. . . . What is most remarkable is that the contributors to the volume did an amazing job in firmly grounding their sophisticated theoretical analysis in rigorous fieldwork.” -- Özden Ocak * Europe Now Journal *"This collection of original research provides a rich and valuable addition to the literature on migration and borders in contemporary Europe. The Borders of 'Europe' will be of interest to scholars and students working on migration issues in Europe and beyond." -- John Solomos * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Insightful. . . . Nicholas De Genova’s edited collection is an impeccable addition to migration literature in a transdisciplinary and critical way." -- Ali Bilgic * Journal of Contemporary European Studies *"The Borders of 'Europe' provides insight into a wide variety of border-related issues, ranging from Schengen visa applicants’ strategies to agricultural workers’ collective struggles, and informs us of a significant breadth of recent ethnographic research on migration." -- Ipek A. Celik Rappas * German Studies Review *"The Borders of 'Europe' is an indispensable read for fellow scholars interested in migration. The attention that the authors give to historical processes leading up to the current situation is particularly appreciated. . . . The book invites us to further reflect on the subtleties and difficulties of a European identity in these tumultuous political times, and to think about future implications of the continuing fortification of Europe. It is eminently useful for all who are interested in issues of migration, bordering and humanitarianism." -- Sabine De Graaf * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Borders of "Europe" and the European Question / Nicholas De Genova 1 1. "The Secret Is to Look Good on Paper": Appropriating Mobility within and against a Machine of Illegalization / Stephan Scheel 37 2. Rescued and Caught: On the Humanitarian-Security Nexus at Europe's Frontiers / Ruben Andersson 64 3. Liquid Traces: Investigating Deaths of Migrants at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 95 4. The Mediterranean Question: Europe and Its Predicament in the Southern Perpheries / Laia Soto Bermant 120 5. Europe Confronted by Its Expelled Migrants: The Politics of Expelled Migrants' Associations in Africa / Clara Lecadet 141 6. Choucha beyond the Camp: Challenging the Border of Migration Studies / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 165 7. "Europe" from "Here": Syrian Migrants/Refugees in Istanbul and Imagined Migrations into and within "Europe" / Souad Osseiran 185 8. Excessive Migration, Excessive Governance: Border Entanglements in Greek EU-rope / Maurice Stierl 210 9. Dubliners: Unthinking Displacement, Illegality and Refugeeness within Europe's Geographies of Asylum / Fiorenza Picozza 233 10. The "Gran Ghettò: Migrant Labor and Militant Research in Southern Italy / Evelina Gambino 255 11. "We Want to Hear from You": Reporting as Bordering in the Political Space of Europe / Dace Dzenovska 283 References 299 Contributors 341 Index 345
£27.90
Duke University Press CounterHistory of the Present
Book SynopsisGabriel Rockhill examines the widespread understanding that we are living in an era of globalization that is bound by economic and technological networks and an unquestionable faith in democracy, replacing it with a counter-history that accounts for the diversity of lived experience and offers new ways to imagine the future.Trade Review"A high level polemic attacking the current enthusiasm for the notion of globalization-which Gabriel Rockhill regards as a feature of the political imaginary of our time-Counter-History of the Present will be discussed alongside work by Jameson, Harvey, and Lyotard." -- Andrew Feenberg, author of The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukacs, and the Frankfurt School "In an era that, according to Lyotard, was supposed to have seen the end of the grand narratives, a grand narrative is spreading according to which globalization, technological development, and democracy are irresistibly marching forward in step. Gabriel Rockhill refutes this apologetic discourse not simply by appealing to growing social polarization, to shantytowns condemned to backwardness, to the toppling of democratically elected governments established by self-styled champions of democracy. Counter-History of the Present is also an occasion for critical reflection on a series of theoretical categories (beginning with that of history) that dominant contemporary thought employs in an apologetic and often Eurocentric sense. In this way, Rockhill's book is thus an important reference point for understanding and transforming the present." -- Domenico Losurdo, author of War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Toward a Counter-History of the Present 1 1. A Specter Is Haunting Globalization 11 2. Are We Really Living in a Technological Era? 33 3. What Is the Use of Democracy? Urgency of an Inappropriate Question 51 Afterword. Taking Charge of the Meanings and Direction of History 103 Notes 109 Bibliography 133 Index 143
£67.15
University of Pittsburgh Press State and Society in Conflict
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of the crisis of relations between state and society in five Andean countries from the 1980s to the present.
£46.10
University of Pittsburgh Press The Optic of the State
Book SynopsisThe Optic of the State traces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina.Trade ReviewAs Andermann affirms in his brilliant study on the uses of visual cultures as state policy in Argentina and Brazil at the end of nineteenth century, maps, archives, and museums work a 'civilized' visuality on the 'bare life' of local cultures. This history of violence reveals how the technological gaze colonizes spaces and everyday practices, and reactivates the instruments of imperial capital. - Graciela Montaldo, Columbia University
£42.63
University of Pittsburgh Press Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions
Book SynopsisTransnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions assembles leading scholars to debate the role and impact of transnational actors and presents a promising new research program for the study of this rapidly transforming region.Trade Review“This volume is the first encompassing and theoretically oriented statement on the diverse ways transnational actors and factors could be included in the analysis of change in Central and Eastern Europe. It represents a major common statement by the representatives of the new approach, fills a gap, and will serve as a baseline for further debates in the field.” —Laszlo Bruszt, European University Institute“Offers a wide-ranging assessment of both the mechanisms of transnational influence and the extent of this influence in various issue areas. It will be useful to those new to the area of transnational influence as well as offering detailed essays for those interested in certain specific areas. It is to be commended for its breadth of coverage and willingness to encompass competing views.” —Slavonic and East European Review
£37.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Authoritarian Russia
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to answer these basic questions. Vladimir Gel'man examines regime change in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present day, systematically presenting theoretical and comparative perspectives of the factors that affected regime changes and the authoritarian drift of the country.
£38.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Comics and Memory in Latin America
Book SynopsisThis volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes.Trade Review“This volume makes an exciting contribution to memory studies in Latin America, while responding to a growing interest in graphic fiction from the region. Its geographical scope is admirably broad, and the editors have done an excellent job of bringing together a very diverse set of discussions on the role of comics in politics and memory.” —Joanna Page, University of Cambridge“This volume raises the most important questions about Latin America’s recent past from the unusual angle of comic books and cartooning. The politics of memory, the lingering influence of the Cold War, the awful and ambiguous effects of neoliberalism: historians’ arguments on these crucial topics will be complicated and enriched by the essays in this lovely book.” —Anne Rubenstein, York University.
£38.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Paradox of Power The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia Central Eurasia in Context
Book SynopsisParadox of Power takes careful stock of the varied experiences of Eurasian states to reveal a wide array of surprising outcomes.
£42.75
University of Pittsburgh Press Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation Pitt Latin American Series
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the role played in Latin America's second wave of incorporation by political parties, trade unions, and social movements in five cases: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela.Trade ReviewThis volume offers the most systematic account to date on how political incorporation was approached and carried out during the Latin American region’s turn to the left. Rossi and Silva have done a masterful job at structuring the analysis, while recruiting a dream-team of experts to conduct comparisons across time and countries. The breathtaking theoretical and empirical scope of this volume, as well as its careful analysis of the possible legacies of different incorporation regimes, will make it a must-read for scholars interested in ‘big questions’ that engage politics and the political sociology of the region for years to come."" - Juan Pablo Luna, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
£42.75
Fordham University Press Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity Cultural and
Book SynopsisThe vociferous appetite of colonialism and its insatiable devouring of modern life has taken its toll on this world. This book shows that there has even been a colonization of critical theory, fitting it with prejudices that would limit knowledge to analytic reductions commensurate with Western metaphysics.Trade Review"An exciting and path-breaking work of philosophy ... the authors have not only broken new ground but have also opened up new discursive spaces into which many are likely to follow." -- -Paget Henry Brown University "This is one of the rarest books. It belongs to the new genre of radical philosophical archeology: it resurrects the work of Ernst Cassirer, one of the great German idealists, and puts it to the task of developing a contemporary critical theory which confronts imperialism and neo-colonialism. Against dominant banal historicism, complacent positivism and the humanist apologia of capitalism, 'Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity' constructs a new type of ethical humanism: revived German idealism, black existentialism and radical constitutionalism come together to show how the symbolic and mythic foundations of reality open the possibility of the impossible. Dignity and equality are both impossible and barred in neo-liberal capitalism, yet they create the conditions of all possibility. As Cornell and Panfilio compellingly argue, the impossible has already started happening in the South African struggles against racialised capitalism, in the transformative constitution of the rainbow nation and in the most ancient and contemporary principles of uBuntu. At this point of retreat of the left, Cornell and Panfilio open new directions for critical thinking and offer a call to radical action." -- -Costas Douzinas Birkbeck, University of London
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ME - Fordham University Press Empires Wake
Book SynopsisTraces development of Irish literary modernism from the 1920s to the 1990s through the writings of James Joyce, John Millington Synge, Samuel Beckett, Sean O’Faolain, Frank McCourt, and the Blasket Island autobiographers, Tomas O’Crohan and Maurice O’Sullivan. Considers Irish literature in relation to Irish nationalism and aftermath of British empire.Trade Review"In place of of the conventional aesthetic and chronological distinction between Revivalism, Modernism, and Counter-Revivalism (the latter primarily associated with modes of critical realism and naturalism), Quigley skillfully redeploys the conception of "late modernism" developed by Jed Esty to map the relationship between forms of English modernism and imperial decline." -Journal of Postcolonial Writing "A cogent, compelling, and significant intervention into the field of modern Irish literary studies on the one hand, and an intriguing account of the politics of so-called global or transnational modernism on the other. It's a seasoned and sure-handed piece of scholarly work; Quigley writes with force and precision, never skirting issues that require patient excavation and consideration." -- -Jed Esty University of Pennsylvania "Emerging from a recent wave of new modernist scholarship, Mark Quigley's first book, Empire's Wake, is a rich exploration of Irish postcolonial writing and modernist form...Overall, this timely study highlights the critical potential in shifting the parameters of modernism." -Modernism/modernity (Project Muse)
£40.50
Fordham University Press Islam and the Challenge of Civilization
Book SynopsisCriticizes readings of the Koran that fuel violent acts, and calls for exegesis of Islam's sacred texts inspired by ijtihad, or independent interpretation. Analyzes the burqa ban in France, and suggests that the future of reformed Islam lies among Muslims living in the West, where religion and positivist law co-exist.Trade Review"It is more urgent than ever to allow a voice such as Meddeb's to be heard, the voice of an Arab intellectual familiar with both Muslim civilization and Western culture. In this-and thanks to his immense knowledge and open-indedness-he is a precious translator capable of seeing both sides at the same time." -- -Marcel Henaff University of California, San Diego "The philosophy of the future will draw upon all of humanity's collective accomplishments. In Islam and the Challenge of Civilization, Abdelwahab Meddeb proposes a scriptural hermeneutics that combines Spinoza and Ibn 'Arabi, an architectural style that blends Brunilleschi and Sinan, an ethos of competition expressed by the Qur'an and Claude Levi-Strauss, and many other hybrids. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to glimpse the cosmopolitan civilization on the horizon." -- -Nicholas Tampio Fordham University "... an important contribution to knowledge because it gives eloquent voice to a modern Muslim thinker who rejects the narrow legalism of the Wahhabi tradition of Saudi Arabia or the Puritanism of the Egyptian Muslim Brethren." -- -Patrick J. Ryan S.J. Fordham University "This is the perfect handbook for deepening our understanding of both the incredible richness through time and the paradoxical present obtuseness of Islamic culture. Meddeb achieves this feat-how clear knowledge can disarm belligerent interpretations of a paradoxical faith-through his elegant and polyphonic use of Qu'ranic exegesis, advanced literary poetics, and a strong sense of democratic citizen politics, all of which are informed by a profound cosmopolitanism able to simultaneously draw on Ibn Arabi's eclectic Sufism and Voltaire's secular intellect, among many other sources. A necessary exploration,a must-read." -- -Pierre Joris author of The University of California Book of North African Literature "Bold and fresh... Those well-versed in Islamic Studies will enjoy the erudite read, masterfully rendered into English by Kuntz." -Publishers Weekly "Abdelwahab Meddeb's Islam and the Challenge of Civilization offers new perspectives on and fresh associations among historical events in a way that draws the curtain and adjusts the view among Muslim public intellectuals. Situated within the broad scholarship of Islamic thought, it engages critically and creatively with various doctrinal issues that are being manipulated by some Muslim opinion leaders to support their own bellicose positions." -American Journal of Islamic Social SciencesTable of ContentsPrologue 1. Religion and Violence 2. The Koran as Myth 3. The Clash of Interpretations 4. On the Arab Decline 5. Civilization or Extinction 6. Enlightenment Between High and Low Voltage 7. The Physics and Metaphysics of Nature Epilogue 8. Religion and Cosmopolitics Appendixes A. The Veil Unveiled: Dialogue with Christian Jambet B. Obama in Cairo
£51.00
Fordham University Press Hating Empire Properly
Book SynopsisDiscusses arguments made against empire and colonialism in the eighteenth century through works by Denis Diderot and Edmund Burke. Explores the limits and failures of their arguments by emphasizing what they wrote on the two indies, especially India and Haiti.Trade Review"Hating Empire Properly will be praised by political philosophers as well as literary critics for its brilliant 'solution' of the Edmund Burke 'problem': how could a 'liberal' on America and India also be a'conservative' on France? How can we grasp Denis Diderot's defense of colonial commerce alongside his denunciations of empire? Neither apologia nor jeremiad,Agnani's compelling study of the Enlightenment shows subtle consistencies where previous critics could only see contradiction." -- -Srinivas Aravamudan author of Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel "Agnani argues convincingly that Enlightenment historiography is imperial historiography; that is, it derives the terms of its understanding of historical transitions and epochal events (in Europe as elsewhere) from the history of empires, past and present. Agnani focuses on Diderot and Burke, but his carefully-crafted analyses of the energy and limits of their anti-colonialist writing illuminate the wider field of colonial discourse studies." -- -Suvir Kaul University of Pennsylvania "What should it mean to hate empire,properly? What modes of conceptual critique, what ethos of engagement, what attitude to the modern, should we adopt? In this learned and deftly argued book, Sunil Agnani offers us a revised picture of the conceits of Europe's self-consciousness of empire by holding up the internal anticolonial mirror of Diderot and Burke. If Enlightenment is neither single nor seamless, neither a choice nor a prison, what Agnani's reading underscores is the truth of the dictum that, for its conscripts anyway, the only way out is through." -- -David Scott Columbia University "Agnani offers wonderfully nuanced readings of two profound and vexing 18th-century thinkers-Diderot and Burke.Agnani refuses, just as Diderot and Burke did, to be defined and constrained by shallow distinctions that have so often marked our view of the Enlightenment, its critics and their relationship to European imperialism. This is a work of sustained subtlety and intelligence." -- -Uday S. Mehta City University of New York ". . he [Agnani] offers a fresh textual analysis of a selection of colonial writings by Diderot and Burke." -Anita Rupprecht, University of BrightonTable of ContentsPrologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity Introduction: Companies, Colonies and their Critics Part I Denis Diderot: The Two Indies of the French Enlightenment Chapter 1: Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot's Thought Chapter 2: On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes Part II Edmund Burke: Political Analogy and Enlightenment Critique Chapter 3: Between France and India in 1790: Custom and Arithmetic Reason in a Country of Conquest Chapter 4: Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament Chapter 5: Atlantic Revolutions and their Indian Echoes: The Place of America in Burke's Asia Writings (a) Reflections on the Revolution in Saint Domingue/Haiti (b) Compensation in the East, or, from Virginia to Hindostan Epilogue Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at its Limit
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Fordham University Press Mourning Philology
Book SynopsisThis book offers a monograph on the work of the Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan (1884-1915), preceded by a general account of how Armenian national philology unfolded in the 19th century, under the influence of European orientalist philology and its two main inventions: the native and mythological religion.Trade Review"Marc Nichanian gives us the most extensive account of philology to date - by which I mean that he calls it to account as no one else has as of yet. He identifies philology as the foundational discourse that, hardly limited to the academy, instituted the "order of things" within which we live and think still. Philology's role was memorably traced by Foucault, while Edward Said crucially implicated it in the history of colonial rule. Nichanian expands on both, and he does so by restoring religion to its place. More important, whereas Foucault and Said saw literature as the site of a possible breach of philology's hold, Nichanian demonstrates the more complex, indeed, essential link between the aesthetic and the religious. Finally, by placing mourning at the center of these distinct discursive spheres, Nichanian brings together the emerging discourses and practices of "art, religion and philology," archaeology, ethnography and literature, nationalism and colonialism. He thereby recasts our entire understanding of modernity as the impossibility of mourning. This extraordinary book, subtly argued, wonderfully organized, and impeccably translated, will no doubt appeal to scholars of literature, philosophy and religion." -- -Gil Anidjar Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsA Note on Transliteration Introduction. Art, Religion, and Philology (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian) Part I. "The Seal of Silence" (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian) 1. Variants and Facets of the Literary erection 2. Abovean and the Birth of the Native 3. Orientalism and Neo-archeology Part II. Daniel Varuzhan: The End of Religion (Translated by Jeff Fort) 4. The Disaster of the Native 5. The Other Scene of Representation 6. Erection and Self-Sacrifice 7. The Mourning of Religion I 8. The Mourning of Religion II Epilogue. Nietzsche in Armenian Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian) Appendices: Translations 1. Philology and Ethnography in the Nineteenth Century (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian) 2. Constant Zarian: Essays in Mehyan and Other Writings (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian) 3. Daniel Varuzhan: Poems and Prose (Translated by G. M. Goshgarian, Nanor Kebranian, and Lena Takvorian) Notes Bibliography Index
£65.70
Fordham University Press The Politics of Irony in American Modernism
Book SynopsisThe Politics of Irony in American Modernism traces how “irony” emerged as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices in American literature of the twentieth century’s first half. It is the first study to derive definitions of irony inductively from its widespread use within modernist culture.Trade Review"The major achievement of The Politics of Irony in American Modernism is that it teaches us to see modernist irony in a new light. It recovers an understanding of modernism that predates its New Critical canonization in the United States. The most effective instrument of this archeological work is the reinterpretation of the meaning of "irony," one of the central categories of New Criticism itself. What makes the book into a significant intervention into contemporary discussions of modernism is that it shows us that for a select group of authors irony did not serve as a means of apolitical detachment (as formalist readings would have it) but precisely as its opposite: for them, irony was a tool of political activism." -- -Roland Vegso University of Nebraska-Lincoln "The Politics of Irony in American Modernism is a remarkable work of scholarship, wedding theoretical acuity with bold and lively readings across an impressive range of contexts. Stratton argues with conviction for a genealogy of modernism that foregrounds attention to irony as a critical practice aiming to change the disposition of readers toward their own acts of political and imaginative engagement. Assembling a varied and surprising set of interlocutors, from Kenneth Burke, Ellen Glasgow, and American Nietzscheans to Northrop Frye, Adorno, and Ralph Ellison, Stratton conducts a rich meditation on literary work as political work, and on forms of feeling and thinking worthy of the epithet "democracy". He not only offers us a bold new frame for reading modernism; he makes modernism itself richly new as an object of study. This work will shape conversations among scholars of modernism and its discontents for many years to come." -- -Sara Blair University of Michigan "An important and deeply insightful book. Moving past familiar debates on the politics of irony, Stratton argues for an understanding of modernist irony as an aesthetic practice that not only sharply reorients political perception, but also promotes dispositions and habits of analysis that are indispensable to political thought and action." -- -Amanda Anderson Brown University "Readers who like their scholarship to be ecumenical in its sourcing and counterintuitive in its findings will find much to admire in 'The Politics of Irony in American Modernism.'" -- T. Austin Graham, Columbia University -ALH Online Review "Stratton makes a highly original contribution both to our understanding of irony as it is used in literary critical discourse and to the political history of American modernism. He succeeds in historicizing this notoriously vague and slippery concept, and he persuasively articulates new ways of connecting the literary and the political that don't privilege either one at the expense of the other." -- -Jonathan Greenberg author of Modernism, Satire, and the NovelTable of ContentsIntroduction: Irony and How It Got That Way Chapter 1: The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s Chapter 2: Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s Chapter 3: The Focus of Satire: Irony and Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos Page Chapter 4: Visible Decisions : Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion Bibliography Page
£45.00
Fordham University Press Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials
Book SynopsisKant has taken seriously, as no one else in the history of philosophy did, the existence of extraterrestrials. Their central role in his thought allows for a new approach of cosmopolitanism, in a tight dialogue with Carl Schmitt. At stake is a geopolitics of the sensible.Trade Review"Among the vast body of scholarship that explores the Kantian theory of space, none does so with greater urgency, concision, and wit than Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials. It is especially innovative not only in its examination of the theme of extraterritoriality but also in its staging of the confrontation between Kant and Schmitt over the origin and fate of so-called outer space." -- -Peter Fenves Northwestern University "Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials charts an original and compelling path from Schmitt to Kant, science fiction and Derrida, bringing to light the fantastical yet persistently unsettling role played by fictions of extraterritoriality in the philosophical elaboration of modern cosmopolitanism." -- -Daniel Heller-Roazen Princeton University "Regardless of whether Kant really believed in little green men, Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials is a timely contribution to a bourgeoning field of inquiry." -Journal of the Fantastic in the ArtsTable of ContentsContents 1. A Little Bit of Tourism 2. Star Wars 3. Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials 4. Cosmetics and Cosmopolitics 5. Weightlessness (The Archimedean Point of the Sensible) 6. Postface: What's Left of Cosmopolitanism? Notes
£999.99
Fordham University Press The Republic of the Living Biopolitics and the
Book SynopsisTakes up Foucault's hypothesis that liberal "civil society," far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control, and are invested with new forms of biopower.Trade Review"In this thrilling intervention into thinking about human life, Miguel Vatter rejects the usual turn towards bios and turns instead (using Agamben, Benjamin and many other interlocutors to do so) towards the physical, the local, and the body in all its vulnerability and desire. In this way the body as fetish can become a means for its own unraveling; a turn towards the body, towards zoe, can mean that the body becomes something other than a site upon which power is exercised (biopower) and become instead a site in which power is experienced, negotiated and often subverted (biopolitics)." -- -James Martel San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Biopolitics of the Economy 1. The Tragedy of Civil Society and Republican Politics in Hegel 2. Living Labor and Self-Generative Value in Marx Part II. Biopolitics of the Family 3. Reification and the Redemption of Bare Life in Adorno and Agamben 4. Natality, Fertility, Mimesis in Arendt's Theory of Freedom 5. The Heroism of Sexuality in Benjamin and Foucault Part III. Biopolitics of Rights 6. Free Markets and Republican Constitutions in Hayek and Foucault 7. Biopolitical Cosmopolitanism: The Right to Have Rights in Arendt and Agamben Part IV. Biopolitics of Eternal Life 8. The Unity of Biological Life and a Philosophical Life in Aristotle, Spinoza, and Heidegger 9. Eternal Recurrence and the Now of Revolution: Nietzsche and Messianic Marxism Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Fordham University Press Political Magic British Fictions of Savagery and
Book SynopsisDiscusses fictional encounters between Europeans and purportedly “savage” people in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, arguing that these fictions illuminate debates about sovereignty, violence, and political community. Examines works by Thomas Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Eliza Haywood.Trade Review"Any one interested in the tradition of the modern novel not indebted to realism or how to artfully combine theory, politics, and literature will find much to admire in Loar's Political Magic. Exploring the way that magic, deceit, and sovereignty were habitually yoked in writers whose politics were as various as Cavendish, Behn, Defoe, Swift, and Haywood, Loar's book examines the way that their fictions repeatedly stage a foundational political moment that inaugurates a modern although ambiguous civilizing project, one fraught with technologically-enhanced violence, deferred violence, and magical instruments rather than reason or rhetoric as techniques of government. Loar shows through a series of persuasive close readings of political theory and fiction that liberalism, at its inception, registers pessimism about the tendency of sovereignty to exceed the law and turn subjects into enemies." -- -Roxann Wheeler The Ohio State University "As pyrotechnic as it is closely reasoned, this bold and convincing new book looks at the unlikely role that spectacular technologies of domination and enchantment played in the making of "modern" political community. Christopher Loar punctures the myth of modernity by reversing two standard narratives about the decline of magic and the rise of the liberal subject. That subject's story, disturbingly beholden to technologies of violence and enchantment, is told through insightful new readings of Swift, Defoe, Behn, and Haywood. "Political Magic" reunites these writers and their fictions with the political philosophy and savagely wondrous colonial practices of the seventeenth century." -- -Jayne Lewis University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsIntroduction: Magical Government 1. Enchanting the Savage: The Politics of Pyrotechnics in the Cavendish Circle 2. Fire and Sword: Aphra Behn and the Materials of Authority 3. Talking Guns and Savage Spaces in Daniel Defoe 4. Doctrines Detestables: Jonathan Swift, Despotism, and Virtue 5. Savage Vision: Violence, Reason, and Surveillance in Eliza Haywood Coda: Enemies Notes Bibliography Index
£48.60
Fordham University Press The Peoples Right to the Novel
Book SynopsisThis study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa and argues for the genre’s distinct contribution to the literary culture of the continent. The war novel is a form of people’s history that participates in a political struggle for the rights of the dispossessed.Trade Review"Tackling the difficult and urgent issue of wars in Africa and their representation by insider-authors, Coundouriotis's text will provoke debate and raise interest in a rich but still under-researched field of study by means of wide ranging, trenchant analyses." -- -Annie Gagiano Professor Emeritus, Stellenbosch University "In powerful readings of a vast literature of war in Africa, with impeccable scholarship and painstaking attention to historical detail, Eleni Coundouriotis has reconstructed a history of the African novel from below, a history that puts "the people" and their political and literary claims of rights to representation--both in the postcolonial state and its national literature--at the center of the story. The book adds vital new perspectives on the interdependent developments of humanitarian thinking and Naturalism, adding necessary nuance to our understanding of the relationships among literature, human rights, and humanitarianism." -- -Joseph R. Slaughter Columbia University "Eleni Coundouriotis's latest book so exudes theoretical newness that one reads even the bibliography with pencil at the ready." -African Affairs "The People's Right to the Novel combines a clear thesis with a painstaking and perceptive discussion of the individual authors and their works." -- -Wendy Griswold Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Naturalism, Humanitarianism, and the Fiction of War 1. "No Innocents and No Onlookers": The Uses of the Past in the Novels of Mau Mau 2. Toward a People's History: The Novels of the Nigerian Civil War 3. "Wondering Who the Heroes Were": Zimbabwe's Novels of Atrocity 4. Contesting the New Authenticity: Contemporary War Fiction in Africa Afterword Notes Works Cited Index
£48.60
Fordham University Press Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the inextricable entanglement of Orientalism and anti-Judaism in modern German letters. It shows how historicist narratives posit the Orient as fetish in lieu of absent origins, then appropriate this fetish by applying to the East-West relation the Christian supercessionist typology earlier developed to construe the Jewish-Christian relation.Trade Review"In this sweeping study reaching from Baruch Spinoza to Edward Said, Jeffrey Librett uncovers with superb erudition the driving force of Orientalism: the panicked disavowal of the 'crisis of foundations' in Western modernity. Librett's astute analyses of transcendental-historicist texts from Herder to Schopenhauer are followed by fresh interpretations of critical modernist responses by Kafka and Freud. A groundbreaking critique of Said's critique of Freud and a keen analysis of the vicissitudes of contemporary German Orientalism complement this 'anamnestic journey.' The 19th century historicist appropriation of typology is shown to culminate disastrously in the Semitic/Aryan split, only to be shadowed by the split between the 'good' and the 'bad Semite' - an antagonism that haunts international politics in ruinous ways to this day. Librett's study is of great relevance for scholars of German philosophy and culture, Middle-Eastern Studies, Religious Studies and Psychoanalysis, and for any scholar concerned about the conflict in the Middle-East." -- -Elisabeth Weber University of California, Santa Barbara "This magisterially researched and probingly argued study opens a completely new and potentially groundbreaking perspective on Orientalism. In impeccably executed detail, it demonstrates that what has long been seen as a binary opposition between East and West has in fact relied since its inception on a triangular dynamic between three shifting poles: not simply Occident vs. Orient, but the Occident, the Orient, and the Jew. Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew will be of interest to a wide range of scholars." -- -David Martyn Macalester CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Orientalism as Typology, or How to Disavow the Modern Abyss 1 Part I. Historicist Orientalism: Transcendental Historiography from Johann Gottfried Herder to Arthur Schopenhauer 1. Ordering Chaos: The Orient in J. G. Herder's Teleological Historicism 2. Figuralizing the Oriental, Literalizing the Jew: From Letter to Spirit in Friedrich Schlegel's On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians 3. Goethe's Orientalizing Moment (I): "Notes and Treatises for the Better Understanding of the West-East Divan" 4. Goethe's Orientalizing Moment (II): The Poetry of the West-East Divan Excursus: Jussuph and the Question of Anti-Semitism in Goethe 5. Thresholds of History: India and the Limits of Europe in Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History Excursus: The History of Panic-Angst und Notgeschrei 6. Taking Up Groundlessness, Fulfilling Fulfillment: Schopenhauer's Orientalist Metaphysics between Indians and Jews Part II. How Not to Appropriate Orientalist Typology: Some Modernist Responses to Historicism 7. Dialectical Development or Partial Construction? Martin Buber and Franz Kafka Excursus on a Brief Excursus-Concerning Babel 8. The Dreamwork of History: Orientalism and Originary Disfiguration in Freud's Moses and Monotheism Excursus: Edward Said and the Identity of the Different, or Freud in Palestine Conclusion: For an Abstract Historiography of the Nonexistent Present Notes Index
£999.99
Fordham University Press Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the inextricable entanglement of Orientalism and anti-Judaism in modern German letters. It shows how historicist narratives posit the Orient as fetish in lieu of absent origins, then appropriate this fetish by applying to the East-West relation the Christian supercessionist typology earlier developed to construe the Jewish-Christian relation.Trade Review"In this sweeping study reaching from Baruch Spinoza to Edward Said, Jeffrey Librett uncovers with superb erudition the driving force of Orientalism: the panicked disavowal of the 'crisis of foundations' in Western modernity. Librett's astute analyses of transcendental-historicist texts from Herder to Schopenhauer are followed by fresh interpretations of critical modernist responses by Kafka and Freud. A groundbreaking critique of Said's critique of Freud and a keen analysis of the vicissitudes of contemporary German Orientalism complement this 'anamnestic journey.' The 19th century historicist appropriation of typology is shown to culminate disastrously in the Semitic/Aryan split, only to be shadowed by the split between the 'good' and the 'bad Semite' - an antagonism that haunts international politics in ruinous ways to this day. Librett's study is of great relevance for scholars of German philosophy and culture, Middle-Eastern Studies, Religious Studies and Psychoanalysis, and for any scholar concerned about the conflict in the Middle-East." -- -Elisabeth Weber University of California, Santa Barbara "This magisterially researched and probingly argued study opens a completely new and potentially groundbreaking perspective on Orientalism. In impeccably executed detail, it demonstrates that what has long been seen as a binary opposition between East and West has in fact relied since its inception on a triangular dynamic between three shifting poles: not simply Occident vs. Orient, but the Occident, the Orient, and the Jew. Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew will be of interest to a wide range of scholars." -- -David Martyn Macalester CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Orientalism as Typology, or How to Disavow the Modern Abyss 1 Part I. Historicist Orientalism: Transcendental Historiography from Johann Gottfried Herder to Arthur Schopenhauer 1. Ordering Chaos: The Orient in J. G. Herder's Teleological Historicism 2. Figuralizing the Oriental, Literalizing the Jew: From Letter to Spirit in Friedrich Schlegel's On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians 3. Goethe's Orientalizing Moment (I): "Notes and Treatises for the Better Understanding of the West-East Divan" 4. Goethe's Orientalizing Moment (II): The Poetry of the West-East Divan Excursus: Jussuph and the Question of Anti-Semitism in Goethe 5. Thresholds of History: India and the Limits of Europe in Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History Excursus: The History of Panic-Angst und Notgeschrei 6. Taking Up Groundlessness, Fulfilling Fulfillment: Schopenhauer's Orientalist Metaphysics between Indians and Jews Part II. How Not to Appropriate Orientalist Typology: Some Modernist Responses to Historicism 7. Dialectical Development or Partial Construction? Martin Buber and Franz Kafka Excursus on a Brief Excursus-Concerning Babel 8. The Dreamwork of History: Orientalism and Originary Disfiguration in Freud's Moses and Monotheism Excursus: Edward Said and the Identity of the Different, or Freud in Palestine Conclusion: For an Abstract Historiography of the Nonexistent Present Notes Index
£23.39
Fordham University Press Divine Enjoyment A Theology of Passion and
Book SynopsisThis book’s relational theology analogically unfolds a view of a God of enjoyment whose exuberant passion contains the traces of suffering, yearning, permeability, intensity, and impropriety. God, in affectively embracing all living beings, takes on their form, and in incarnating the divine self as hospitable pleasure, vivifies the cosmos.Trade Review"Elaine Padilla's book offers a breath of fresh air into a theological discourse that often dwells on suffering and survival, ignoring our desire and attempts to achieve enjoyment. Her theology of enjoyment emphasizes reciprocal and communal relations between God and God's creation. Padilla's poetic, erotic, and aesthetic approach expands theological language about the sacred and offers an alternative metaphysics infused with passion and pleasure." -- -Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado University of Miami "Brimming with laughter, subversion, and fiesta, Divine Enjoyment leads us with utter grace in a new theological dance. Attentive to the open wounds of human suffering precisely as open ends of a boundless passion, Elaine Padilla has with stunning lucidity and erudition opened a cosmos of erotic splendor, enjoyed by a God of utter permeability and care. Here-with the most sensitive polyamory-Aquinas, Whitehead, Maduro, Marion, and Althaus Reid form with her a carnivalesque ensemble, inviting philosophical theology to its own most vibrant becoming." -- -Catherine Keller author of The Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement (forthcoming) "Padilla's constructive proposal of a theology of a passionate and exuberant God- the God of eros, desire, compassion, suffering, love, and self-transformation- will resonate deeply with contemporary readers of diverse religious persuasions. The book is a highly erudite and breathtakingly creative synthesis of classical theological works. It transforms and enriches our understanding of who God is in a way totally unexpected. It is no doubt one of the best books on God by the younger American theologians." -- -Peter Phan Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Pain: Groans and Birth Pangs of the Divine Enjoyment 2. Yearning: Traces of the Divine Erotic Existence in the Cosmos 3. Permeability: The Open Wounds of the Lovers' Flesh 4. Intensity: Passionate Becomings of the Divine Complex 5. Impropriety: Incarnations of Carnivalesque Passion and Open-Ended Boundaries Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£21.59
Fordham University Press Islam and the Challenge of Civilization
Book SynopsisCriticizes readings of the Koran that fuel violent acts, and calls for exegesis of Islam's sacred texts inspired by ijtihad, or independent interpretation. Analyzes the burqa ban in France, and suggests that the future of reformed Islam lies among Muslims living in the West, where religion and positivist law co-exist.Trade Review"It is more urgent than ever to allow a voice such as Meddeb's to be heard, the voice of an Arab intellectual familiar with both Muslim civilization and Western culture. In this-and thanks to his immense knowledge and open-indedness-he is a precious translator capable of seeing both sides at the same time." -- -Marcel Henaff University of California, San Diego "The philosophy of the future will draw upon all of humanity's collective accomplishments. In Islam and the Challenge of Civilization, Abdelwahab Meddeb proposes a scriptural hermeneutics that combines Spinoza and Ibn 'Arabi, an architectural style that blends Brunilleschi and Sinan, an ethos of competition expressed by the Qur'an and Claude Levi-Strauss, and many other hybrids. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to glimpse the cosmopolitan civilization on the horizon." -- -Nicholas Tampio Fordham University "... an important contribution to knowledge because it gives eloquent voice to a modern Muslim thinker who rejects the narrow legalism of the Wahhabi tradition of Saudi Arabia or the Puritanism of the Egyptian Muslim Brethren." -- -Patrick J. Ryan S.J. Fordham University "This is the perfect handbook for deepening our understanding of both the incredible richness through time and the paradoxical present obtuseness of Islamic culture. Meddeb achieves this feat-how clear knowledge can disarm belligerent interpretations of a paradoxical faith-through his elegant and polyphonic use of Qu'ranic exegesis, advanced literary poetics, and a strong sense of democratic citizen politics, all of which are informed by a profound cosmopolitanism able to simultaneously draw on Ibn Arabi's eclectic Sufism and Voltaire's secular intellect, among many other sources. A necessary exploration,a must-read." -- -Pierre Joris author of The University of California Book of North African Literature "Bold and fresh... Those well-versed in Islamic Studies will enjoy the erudite read, masterfully rendered into English by Kuntz." -Publishers Weekly "Abdelwahab Meddeb's Islam and the Challenge of Civilization offers new perspectives on and fresh associations among historical events in a way that draws the curtain and adjusts the view among Muslim public intellectuals. Situated within the broad scholarship of Islamic thought, it engages critically and creatively with various doctrinal issues that are being manipulated by some Muslim opinion leaders to support their own bellicose positions." -American Journal of Islamic Social SciencesTable of ContentsPrologue 1. Religion and Violence 2. The Koran as Myth 3. The Clash of Interpretations 4. On the Arab Decline 5. Civilization or Extinction 6. Enlightenment Between High and Low Voltage 7. The Physics and Metaphysics of Nature Epilogue 8. Religion and Cosmopolitics Appendixes A. The Veil Unveiled: Dialogue with Christian Jambet B. Obama in Cairo
£999.99
Fordham University Press Europe and Empire On the Political Forms of
Book SynopsisAssesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping of modern Europe.Trade Review"Europe and Empire is both timely and insightful. Politician, activist, philosopher and teacher, Massimo Cacciari explores both the hopes and possibilities of a nascent European Union as well as its current demise as a serious world power. What do the idea and reality of Europe hold for philosophy, politics and globalization? This is the central question of the essays of this volume. With great erudition, rich political insight and sharp critical analysis, Cacciari leads readers to a deeper understanding of the aspirations and failures of Europe, all from a deeply philosophical perspective: Europe in its "evening light" must learn to see itself through the "insufficiency" of its own self-definitions, a project similar to the negative theology of thinkers like Nicholas of Cusa. Cacciari calls us to think Europe as an unpolitical community." -- -Antonio Calcagno King's University College, London, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Massimo Cacciari's Genealogy of Europe Alessandro Carrera Part I: Thinking Europe 1. Thinking Europe 2. Europeanism 3. Two German Speeches: The "Second Thought" The Language of Europe 4. Europe or Philosophy 5. Europe or Christianity Part II: The Idea of Empire 6. What Is Empire? 7. The Myth of the Growing City 8. Digressions on Empire and the Three Romes 9. More on the Idea of Empire 10. Empire and Katechon: a Question of Political Theology (From Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2) Part III: Title TK 11. The Europe of Maria Zambrano 12. We Cannot Only Call Ourselves Judeo-Christians. A Conversation with Jacques Le Goff Notes Bibliography Articles Included in This Volume Works Cited Index of Names
£71.10
Fordham University Press Europe and Empire
Book SynopsisThe European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. Europe will never be One, but to survive as a union it will have to become a federation of islands both distinct and connected.Though drawing on philosophers of Europe's past, Cacciari calls not to resist Europe's sunset but to embrace it. Europe will have to open up to the possibility that in few generations new exiles and an unpredictable cultural hybridism will again change all we know about the European legacy. Though scarcely alive in today's politics, the political unity of Europe is still a necessity, however impossible it seems to achieve.Trade Review"Europe and Empire is both timely and insightful. Politician, activist, philosopher and teacher, Massimo Cacciari explores both the hopes and possibilities of a nascent European Union as well as its current demise as a serious world power. What do the idea and reality of Europe hold for philosophy, politics and globalization? This is the central question of the essays of this volume. With great erudition, rich political insight and sharp critical analysis, Cacciari leads readers to a deeper understanding of the aspirations and failures of Europe, all from a deeply philosophical perspective: Europe in its "evening light" must learn to see itself through the "insufficiency" of its own self-definitions, a project similar to the negative theology of thinkers like Nicholas of Cusa. Cacciari calls us to think Europe as an unpolitical community." -- -Antonio Calcagno King's University College, London, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Massimo Cacciari's Genealogy of Europe Alessandro Carrera Part I: Thinking Europe 1. Thinking Europe 2. Europeanism 3. Two German Speeches: The "Second Thought" The Language of Europe 4. Europe or Philosophy 5. Europe or Christianity Part II: The Idea of Empire 6. What Is Empire? 7. The Myth of the Growing City 8. Digressions on Empire and the Three Romes 9. More on the Idea of Empire 10. Empire and Katechon: a Question of Political Theology (From Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2) Part III: Title TK 11. The Europe of Maria Zambrano 12. We Cannot Only Call Ourselves Judeo-Christians. A Conversation with Jacques Le Goff Notes Bibliography Articles Included in This Volume Works Cited Index of Names
£23.39
Fordham University Press Hating Empire Properly
Book SynopsisDiscusses arguments made against empire and colonialism in the eighteenth century through works by Denis Diderot and Edmund Burke. Explores the limits and failures of their arguments by emphasizing what they wrote on the two indies, especially India and Haiti.Trade Review"Hating Empire Properly will be praised by political philosophers as well as literary critics for its brilliant 'solution' of the Edmund Burke 'problem': how could a 'liberal' on America and India also be a'conservative' on France? How can we grasp Denis Diderot's defense of colonial commerce alongside his denunciations of empire? Neither apologia nor jeremiad,Agnani's compelling study of the Enlightenment shows subtle consistencies where previous critics could only see contradiction." -- -Srinivas Aravamudan author of Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel "Agnani argues convincingly that Enlightenment historiography is imperial historiography; that is, it derives the terms of its understanding of historical transitions and epochal events (in Europe as elsewhere) from the history of empires, past and present. Agnani focuses on Diderot and Burke, but his carefully-crafted analyses of the energy and limits of their anti-colonialist writing illuminate the wider field of colonial discourse studies." -- -Suvir Kaul University of Pennsylvania "What should it mean to hate empire,properly? What modes of conceptual critique, what ethos of engagement, what attitude to the modern, should we adopt? In this learned and deftly argued book, Sunil Agnani offers us a revised picture of the conceits of Europe's self-consciousness of empire by holding up the internal anticolonial mirror of Diderot and Burke. If Enlightenment is neither single nor seamless, neither a choice nor a prison, what Agnani's reading underscores is the truth of the dictum that, for its conscripts anyway, the only way out is through." -- -David Scott Columbia University "Agnani offers wonderfully nuanced readings of two profound and vexing 18th-century thinkers-Diderot and Burke.Agnani refuses, just as Diderot and Burke did, to be defined and constrained by shallow distinctions that have so often marked our view of the Enlightenment, its critics and their relationship to European imperialism. This is a work of sustained subtlety and intelligence." -- -Uday S. Mehta City University of New York ". . he [Agnani] offers a fresh textual analysis of a selection of colonial writings by Diderot and Burke." -Anita Rupprecht, University of BrightonTable of ContentsPrologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity Introduction: Companies, Colonies and their Critics Part I Denis Diderot: The Two Indies of the French Enlightenment Chapter 1: Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot's Thought Chapter 2: On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes Part II Edmund Burke: Political Analogy and Enlightenment Critique Chapter 3: Between France and India in 1790: Custom and Arithmetic Reason in a Country of Conquest Chapter 4: Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament Chapter 5: Atlantic Revolutions and their Indian Echoes: The Place of America in Burke's Asia Writings (a) Reflections on the Revolution in Saint Domingue/Haiti (b) Compensation in the East, or, from Virginia to Hindostan Epilogue Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at its Limit
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Fordham University Press The Transcontinental Maghreb
Book SynopsisThrough close readings of literary and cultural texts, proposes to recalibrate readings of Francophone Maghrebi literature and their critical methodologies in light of Mediterranean Studies.Trade Review"Impressively up to date and beautifully written, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of French and Francophone Studies, postcolonial studies, the growing field of Mediterranean studies, and transcultural approaches to memory. Talbayev gives lucid overviews of these areas, while proposing her own distinctive models for thinking about transcontinental connections in a global age." -- -Debarati Sanyal University of California, Berkeley
£19.79
Fordham University Press Mapping Memory Visuality Affect and Embodied
Book SynopsisInterweaves visual and performance theory with memory and affect studies to develop the theory of memory mapping, defined as the visual process of representing the affective, sensorial, polyvocal, and temporally layered relationship between past and present, anchored within the specificities of place.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Affect, Haunting, and Mapping Memory 27 2. The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Feeling the Past 56 3. Performing Archives, Performing Ruins 88 4. The Politics of Seeing: Affect, Forensics, and Visuality in the US-Mexico Borderlands 120 Conclusion 153 Acknowledgments 159 Notes 161 Bibliography 181 Index 195
£23.39
Fordham University Press Remaking North American Sovereignty State
Book SynopsisThis book explores the tumultuous history of state making in mid-nineteenth- century North America from a continental perspective. Essays by experts on Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, Mexico’s fight against French imperialists, and indigenous Americans shed new light on events traditionally studied as separate national stories.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sovereignty and the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century North America Frank Towers | 1 Part I: Making Nations 1 The United States from the Inside Out and the Southside North Steven Hahn | 25 2 Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly: Why Canada Chose a Unique Model of Sovereignty in the 1860s Andrew Smith | 36 3 Civil War and Nation Building in North America, 1848–1867 Pablo Mijangos y González | 61 4 1860s Capitalscapes, Governing Interiors, and the Illustration of North American Sovereignty Robert Bonner | 90 Part II: Indigenous Polities 5 The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South Jane Dinwoodie | 107 6 Negotiating Sovereignty: U.S. and Canadian Colonialisms on the Northwest Plains, 1855–1877 Ryan Hall | 132 7 Indian Raids in Northern Mexico and the Construction of Mexican Sovereignty Marcela Terrazas y Basante | 153 Part III: The Complications of the Market 8 State, Market, and Popular Sovereignty in Agrarian North America: Th e United States, 1850–1920 Christopher Clark | 177 9 Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands of Juan Cortina and Louis Riel in an Age of National Consolidation Benjamin H. Johnson | 200 10 City Sovereignty in the Era of the American Civil War Mary P. Ryan | 220 Conclusion: Continental History and the Problem of Time and Place Frank Towers | 251 Acknowledgments | 261 List of Contributors | 263 Index | 265
£27.90
Fordham University Press Remaking North American Sovereignty State
Book SynopsisThis book explores the tumultuous history of state making in mid-nineteenth- century North America from a continental perspective. Essays by experts on Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, Mexico’s fight against French imperialists, and indigenous Americans shed new light on events traditionally studied as separate national stories.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sovereignty and the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century North America Frank Towers | 1 Part I: Making Nations 1 The United States from the Inside Out and the Southside North Steven Hahn | 25 2 Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly: Why Canada Chose a Unique Model of Sovereignty in the 1860s Andrew Smith | 36 3 Civil War and Nation Building in North America, 1848–1867 Pablo Mijangos y González | 61 4 1860s Capitalscapes, Governing Interiors, and the Illustration of North American Sovereignty Robert Bonner | 90 Part II: Indigenous Polities 5 The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South Jane Dinwoodie | 107 6 Negotiating Sovereignty: U.S. and Canadian Colonialisms on the Northwest Plains, 1855–1877 Ryan Hall | 132 7 Indian Raids in Northern Mexico and the Construction of Mexican Sovereignty Marcela Terrazas y Basante | 153 Part III: The Complications of the Market 8 State, Market, and Popular Sovereignty in Agrarian North America: Th e United States, 1850–1920 Christopher Clark | 177 9 Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands of Juan Cortina and Louis Riel in an Age of National Consolidation Benjamin H. Johnson | 200 10 City Sovereignty in the Era of the American Civil War Mary P. Ryan | 220 Conclusion: Continental History and the Problem of Time and Place Frank Towers | 251 Acknowledgments | 261 List of Contributors | 263 Index | 265
£102.60
