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Book SynopsisInvestigates the environmental policies of transnational and militant Islamist groupsTrade Review"Karagiannis's well-researched work outlines Islamist approaches to environmental issues. Its analysis of six organisations, including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbullah and ISIS, shows that political self-interest, rather than a theological rationale, drives the shift to environmentalism. This excellent volume enriches our knowledge of Islamist ideas and policies and exposes the secular motivations behind the religious veneer that overlays them. " -Katerina Dalacoura, London School of Economics

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Book SynopsisThe first sustained study of visuality in the works of Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin and Brigid Brophy.

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Book SynopsisAs part of the study of emotions and politics, this book explores connections between affect and cognition and their implications for political evaluation, decision and action. Emphasizing theory, methodology and empirical research, Feeling Politics is an important contribution to political science, sociology, psychology and communications.Trade Review"Feeling Politics: Emotion in Political Processing is a timely contribution from a very distinguished group of scholars in the burgeoning field of emotions and politics. The volume reminds us that political reasoning is not simply the outcome of 'cold' calculation concerning one's interests or a simple accumulation of factual information. Rather, the contributors to this volume underscore how emotions can bias citizens' political decision making, harden existing beliefs even in the face of contrary information, heighten attention to political figures and events, worsen information processing and learning, and intensify the impact of political ads. Intellectual synergy is conveyed well by the chapters in this volume, which represent the rich nexus of cross cutting ideas, approaches, and findings characteristic of work on emotions." - Leonie Huddy, Stony Brook UniversityTable of ContentsFeeling Politics: Affect and Emotion in Political Information Processing; D.P.Redlawsk First Steps toward a Dual-Process Accessibility Model of Political Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behavior; M.Lodge & C.Taber The Measure and Mismeasure of Emotion; G.E.Marcus, M.B.MacKuen, J.Wolak & L.Keele Contributions of a Microsociological Perspective on Emotion to the Study of Political Identity and Action; L.Troyer & D.T.Robinson Affect and Politics: Effects on Judgment, Processing, and Information Selection; L.M.Isbell, V.C.Ottati & K.C.Burns Fear and Anger in Candidate Evaluation: Context, Traits, and Negative Candidate Affect; M.R.Steenbergen & C.Ellis Motivated Reasoning, Affect, and the Role of Memory in Voter Decision-Making; D.P.Redlawsk The Three Faces of Negative Campaigning: The Democratic Implications of Attack Ads, Cynical News and Fear Arousing Messages; A.Crigler, M.Just & T.Belt Racial Cues in Campaign News: The Effects of Candidate Issue Distance on Emotional Responses, Political Attentiveness, and Vote Choice; V.L.Hutchings, N.A.Valentino, T.S.Philpot & I.K.White Do Voters Want Candidates They Like or Candidates They Agree With? Affect vs. Cognition in Voter Decision Making; D.P.Redlawsk & R.R.Lau The Emotional Calculus of Foreign Policy Decisions: Getting Emotions Out Of the Closet; N.Geva & J.M.Skorick

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Book SynopsisAt the intersection of the warmth of hearth and home and the dangers of the street lies the tenuous position of women engaged in reproductive labour, those involved in the sex trade and those in domestic positions.Trade ReviewThis book shows us what feminist international political-economy looks like: a Ukrainian woman trying to cope with neo-liberal restructuring by risking migration to work in a Turkish cabaret; a Chechen male 'impressario' importing women into Cyprus to reap profits; a Greek professional woman calculating the pros and cons of hiring a Filipina or a Sri Lankan woman as her domestic worker ; government officials using women's cheapened labor to solve their states' problems. Anna Agathangelou reveals how these very specific relationships together comprise the new global system. This is an engaging, valuable book for us all. - Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics Reproductive labor has for too long been sidelined in debates and actions around globalization. This thought-provoking and politically engaged book demonstrates the complicity of the state in the exploitation of reproductive labor in the interests of global capitalism and the importance of learning from the lives of female migrant workers. Drawing on empirical material to theorize the racialized feminization of the 'desire industries' and to explore the possibilities for organizing and change, Anna Agathangelou succeeds in making theory accessible and relevant. - Bridget Anderson, Centre On Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) Madam and maid, master and slave: these remain central to capitalism even though we imagine them to be replaced by private relations of contract and choice. Agathangelou makes us look at the violence that lies beneath how people of rich countries come to know themselves as a people who possess the freedom to consume people and things, and how peripheral states come to participate in these arrangements. An utterly compelling analysis of the international 'commodification of the intimacies' of sex and domestic work, and of the race, gender, and class hierarchies of the global economy. - Sherene H. Razack, Professor, University of Toronto, and author of Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms and Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism This book shows us what feminist international political-economy looks like: a Ukrainian woman trying to cope with neo-liberal restructuring by risking migration to work in a Turkish cabaret; a Chechen male 'impressario' importing women into Cyprus to reap profits; a Greek professional woman calculating the pros and cons of hiring a Filipina or a Sri Lankan woman as her domestic worker ; government officials using women's cheapened labor to solve their states' problems. Anna Agathangelou reveals how these very specific relationships together comprise the new global system. This is an engaging, valuable book for us all. - Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics Reproductive labor has for too long been sidelined in debates and actions around globalization. This thought-provoking and politically engaged book demonstrates the complicity of the state in the exploitation of reproductive labor in the interests of global capitalism and the importance of learning from the lives of female migrant workers. Drawing on empirical material to theorize the racialized feminization of the 'desire industries' and to explore the possibilities for organizing and change, Anna Agathangelou succeeds in making theory accessible and relevant. - Bridget Anderson, Centre On Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) Madam and maid, master and slave: these remain central to capitalism even though we imagine them to be replaced by private relations of contract and choice. Agathangelou makes us look at the violence that lies beneath how people of rich countries come to know themselves as a people who possess the freedom to consume people and things, and how peripheral states come to participate in these arrangements. An utterly compelling analysis of the international 'commodification of the intimacies' of sex and domestic work, and of the race, gender, and class hierarchies of the global economy. - Sherene H. Razack, Professor, University of Toronto, and author of Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms and Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New ImperialismTable of ContentsSex and Domestic Work in the Peropheries: The Fenced-Off Economies of Desire Invisible and Silent Female Migrant Reproductive Labour: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey Peripheral Economies Working and Playing Hard: Social Reproduction and Racial and Sexual Desire in the Mediterranean Desiring Power in the European Union: Peripheral Development and 'Mimicry' National Desires for Security Conclusion: A Global Political Economy of Sex?

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Book SynopsisArranged chronologically and thematically, the book highlights how ideas about the appropriate relationships among science, scientists, and the state changed over time.Trade ReviewWolfe's book is the more traditional alternative to the case study: a synthetic overview. And it is a reminder of how valuable a clear, well-researched synthesis-one sophisticated, holistic take on all those little case studies-can be. AmericanScience A book that is particularly easy to read, and hence one that I strongly recommend to anyone with a burgeoning interest in the study of Cold War science. -- Christopher Hollings British Journal for the History of Science Competing with the Soviets is engaging, and its style of scholarship will intimidate no one. Despite being a synthesis of a huge range of events and sources, the book is slim and easily digested, and readers need no prerequisite science to evaluate the author's ideas. Wolfe takes us from one constellation of promises to the next, showing how scientists tried-and quite often failed-to apply their world views to a multitude of society's problems. -- Jacob Darwin Hamblin Chemical Heritage Magazine Wolfe has done a marvelous job of X-raying the field, grounding the larger narrative with important case studies... The task ahead lies in challenging and enriching-with new topics and novel periodization-the settled framework for interpreting American science in the Cold War. For novice and expert alike, Wolfe's beautifully presented guide is an excellent place to start. -- Benjamin Wilson Endeavour In Competing with the Soviets, Audra J. Wolfe provides an excellent overview of Cold War science. She accomplishes the difficult task of synthesizing a massive amount of both history and historiography into a highly readable arrative. -- David K. Hecht Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences Audra J. Wolfe's short and smart introduction to the history of Cold War science and technology, Competing with the Soviets... pulls together a tremendous number of secondary sources, folding the complexities of this period into a broad overview that takes the reader through many familiar, and some less familiar, topics. -- Brian Balmer Isis Competing with the Soviets is one of the few works of synthesis that actively creates creative and novel interpretations... -- Russell Olwell Technology and Culture [Competing with the Soviets] is a perfect companion text for a variety of courses that examine the postwar world and a valuable source of information for professors putting together lectures on the Cold War... it is a definitive source for separating myth from reality in translating military projects into commercial products available for mass consumption. H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. The Atomic AgeChapter 2. The Military-Industrial ComplexChapter 3. Big ScienceChapter 4. Hearts and Minds and MarketsChapter 5. Science and the General WelfareChapter 6. The Race to the MoonChapter 7. The End of ConsensusChapter 8. Cold War ReduxEpilogueAcknowledgmentsSuggested Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book about a significant South African figure, Joe Modise, who worked in the shadows for much of his life. His journey took him from an impoverished childhood to being chief of a guerrilla army and then Minister of Defence in a liberated country.

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Book SynopsisLiberation Diaries is a powerful and spirited collection of essays from some of South Africa's most distinctive thinkers on the country's 30 years of democracy.

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Book Synopsis2024 thirty years since democracy and a year of a critical election.

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Book SynopsisIn the two decades since the dissolution of the USSR, Russian and Western experts, human rights activists, and journalists have become accustomed to the political violence of the North Caucasus. Terrorist bombings and acts of sabotage in Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Chechnya are perceived as somehow intrinsic to the region. But a recent tragedy in the Volga region suggests that this sort of violenceand the Islamist terrorists who perpetrate itmay not be confined to the Caucasus. With these attacks and counterattacks, the problem of inter-Islamic tensions in the Volga region suddenly became real. To examine this increasingly serious situation, this report sheds light on the ideological sources and resources of radicalism in the Volga region, nonofficial Islamic movements' support among the regional population, and opportunities for the potential growth of different forms of Islamist activities. It describes the origins of different nonofficial Islamic movements, as well as their post-Sovie

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays addresses the interplay of democratic norms and cultural identity within Asia. The overall question for the volume is how the dueling identities of Asianism (regional exceptionalism) and universalism (democratic norms) are shaping state discourse and behavior in Asia. This is based on a dialogue of scholars organized by CSIS to examine national perspectives on Asianism and universalism across the region, as well as the role of regional democracies in developing a common understanding of rules and norms as the foundation for a more stable regional order. The introduction provides context for these normative debates in the region and addresses the potential to prioritize democracy promotion in foreign policy strategy as segue to essays analyzing normative debates in Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, and the United States.

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Book SynopsisWritten by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2014, The Churchill Factor is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what makes a great leader in a time of crisis.Trade ReviewThe must-read biography of the year. * Evening Standard *Genuinely clever... this book sizzles. * The Times *Churchill's own energy - his indefatigable pursuit of excitement, glory, place and power - demands a writer of fizz and passion to do history justice. Johnson is that writer. * Mail on Sunday *A bravura performance...Johnson has not only celebrated Churchill in this book: he has emulated him with comparable panache. * Financial Times *A characteristically breathless romp through the life and times of our greatest wartime leader...high on entertainment as it is on providing an appraisal of the great man's achievements. * Telegraph *Readable, engaging and often funny. * Evening Standard *An engagingly written romp through the elder statesman's greatest achievements. * Observer *Riveting...Boris is a superb, accessible writer, with an easy, good-humoured touch. * Independent *The book's style is often chatty, enthusiastic and as funny as you would expect. * The Spectator *Splendidly enjoyable... It is rare to find a serious study of a politician that's this entertaining. * Daily Express *

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Book SynopsisâI have always been a bird. A bit vulture, a bit eagle. I have looked the sun in its face. Born several times - dead several times so that I could be reborn from my ashes.'

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Book SynopsisAs read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.This is the generation that will change China. The youth, over 320 million of them in their teens and twenties, more than the population of the USA. Born after Mao, with no memory of Tiananmen, they are destined to transform both their nation and the world.These millennials, offspring of the one-child policy, face fierce competition to succeed. Pressure starts young, and their road isn't easy. Their stories are also like those of young people all over the world: moving out of home, starting a career, falling in love.Wish Lanterns follows the lives of six young Chinese. Dahai is a military child and netizen; 'Fred' is a daughter of the Party. Lucifer is an aspiring superstar; Snail a country migrant addicted to online games. Xiaoxiao is a hipster from the freezing north; Mia a rebel from Xinjiang in the far west.Alec Ash, a writer in Beijing of the same generation, has given us a vivid, Trade ReviewA provocative portrait of a fast-changing society riven by internal contradictions . . . a fine addition to the field, one of the best I have read about the individuals who make up a country that is all too often regarded as a monolith, but which abounds with diversity on multiple levels. Fluently written with nice touches of humour . . . this books supplies much food for thought, informing the wider debate while retaining its value as a closely observed picture of how some Chinese live today * Financial Times *An intimate portrait of six young Chinese — three women and three men — on a journey from high school into the workforce . . . Lyrical, with its characters finely drawn, Ash’s book paints a telling portrait of this most restless generation raised in a system that has provided them with unprecedented personal opportunities while denying them political ones . . . a gifted observer * The Washington Post *Wish Lanterns is a beautiful and thoughtful book about the life of young people in China. Alec Ash has succeeded in giving us an intimate and complex portrait of the one child policy generation. It skillfully documents their features, modes of life and dreams of the future. I enthusiastically recommend you to read it -- Xiaolu Guo, author of I Am ChinaWithout listening to Young Chinese, you won't understand what today's China, the woke up dragon, wants to do next. Alec Ash's book has opened a window in the wall between China and the west for us to see the hopes and fears of these young Chinese who are struggling to build their lives in a world that their parents could never dream of -- Xinran, author of The Good Women of China Wish Lanterns announces the arrival of a talented young observer of today’s China. Alec Ash documents the lives of Chinese millennials with detail, insight, and sympathy, and his book is an invaluable resource for anybody hoping to understand the country’s future possibilities. -- Peter Hessler, author of River Town: Two Years on the YangtzeA gem of a book. Its brief chapters flow like a skillfully crafted set of interconnected short stories, yet all are rooted in the real life experiences of six individuals. An impressive debut book by a writer to watch, who makes the most of all he learned while spending his twenties coming of age in the same shapeshifting China as the half dozen Chinese youths whose varied passages to adulthood he chronicles so elegantly and empathetically. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of China in the 21st CenturyIn Wish Lanterns Alec Ash hangs out with China's "post-80s" generations to give us a series of fascinating and insightful snapshots of where the country might be heading. The Rat Tribes, Leftover Women, Ant Tribes and Bare Branches are all revealed as complex and conflicted, yet filled with hopes and dreams for their own, and their country's, future. -- Paul French, author of Midnight in PekingHere is a completely novel take on contemporary China. Alec Ash embarks on a different sort of Chinese journey, following six Millennials from the nation's far-flung corners as they make their way to university, on stage, deep underground, and even abroad. The result is a work of heart-felt reportage, and also great suspense, as we wait to learn each character's fate. I couldn't put it down -- Michael Meyer, author of In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China and The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City TransformedThrough series of profiles of young Chinese from various walks of life and different geographic regions, Alec Ash has assembled a fascinating mosaic that gives us a wonderfully vivid sense of what it's like to grow up today in the People's Republic of China. By simply describing the lives of six youths, Wish Lanterns enables a reader to get an immediate feel of how contradictory life in this dynamic but still unresolved country often is -- Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society, New York CityA wonderfully readable and engaging account of that most mysterious of all groups - Chinese millennials. Alec Ash weaves the joy, heartbreak, drama and trauma of this group through disparate stories, making up a highly realistic, and at times poetic, account of the people who are likely to have the greatest future impact of any one group in the world today. -- Kerry Brown, Professor of China Studies, King's College LondonCompelling and beautifully written * Prospect *At a time when the future of China is so important, it is surprising that so little is understood, outside the world of specialised studies, about the hopes and fears of those most likely to shape it: the roughly 200 million people in the People's Republic currently between the ages of 15 and 24. It is this conspicuous lacuna that Alec Ash's Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China seeks to fill. He does so by telling the stories of six young Chinese born between 1985 and 1990 from the time they entered the world practically up to the present day. His deft style, welcome restraint (he writes the lives of his subjects but does not comment on them or, with a couple of exceptions, appear himself) yet discreet sympathy for the travails of those who have plainly become close friends, make the stories more compelling than they might otherwise have been. Some idea of the predicament of China's young makes this book more valuable still * Standpoint *A masterfully crafted collection of interwoven portraits of six young Chinese. Three men, three women. Millennials born between 1985 and 1990. Their journeys from childhood, balancing parental expectations against personal desires, hopes, dreams, achievements and stumbles . . . through the telling of these six stories, Ash cleverly weaves information about demographics, government policies, political history, as well as social and cultural trends . . . The richness of Ash's book is in the character development, the details of everyday life, dreams, frustrations, and contradictions of these particular individuals. Ash enters their worlds as a peer (he is their same age) and he's a sensitive listener, reporter, and storyteller * LA Review of Books *The people currently ruling China lived through the upheavels of the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen. The millennials who will shape China's future face very different pressures and challenges. In a study that is both literary and political, Ash tries to understand China's future through the lives and aspirations of its rising generation -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times *You should read this book . . . Alec Ash presents us with a China we've never seen before - a young China, China that's growing not just economically but in its ways, and one that isn't scared to question itself . . . a reporter's approach to everyday stories, with thoughtful insights and historical references chosen with medical precision . . . In true journalistic fashion, the book is as in depth as it is literarily sound . . . The chapters masterfully allow the reader to make up their own mind about each of the subjects . . . it becomes a study of the self (or selves) as much as a study of China * City Weekend *Alec Ash’s storytelling gift in Wish Lanterns: Young lives in new China is essentially a novelist’s. Vivid character portraits such as rockstar wannabe Lucifer, Mia the media diva or Snail the country mouse trying not to be a total loser in the urban minefield are drawn with a humane understanding of some tricky balancing acts achieved between aspiration and compromise, as these “one-child policy” millennials come of age -- Jonathan Keates * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsChapter - 1: Xiaoxiao Chapter - 2: Dahai Chapter - 3: Fred Chapter - 4: Snail Chapter - 5: Lucifer Chapter - 6: Mia Chapter - 7: Snail Chapter - 8: Fred Chapter - 9: Dahai Chapter - 10: Xiaoxiao Chapter - 11: Lucifer Chapter - 12: Mia Chapter - 13: Snail Chapter - 14: Fred Chapter - 15: Lucifer Chapter - 16: Dahai Chapter - 17: Snail Chapter - 18: Xiaoxiao Chapter - 19: Mia Chapter - 20: Lucifer Chapter - 21: Dahai Chapter - 22: Snail Chapter - 23: Fred Chapter - 24: Lucifer Chapter - 25: Dahai Chapter - 26: Xiaoxiao Chapter - 27: Snail Chapter - 28: Mia Chapter - 29: Lucifer Chapter - 30: Fred Chapter - 31: Dahai and Xiaoxiao Chapter - 32: Snail Chapter - 33: Lucifer Chapter - 34: Fred Chapter - 35: Mia Chapter - 36: Xiaoxiao and Dahai Section - i: Author's Note Acknowledgements - ii: Acknowledgements

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Book Synopsis''Fabulously smart and entertaining . . . If virtue-signalling wokery drives you as nuts as it drives me, you will love it'' Piers Morgan''Required reading for anyone needing an antidote to the mass hysteria of humanity''s latest religion'' Entertainment FocusAfter the success of her debut Woke: A Guide to Social Justice, radical slam poet and intersectional feminist Titania McGrath has turned her talents to the realm of children''s non-fiction. Aimed at activists from the age of six months to six years, Titania''s book will help cultivate a new progressive generation. In a series of groundbreaking and poignant chapters, she will take you on a journey with some of the most inspiring individuals in history, such as Emmeline Pankhurst, Meghan Markle, Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton and Joseph Stalin. Praise for Woke:''Beautiful classic satire'' Ricky Gervais''The latest genius twist in BritaiTrade ReviewFabulously smart and entertaining . . . If virtue-signalling wokery drives you as nuts as it drives me, you will love it * Piers Morgan *Pithy take-downs, wrapped up as backhanded compliments, are what make Titania McGrath so hilarious, and so infuriating as far as her detractors are concerned . . . It takes a certain genius to demolish revered cultural icons through satire - poking fun with unnerving accuracy under the pretence of fulsome support (one reason why the triggered and trigger-happy Twitter politburo have so far failed to permanently send Titania to the digital Gulags). Andrew Doyle is equal to this task, and the laugh-to-page ratio is ridiculously high . . . required reading for anyone needing an antidote to the mass hysteria of humanity's latest religion * Entertainment Focus *

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Book SynopsisWith attention to the ways in which new reproductive technologies facilitate the gradual disembodiment of reproduction, this book reveals the paradox of women''s reproductive experience in patriarchal cultures as being both, and often simultaneously, empowering and disempowering. A rich exploration of birth appropriation in the West, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment investigates the assimilation of women''s embodied power into patriarchal systems of symbolism, culture and politics through the inversion of women''s and men''s reproductive roles. Contending that new reproductive technologies represent another world historical moment, both in their forging of novel social relations and material processes of reproduction, and their manner of disembodying women in unprecedented ways - a disembodiment evident in recent visual and literary, popular and academic texts - this volume locates the roots of this disembodiment in western political discourse. A call to feminist politTrade Review’In a time that is oddly quiet in terms of critical feminist voices, this work on materialist feminist implications of new reproductive technologies is welcome and overdue. Treading carefully between the dominant theoretical posts of recent social and political thought, and engaging with shifting forms of capitalism, Lam brings useful critical insight into how and why new reproductive socio-technical systems form and how they erode a pluralism of being that sustained, collective feminism began.’ Annette Burfoot, Queen’s University, CanadaTable of ContentsNew Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face. Divided into three parts, the authors first explore the causality that generates displacement, examining climate change, illegal conflicts and the deprivation of natural resources. They argue that all of these problems either originate from human agency directly, or are strongly influenced by human activities, particularly those of wealthy countries in the North West. The study goes on to discuss how migrants are received and the problems they face on arrival, and concludes with confronting the fate and the status of asylum seekers after arrival, and the walls, both virtual and material, that they encounter. The authors propose ways of approaching the situation, beyond the present language and the limited interpretations of the Convention on the Status of Refugees. Written by leading experts in environmental ethics, asylum law, aTrade Review’The ever-increasing number of displaced people and the growing resistance of states to grant them asylum is an unfolding human tragedy of the highest order. The plight of millions of people raises fundamental questions about state sovereignty, citizenship and human rights. This book offers thorough analysis and practical solutions. Written by eminent scholars, a convincing case is made for legal reforms based on human rights and global responsibilities.’ Klaus Bosselmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand ’This very timely book dares to ask the hard questions about causes and conditions of mass migrations that potential receiving states, through their politicians, refuse to confront. The authors probe the increasingly serious problems faced by spiralling numbers of refugees, displaced persons or asylum seekers produced by trafficking, climate change, wars, or terrorism, and the woefully inadequate laws available to protect them or give them refuge. The authors examine the principles underlying policies of closed borders and exclusion, challenging the cynicism of border imperialism and arbitrary treatment of asylum seekers by those who simultaneously espouse fidelity to principles of human rights and humanitarian law. They make concrete suggestions, from re-defining refugee to include a far broader range of migrants, to re-configuring international refugee law to be as much a compensatory scheme as a human rights one based on the fundamental legal principle that those who cause harm to others through their deliberate or negligent acts must pay for them. This book is a voice for reform, for moral and ethical leadership and for states to take responsibility for their role in causing the unbearable conditions leading to mass movements of the most vulnerable and destitute people in the world. Anyone interested in this most critical issue of our time, should read this book.’ Kathleen Mahoney QC, FRSC, University of Calgary, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Question of Asylum Seekers, LauraWestra, SatvinderJuss, TullioScovazzi; Part I Proximate and Distant Causality Affecting Asylum Seekers and Internally Displaced Persons; Chapter 1 The Limitations of the Present International Instruments for the Protection of Refugees, LauraWestra; Chapter 2 Climate Change Refugees, Donald A.Brown; Chapter 3 Escape from Development and the Plunder of Resources, LauraWestra; Chapter 4 Exodus after Conflict, SatvinderJuss; Part II Present Challenges, Legal Regimes and Jurisprudence; Chapter 5 After the Flight, LauraWestra; Chapter 6 The Particular Problems of Migrants and Asylum Seekers Arriving by Sea, TullioScovazzi; Part III The Case for the Support of Asylum Seekers; Chapter 7 The Case for Asylum Seekers, LauraWestra; Chapter 101 Epilogue, SatvinderJuss;

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Book SynopsisOffers a new way of reading Stein's key publications: as responses to the politics of authorship and aesthetic participationTrade Review"Isabelle Parkinson provides keen-eyed reappraisals of Stein's political writing, and of the political claims made by others about Stein's writing. Gertude Stein and the Politics of Participation is a sober, multidimensional guide to some of the most vexing problems of modernism and mass democracy." -Jeremy Braddock, Cornell University

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Book Synopsis Africa faces several major development challenges that have adversely affected the political and material well being of the majority of the people living there. This collection of new essays rigorously analyzes those frontier development issues--including democracy, leadership, the economy, poverty alleviation through microfinance schemes, food security, education, health and political instability--and offers prescriptions that differ from the dominant neoliberal solutions.

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Book SynopsisQuestions have recently been raised about the political consequences a state experiences when hosting an international sporting event. As the Olympics and FIFA World Cup have visited Brazil and Russia, and the latter is slated to visit Qatar, issues regarding human rights, poverty, and human trafficking have seemingly appeared as frequently in media coverage as the results of competition. This text begins to build an understanding of just how a state's human rights are influenced by both the want and actual experience of hosting. It finds that hosts behave differently when the eyes of the world are on them and that these events do produce positive effects on a state's level of respect for human rights. Yet, it also identifies those areas in which hosts, organizations like the IOC and FIFA, and the international sports regime can help to strengthen and expand human rightsTrade Review“Bowersox provides a clear and thorough analysis of how sporting events are not only important to international politics, but may actually alter the way countries interact – both for good or ill. This impressive and balanced examination explores the ways in which hosting and participating in sporting events can have real practical implications for human and international security. The reader is left hoping that as the world confronts the challenges of xenophobia and nationalism, international sport may provide one path by which these division may be mended.” -- J. Patrick Rhamey Jr., Virginia Military InstituteSport and politics has a dynamic and complex relationship, which is especially true of the Olympic Games and the World Cup. However, the impact of international sporting mega-events is not well studied. Zachary Bowersox details the evolution of these events in international politics, from serving as propaganda stages for despots to platforms of political expression for oppressed populations. Bowersox also addresses the effects of these events for sex trafficking, women’s rights, and labor standards. This book contributes specifically to the field of human rights, but it will also stimulate further research for students of sport and politics broadly. -- Marc S. Polizzi, Murray State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Sport in Society Chapter 2: Sport and the International System Chapter 3: International Organization and Sport Chapter 4: Human Rights and International Sporting Events Chapter 5: Expressive Rights and International Sporting Events Chapter 6: International Sporting Events and Human Trafficking Chapter 7: Women’s Rights and International Sporting Events Chapter 8: ISOs and Human Rights

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Book SynopsisWith the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls. The two fields, he finds, no longer address urgent questions of governance in a turbulent and dangerous world. Strategies for Governing offers a new path forward for research, teaching, and practice. Leaders of states, Roberts writes, are constantly reinventing strategies for governing. Experts in public administration must give advice on the design as well as execution of strategies that effective, robust, and principled. Strategies for Governing challenges us to reinvigorate public administration and public management, preparing the fields for the challenges of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewOverall, Strategies for Governing has broad implications for research, teaching, and practice in a variety of disciplines and subfields. The book's insights provide readers with fresh perspectives on important research questions in public administration, public policy, American politics, international relations, and comparative politics. Perhaps most notably, Roberts encourages us to return to first principles and to address the 'what' and 'how' of government. * Perspectives on Politics *Roberts has nudged us in the right direction to reawaken why public administration... is a field uniquely situated to link theory and practice at a macro-societal level... On that point alone, we all owe Roberts a great intellectual debt. * Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory *This is a thought-provoking book, one that deserves the attention of everyone in the field of public administration * Teaching Public Administration *Roberts succinctly makes a timely case in favor of large concerns about governing... While dealing with currently urgent realities of the field, the analysis makes a contribution to last. * American Review of Public Administration *Strategies for Governing has broad implications for research, teaching, and practice in a variety of disciplines and subfields. The book's insights provide readers with fresh perspectives on important research questions in public administration, public policy, American politics, international relations, and comparative politics. Perhaps most notably, Roberts encourages us to return to first principles and to address the 'what' and 'how' of government. * Perspectives on Politics *Roberts is masterful at distilling complex concepts into a digestible format, through which both new students and senior scholars can engage and argue. The book provides an opportunity to have a critical conversation about the boundaries of Public Administration. * Governance *The argument's timeliness is uncanny, given the COVID19 pandemic, police violence, and racism plaguing the nation today... Roberts's book is a real bottomless well of research ideas ready to be pursued by scholars, especially junior ones. The book would also be useful for directors of graduate programs in PA interested in equipping students with the mindset and tools to address the big picture. * Political Science Quarterly *Roberts succeeds in setting forth his charge for public administration to deemphasize the technical, efficiency-driven, myopic view of theory and practice and to urgently take on a new, bold view to meet the dangers facing us in this new century. This brief, clearly written book is a must read for academics and an essential addition to the required reading for public administration graduate students. Overall, it makes an important contribution to understanding the significance of a much-needed shift toward a macro-level analysis and the renewal of the state as we hurtle into the face of powerful change. * Journal of Military and Political Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Time for a New Approach 1. Summary of Propositions 2. Acknowledging the State 3. States and Societies 4. Leaders and Their Goals 5. Strategies for Governing 6. Factors and Forces 7. Laws, Organizations, Programs, and Practices 8. Aspects of Institutional Stewardship 9. Challenges in Strategy-Making 10. The Struggle for Mastery 11. Danger, Strategic Fragility, and Realism 12. Time and Progress 13. Unexceptionalism 14. Efficiency or Extravagance 15. Tight or Loose Control 16. Separation or Connection 17. Present or Future 18. Commitment or Equivocation 19. Planning or Improvisation 20. Research 21. Teaching 22. Practice Conclusion: Grand Challenges A Glossary of States Further Reading Notes Index

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Book SynopsisNegative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues that anti-Americanism is best seen not as a rising tide that swamps or as a conflagration that overwhelms. Rather, "America" is a symbolic resource that resides quietly in the mundane but always has potential value for social and political mobilizers. Using a wide range of evidence and a novel analytic framework, Schatz considers how Islamist movements, human rights activists, and labor mobilizers across Central Asia avail themselves of this fact, thus changing their ability to pursue their respective agendas. By refocusing our analytic gaze away from high politics, he affords us a clearer view of the slower-moving, partially occluded, and socially embedded processes that ground how "America" becomes political. In turn, we gain a nuanced appreciation of the downstream effects of US foreign policy choices and a sober sense of the challenges posed by the politics of traveling images. Most treatments of anti-Americanism focus on politics in the realm of presidential elections and foreign policies. By focusing instead on symbols, Schatz lays bare how changing public attitudes shift social relations in politically significant ways, and considers how changing symbolic depictions of the United States recombine the raw material available for social mobilizers. Just like sediment traveling along waterways before reaching its final destination, the raw material that constitutes symbolic America can travel among various social groups, and can settle into place to form the basis of new social meanings. Symbolic America, Schatz shows us, matters for politics in Central Asia and beyond.Trade Review"Fresh, strikingly original, and with the wisdom of the long view, Slow Anti-Americanism compellingly shows the slow-burning complexities of anti-Americanism. Edward Schatz's careful observations offer critical guidance to scholars and policymakers about what America stands for in Central Asia and beyond." -- Alexander Cooley * Columbia University *"Relying on geological metaphors and the analysis of symbolic politics, Edward Schatz offers a theoretically nuanced and empirically innovative study of anti-Americanism in Central Asia. Slow Anti-Americanism is a valuable addition to a literature that is, once again, of growing importance in the analysis of U.S. foreign policy and world politics." -- Peter J. Katzenstein * Cornell University *"Edward Schatz looks at how negative perceptions of America conditioned the long-term success or failure of domestic political movements abroad. Turning the topic inside out on the strategic terrain of central Asia, this brilliant book heralds a paradigm shift in the study of public diplomacy. It deserves a large audience." -- Alex Langstaff * International Affairs *"Those interested in reflecting on the recent history of America's reputation abroad and what should be done differently in the future will want to readSlow Anti-Americanism... It takes readers far from the headspace of the foreign policy community and into the lives of activists and ordinary people in a part of the world where the reputation of the United States has changed greatly over the last 30 years." –Laura Adams, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs"Whereas scholars have tended to view anti-Americanism as either a psychological or a cultural 'clash of civilizations' phenomenon, Edward Schatz looks at how negative perceptions of America conditioned the long-term success or failure of domestic political movements abroad. Turning the topic inside out on the strategic terrain of central Asia, this brilliant book heralds a paradigm shift in the study of public diplomacy. It deserves a large audience." -- Alex Langstaff * International Affairs *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Slow Anti-Americanism chapter abstractWhile anti-Americanism is typically studied through the lens of "high politics," this introductory chapter contends that such approaches blind us to the political dynamics of this important phenomenon. Instead, the chapter introduces slow anti-Americanism, which takes better stock of the phenomenon. The chapter shows that attention to the symbolic power of "America" allows us to view how social and political mobilizers use changing symbolic raw material to further their goals. It emphasizes that changes to symbolic America may occur slowly, leaving resonant social meanings in their wake. Such meanings can be quarried by future generations for political benefit. The chapter previews how the Central Asian cases provide new analytic traction on a complex problem. 1America's Changing Image chapter abstractThis chapter traces how images of the United States changed in the Central Asian region from the Soviet period into the post-Soviet period. Setting the stage for the discussion of social movements that follows, this chapter makes three points. First, Central Asia's initial imaginings of the United States were the product of the Soviet period, and symbolic America for Central Asians was similar to what it was for other Soviet citizens—an ambiguous cluster of polyvalent but resonant images. Second, after an initial post-Soviet period of being overwhelmed by positive images of the United States, Central Asian opinions of the US declined. This downward trend occurred less because of concrete changes to US policy than because of the slow-moving processes of sedimentation. Third, because images of the United States had multiplied and diversified, a wider range of images became available for social mobilizers. They would be the symbolic raw material for Central Asia's social movements to use in the 2000's and beyond. 2Islamist Trajectories chapter abstractThis chapter traces the arcs of Islamist mobilizers. First, it introduces a plural understanding of Islamism, recognizing that whatever theological consensus the pious might seek, real-world contexts witness a striking variety of ways that religion and politics intersect. Second, the chapter highlights the rise of Islamic piety since the Soviet collapse, arguing against a simplistic notion that greater piety necessarily produces a politics inflected by religion. Finally, the chapter details how three Islamist movements—Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan—use the changing American image. The examples underscore that, while America's image matters in Central Asia, how precisely its significance becomes political depends on image-making efforts at play in each movement. 3Human Rights Trajectories chapter abstractThis chapter traces the arcs of human rights activism in Central Asia. It argues that the post-9/11 securitization of US foreign policy indeed did complicate the pursuit of a human-rights agenda but in complex way. This chapter uses the extended example of Kyrgyzstan and its two "revolutions" in 2005 and 2010 to highlight how the shift to symbolic America had a different impact, depending on whether activism was classic street protests or via professional rule-of-law advocacy. 4Labor, Disorganized chapter abstractThis chapter takes stock of a third and final type of activism: labor. By all appearances, labor was in a position to take full advantage of shifts to symbolic America. In Central Asia, as across post-socialist space more generally, societies had experienced dramatic macro-economic contraction and massive dislocation in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse. Once-robust and explicit labor protections were quickly dismantled or hollowed out. Ordinary people suffered greatly, and labor—the notional cornerstone of state socialism—had ample grievances. Yet, while labor activists in Central Asia were well aware of the United States and its symbolic power, they did not avail themselves of the opportunity to use symbolic America in their framing efforts. This chapter explores the impact of this missed opportunity. Conclusion: Shaping the Slow Politics of Anti-Americanism chapter abstractThis conclusion first recaps the arcs of Central Asian social mobilization and highlights how slow anti-Americanism helped to shake the political terrain across the region. It then turns to policy-relevant questions. What changes might shape how symbolic America affects global publics and global politics? While policymakers pay attention to the substance of their policies and sometimes pay attention to communicating their policies, they rarely concern themselves with matters of credibility. As research on framing effects suggests, however, the credibility of the messenger is crucial to effective public diplomacy and therefore essential to affecting how symbolic America shapes politics across the globe.

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Book SynopsisFor decades, the outside world mostly knew Myanmar as the site of a valiant human rights struggle against an oppressive military regime, predominantly through the figure of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. And yet, a closer look at Burmese grassroots sentiments reveals a significant schism between elite human rights cosmopolitans and subaltern Burmese subjects maneuvering under brutal and negligent governance. While elites have endorsed human rights logics, subalterns are ambivalent, often going so far as to refuse rights themselves, seeing in them no more than empty promises. Such alternative perspectives became apparent during Burma's much-lauded decade-long "transition" from military rule that began in 2011, a period of massive change that saw an explosion of political and social activism. How then do people conduct politics when they lack the legally and symbolically stabilizing force of "rights" to guarantee their incursions against injustice? In this book, Elliott Prasse-Freeman documents grassroots political activists who advocate for workers and peasants across Burma, covering not only the so-called "democratic transition" from 2011-2021, but also the February 2021 military coup that ended that experiment and the ongoing mass uprising against it. Taking the reader from protest camps, to flop houses, to prisons, and presenting practices as varied as courtroom immolation, occult cursing ceremonies, and land reoccupations, Rights Refused shows how Burmese subaltern politics compel us to reconsider how rights frameworks operate everywhere.Trade Review"A combination analytical breadth, sparkling playfulness, ethnographic granularity, and deep sympathy for the heroic resistance of the Burmese democratic movement. Take a deep breath and dive in at the deep end; you'll be glad you did."—James C. Scott, Yale University"In this thoughtful exploration of the brutal political realities of present-day Myanmar, Elliott Prasse-Freeman unpacks the various understandings of human rights that both direct and bedevil attempts to instigate democratic reform. Noting that external observers have repeatedly misread Burmese conceptions of the very concept of rights, he offers an incisive corrective to such cultural tone-deafness with his nuanced analysis of Burmese activism and its often surprisingly diverse goals. His argument is a valuable lesson for all those who blithely assume that all meanings and values are inherently universal and thereby run the risk, in Prasse-Freeman's telling phrase, of "mocking the miserable.""—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"Rights Refused is a theoretically ambitious and ethnographically rich study of social activism, refusal and resistance in Myanmar. Prasse-Freeman lucidly captures how activists in specific local contexts reconfigure human rights discourses to challenge oppressive state power, and his insightful analysis reshapes our understanding of rights are operating in the contemporary world."—Shannon Speed, University of California, Los Angeles"Rights Refused transcends the confines of a mere book; it serves as a vital expedition, inviting readers to engage in a profound journey of empathy and introspection. Prasse-Freeman's humanisation of the activists and individuals at the heart of the struggle invites readers to step into their shoes and comprehend the immense challenges they face."—Thanapat Chatinakrob, London School of Economics Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Variegated Violence 2. Living Refusal 3. Plow Protests 4. Cartoons, Curses, and the Corpus 5. Taking Rights, Seriously 6. Rights in Desperation Conclusion: Rights Erosion and Refusal beyond Burma

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Book SynopsisBrexit has changed everything - from our government, to our economy and principal trading relationship, to the organization of our state. This watershed moment, which surprised most observers and mobilized previously apathetic sections of the electorate, is already transforming British politics in profound and lasting ways. In this incisive book, leading analysts of UK and EU politics Geoffrey Evans and Anand Menon step back from the immediacy and hyperbole of the Referendum to explain what happened on 23 June 2016, and why. Brexit, they argue, was the product of both long-term dissatisfaction with the EU and a gradual breakdown in the relationship between parties and voters that spawned detachment, disinterest and disenchantment. Exploring its subsequent impact on the June 2017 General Election, they reveal the extent to which Brexit has shattered the contemporary equilibrium of British politics. These reverberations will continue to be felt for a very long time and could pose a real danger to the health of British democracy if the government fails to deliver on the promises linked to Brexit.Trade Review"Amidst all the noise, the heat and the rage generated by Brexit here are some much needed facts, insights and analysis on what really led to Brexit and how it is changing our politics forever."—Nick Robinson, Presenter, Today programme and former Political Editor at the BBC "Here is the thinking person's guide to Brexit... all the facts crunched so you don't have to, it is a trusty book to have close at hand in the years (yes, years) ahead. Tireless referees during the referendum, the authors were my valued sounding boards and, if not already, should be yours too."—Allegra Stratton, National Editor of ITV News "There is a need for a concise, well-written book that puts matters in perspective and sketches the impact on British politics and society. Brexit and British Politics, by Geoffrey Evans and Anand Menon, fits the bill."—Tony Barber, Financial Times "Nobody is better qualified than Geoff Evans and Anand Menon to provide a penetrating analysis of the UK's truly historic decision to leave the EU. This book is bound to be a must-read for anyone seeking an incisive guide to Brexit and its aftermath." —Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London and author of The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron "Geoffrey Evans and Anand Menon's authoritative text digs into the rebalancing of political values that lay behind the referendum."—Progress "For those who want a short, readable and well-researched introduction to Brexit and its place in British politics, this is the book to have. Its accessibility is deceptive: behind the text, there is a library of research that has been distilled into its pages."—Albert Weale, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures and Tables Preface: That Was a Year, That Was Chapter One: The Best of Enemies Chapter Two: Broken Politics Chapter Three: The Referendum Chapter Four: Voting to Leave Chapter Five: The Shaping of Things to Come Afterword: All Change: Brexit and British Politics

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Book SynopsisOver the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass heroism and mass crime; over-blown ambition and near-hopeless despair – always emerging with its sovereignty and its fiercely independent spirit intact. In this book, leading Russia scholar Dmitri Trenin accompanies readers on Russia’s rollercoaster journey from revolution to post-war devastation, perestroika to Putin’s stabilization of post-Communist Russia. Explaining the causes and the meaning of the numerous twists and turns in contemporary Russian history, he offers a vivid insider’s view of a country through one of its most trying and often tragic periods. Today, he cautions, Russia stands at a turning point – politically, economically and socially – its situation strikingly reminiscent of the Russian Empire in its final years. For the Russian Federation to avoid a similar demise, it must learn the lessons of its own history.Trade Review"Trenin's succinct, balanced, and thoughtful book is a valuable guide to modern Russian history as seen from the other side."Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former British ambassador in Moscow and author of Armageddon & Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation "A brilliant, concise interpretation of 120 years of Russian history, plus an insightful look at the future. Essential reading for all concerned about the dangerous – and unnecessary – revival of Cold War tensions."Jack Matlock, former US ambassador and author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended “Admirably succinct and thought-provoking”Edward Lucas, The Times “Trenin provides a succinct account of Russia’s turbulent twentieth-century history in this informative book.”Angela Stent, SurvivalTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Russia’s Many Russias Chapter One: Revolutionary Upheaval (1900-1920) Chapter Two: The Rise of the Soviet State (1921-1938) Chapter Three: The War and its Aftermath (1939-1952) Chapter Four: Mature Socialism and its Stagnation (1953-1984) Chapter Five: Democratic Upheaval (1985-1999) Chapter Six: From Stability to Uncertainty (2000-2018) Conclusion: Forever Russia Further Reading Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEmpires have been the commonest form of political organization for most of recorded history. How should we best understand them? What are their principles and how do they differ from other political forms, such as the nation-state? What sort of relations between rulers and ruled do they express? Do they, as many have held, follow a particular course of “rise, decline, and fall”? How and why do empires end, and with what consequences? Is the era of empire over? This book explores these questions through a fascinating analysis of the major empires of world history and the present. It pays attention not just to the modern overseas empires of the Europeans, but also to the ancient empires of the Middle East and Mediterranean, the Islamic empires of the Arabs, Mughals, and Ottomans, and the two-thousand-year Chinese Empire. As Kumar shows, understanding empires helps us understand better the politics of our own times.Trade Review"An invaluable contribution to a field in which thoughtfully conceived, globe-spanning efforts remain all too few."—Times Literary Supplement "A marvellous book, the best available on this subject: fluent, authoritative and blessed with enormous range."—John A. Hall, McGill University "Sweeping yet succinct, globe-spanning but focused, Krishan Kumar's Empires is the most comprehensive and illuminating survey we now have of the past, present, and even future of the world's longest-lasting political form. A miracle of synthesis and compression."—David Armitage, Harvard University "This is a sharply argued book that builds on Krishan Kumar's already highly impressive oeuvre on empires and nationalism. Exploring both Western and non-Western empires, Kumar makes a bold claim: empires belong not just to the past but also, potentially, to a post-national future."—George Lawson, Australian National University "With clarity and precision, Kumar presents an original argument built on deep and convincing historical evidence from many empires over thousands of years of human history. It should be a must read for scholars of empires."—Richard W. Lachmann, University at Albany, SUNYTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One Empires in Time and Space Chapter Two Traditions of Empire, East and West Chapter Three Rulers and Ruled Chapter Four Empires, Nations, and Nation-States Chapter Five Decline and Fall Chapter Six Empire after Empire Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisEmpires have been the commonest form of political organization for most of recorded history. How should we best understand them? What are their principles and how do they differ from other political forms, such as the nation-state? What sort of relations between rulers and ruled do they express? Do they, as many have held, follow a particular course of “rise, decline, and fall”? How and why do empires end, and with what consequences? Is the era of empire over? This book explores these questions through a fascinating analysis of the major empires of world history and the present. It pays attention not just to the modern overseas empires of the Europeans, but also to the ancient empires of the Middle East and Mediterranean, the Islamic empires of the Arabs, Mughals, and Ottomans, and the two-thousand-year Chinese Empire. As Kumar shows, understanding empires helps us understand better the politics of our own times.Trade Review"An invaluable contribution to a field in which thoughtfully conceived, globe-spanning efforts remain all too few."—Times Literary Supplement "A marvellous book, the best available on this subject: fluent, authoritative and blessed with enormous range."—John A. Hall, McGill University "Sweeping yet succinct, globe-spanning but focused, Krishan Kumar's Empires is the most comprehensive and illuminating survey we now have of the past, present, and even future of the world's longest-lasting political form. A miracle of synthesis and compression."—David Armitage, Harvard University "This is a sharply argued book that builds on Krishan Kumar's already highly impressive oeuvre on empires and nationalism. Exploring both Western and non-Western empires, Kumar makes a bold claim: empires belong not just to the past but also, potentially, to a post-national future."—George Lawson, Australian National University "With clarity and precision, Kumar presents an original argument built on deep and convincing historical evidence from many empires over thousands of years of human history. It should be a must read for scholars of empires."—Richard W. Lachmann, University at Albany, SUNYTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One Empires in Time and Space Chapter Two Traditions of Empire, East and West Chapter Three Rulers and Ruled Chapter Four Empires, Nations, and Nation-States Chapter Five Decline and Fall Chapter Six Empire after Empire Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume of conversations between Alain Badiou and Peter Engelmann focuses on the concrete political situation in the world of today. Here the validity and applicability of Badiou’s ideas are tested in relation to the great social and political problems of our time, including terrorism, migration, the surge in support for nationalist and populist parties and the growing gap between rich and poor. Badiou argues that in the age of today’s globalized capitalism, with its division of labour on a global scale and the worldwide interconnection of information through the Internet, there are no longer any national solutions. Because nations and states lose meaning in favour of transnational corporations in globalized capitalism, resistance to capitalism must by definition be global too. Only a politics that defines itself as a politics for all and does not act in the interests of one particular group – whether a nation, religion or community of shared values – can lead the world out of the current crisis of globalized capitalism.Trade Review‘Badiou's powerful exposition of the unfinished project of revolutionary Marxism makes a compelling case for the universality of communist politics. Elaborated with respect to pressing contemporary problems, his vision for a communist politics for us is inspiring, necessary, and – best of all – possible.’Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges “[a] lively and engaging discussion.”Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Peter Engelmann First Conversation The Situation of the Left Today and the Necessity of an Alternative The Democratic Discourse Communism as Modern Politics? Second Conversation The New Imperialism Politics of Identity The Principle of the Common Good, or: Beyond the Economy Afterword: On Trump Notes

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Book SynopsisBetween Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster – the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that scarred the twentieth century and shaped so much of the world we know today. In September 2016 the German-Iranian writer Navid Kermani set out to discover this land and to travel along the trenches that are now re-emerging in Europe, from his home in Cologne through eastern Germany to the Baltics, and from there south to the Caucasus and to Isfahan in Iran, the home of his parents. This beautifully written travel diary, enlivened by conversations with the people Kermani meets along the way, brings to life the tragic history of these troubled lands and shows how this history leaves its traces in the present. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with current affairs and with the events that have shaped, and continue to shape, the world in which we live today.Trade Review"Along the Trenches is an important and timely book, reminding us of the complex cultural and communal currents that have always flowed from Isfahan to Cologne and beyond, enriching along the way the lives of everyone they touch."—John Burnside, University of St Andrews "A book so moving and so powerful that it's worth taking 54 days over it, so that each day you can immerse yourself in a new world."—Katja Weise, NDR Kultur "Kermani has succeeded in writing a stirring plea for Europe, one which confirms his place among the ranks of Germany's most influential intellectuals."—Rainer Hermann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "A Herodotus for our times."—Philipp Holstein, Rheinische Post "A breathtaking travel diary and a passionate plea for the diversity of cultures, for Europe and the beauty of stories."—Bayrischer Rundfunk "On almost every page there is something for the reader to think about, to learn, to marvel at."—Tages-Anzeiger "Navid Kermani ... is the best kind of scholar: one who writes with a touch as elegant as it is light."—Catholic Herald "... revealing and thought-provoking...."—Financial TimesTable of ContentsContents Cologne First Day: Schwerin Second Day: From Berlin to Wroc aw Third Day: Auschwitz Fourth Day: Cracow Fifth Day: From Cracow to Warsaw Sixth Day: Warsaw Seventh Day: Warsaw Eighth Day: From Warsaw to Masuria Ninth Day: Kaunas Tenth Day: Vilnius and Vicinity Eleventh Day: Via Paneriai to Minsk Twelfth Day: Minsk and Khatyn Thirteenth Day: Into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Fourteenth Day: Kurapaty and Minsk Fifteenth Day: Into the Exclusion Zone East of Krasnapolle Sixteenth Day: From Minsk to Kiev Seventeenth Day: Kiev Eighteenth Day: From Kiev to Dnipro Nineteenth Day: To the Front in Donbas Twentieth Day: Via Mariupol to the Black Sea Twenty-first Day: Along the Black Sea to Odessa Twenty-second Day: Odessa Twenty-third Day: Leaving Odessa by Air Twenty-fourth Day: Via Moscow to Simferopol Twenty-fifth Day: Via Bakhtshyssarai to Sevastopol Twenty-sixth Day: Along the Crimean Coast Twenty-seventh Day: From Crimea to the Russian Mainland Twenty-eighth Day: To Krasnodar Twenty-ninth Day: From Krasnodar to Grozny Thirtieth Day: Grozny Thirty-first Day: In the Chechen Mountains Thirty-second Day: From Grozny to Tbilisi Thirty-third Day: Tbilisi Thirty-fourth Day: Tbilisi Thirty-fifth Day: To Gori and the Georgian-Ossetian Cease-fire Line Thirty-sixth Day: From Tbilisi to Kakheti Thirty-seventh Day: From Kakheti to Azerbaijan Thirty-eighth Day: Along the Azeri-Armenian Cease-fire Line Thirty-ninth Day: By Night Train to Baku Fortieth Day: Baku Forty-first Day: Baku and Qobustan Forty-second Day: Leaving Baku by Air Forty-third Day: Yerevan Forty-fourth Day: Yerevan Forty-fifth Day: To Lake Sevan and On to Nagorno-Karabakh Forty-sixth Day: Through Nagorno-Karabakh Forty-seventh Day: To the Armenian-Azeri Cease-fire Line and On to Iran Forty-eighth Day: Via Jolfa to Tabriz Forty-ninth Day: Via Ahmadabad to Alamut Castle Fiftieth Day: To the Caspian Sea and On to Tehran Fifty-first Day: Tehran Fifty-second Day: Tehran Fifty-third Day: Tehran Fifty-fourth Day: Flying Out of Tehran With Family in Isfahan The Journey Begins Acknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLargely privately funded with relatively little public regulation, the United States healthcare system is both expensive and inefficient, providing poor care to large parts of the population. For decades, Americans have wrestled with how to fix their broken healthcare system. In this razor-sharp contribution to the healthcare debate, leading economist and former adviser to Bernie Sanders Gerald Friedman recommends that we build on what works: a Medicare system that already efficiently provides healthcare for millions of Americans. Rejecting the discredited idea that healthcare should be treated like any other commodity, Friedman shows that healthcare is distinctive and can be best provided only through universal program of social insurance. Deftly exposing the absurdities of the opponents of reform, Friedman shows in detail how the solution to our health care crisis is staring us in the face: enroll everyone in Medicare to improve the health of all Americans. This bold and brilliantly argued book is essential reading for anyone who wants to see Congress and the White House act to provide America with a 21st century healthcare system.Trade Review“As we enter a new era in the fight for universal healthcare in America, Professor Friedman’s book distills the failures of our current system – and the complexities of what should replace it – into a compelling and easy-to-understand explainer for anyone looking to understand Medicare for All. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to go beyond the headlines to get a nuanced account of the politics and policy behind Medicare for All.”Jim McGovern, Congressman for the 2nd District of Massachusetts "We need a clear, concise analysis of universal Medicare in all its forms that cuts through the complexities, and that is what Professor Friedman has given us. As he shows, sixty-five million of us already enjoy its benefits in the U.S., an eloquent demonstration of its superiority in cost and efficiency to the private competition.”Michael Dukakis, Former Governor of Massachusetts and Democratic Party Presidential Nominee 1988 “Professor Friedman is one of the leading thinkers in the country on the economics that underpin universal healthcare coverage. His visionary work in The Case for Medicare for All is just what our country needs right now. The inequities in our current healthcare system are glaring and inexcusable, and I’m grateful to have Professor Friedman’s important and timely research in order to better understand how Massachusetts can transition from our current health care system to a single payer system.”Joanne M. Comerford, Massachussetts State Senator and former Campaign Director at MoveOn “Economics Professor Gerald Friedman has devoted his career to defending Medicare for All. In this convincing book, he explains his reasoning and why America would be transformed for the better.”Walter Tsou, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsFigures and Tables Acknowledgements Preface: We Need Better Introduction: The Failure of Free Market Healthcare Chapter One: Why Markets Cannot Work in Healthcare Chapter Two: Can We Afford Medicare for All? Chapter Three: From Here to There is Politics Chapter Four: Universal Healthcare is Better Economics Because it Acknowledges Human Rights Notes

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Book SynopsisOn 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these dates, he published four books, travelled widely, and wrote extensively on literature, the visual arts, linguistics, and philosophy. He taught both psychology and philosophy, beginning his explorations of the question of sexuality. Weaving together analyses of published and unpublished material, this is a comprehensive study of this crucial period. As well as Foucault’s major texts, it discusses his travels to Brazil, Japan, and the USA, his time in Tunisia, and his editorial work for Critique and the complete works of Nietzsche and Bataille. It was in this period that Foucault developed the historical-philosophical approach he called ‘archaeology’ – the elaboration of the archive – which he understood as the rules that make possible specific claims. In its detailed study of Foucault’s archive the book is itself an archaeology of Foucault in another sense, both excavation and reconstruction. This book completes a four-volume series of major intellectual histories of Foucault. Foucault’s Last Decade was published by Polity in 2016; Foucault: The Birth of Power followed in 2017; and The Early Foucault in 2021.Trade Review"This final volume of Elden’s magisterial history offers a fascinating insight into Foucault’s life and work throughout the 1960s."Camille Robcis, Columbia University"For we students of Foucault and avid readers of his books, the articulation with debates of the time and the reorientations of his thought seemed clear enough. What an illusion! Building on the new archive and testimonies with amazing intellectual empathy, Stuart Elden recreates the latent discourse. We can embark on a new reading and understanding of the great archaeologist of our culture."Étienne Balibar, author of On Universals"Stuart Elden concludes his series on Foucault with another work of meticulous scholarship, unearthing archival sources, variants of Foucault’s publications, and links to his contemporaries in the exciting intellectual context of the 1960s."Clare O’Farrell, Queensland University of TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations and Archival References Introduction 1 Madness and Medicine 2 Literature 3 Art 4 Order 5 Sexuality, Psychology, Biology 6 Linguistics and Structuralism 7 Discourse, Tunisia 8 The Archaeology of Knowledge 9 Nietzsche Coda: Into the 1970s Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSince the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power. In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of China’s dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it. Exploring the persona, formative socialization, psychology, and professional experiences of each leader, Shambaugh shows how their differing leadership styles and tactics of rule shaped China domestically and internationally: Mao was a populist tyrant, Deng a pragmatic Leninist, Jiang a bureaucratic politician, Hu a technocratic apparatchik, and Xi a modern emperor. Covering the full scope of these leaders’ personalities and power, this is an illuminating guide to China’s modern history and understanding how China has become the superpower of today.Trade Review“Fresh, fun, and insightful. Shambaugh has written a must-read book for understanding contemporary China.”Elizabeth C. Economy, Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution“An engrossing mosaic of profiles that brings to life the very different men who have led China over the past decades.”Orville Schell, Director of the Center on U.S.–China Relations, Asia Society“A significant and important book from one of modern China’s leading analysts.”Kerry Brown, Director of the Lau China Institute, King’s College London “Shambaugh’s comparative leadership lens leads to some intriguing insights.”The China Quarterly“A highly readable and well-documented book by the doyen of China scholars.”Global Asia“A highly regarded and experienced specialist in the study of Chinese elite politics, Shambaugh is in his element delineating the overlaps and divergences in the leadership styles of Mao and four of his successors.”Jeffrey Wassertrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California-Irvine“In this fresh look at the interplay of cultural, psychological, and systemic factors shaping top Chinese leaders, Shambaugh explores how the idiosyncrasies of PRC rulers have intersected with broader changes in state behavior. Displaying extraordinary precision and perception, this book will long serve as a classic in leadership studies.”Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution, and author of Chinese Politics in the Xi Era“David Shambaugh is widely regarded as one of the world’s most astute analysts of Chinese politics, and his lucid study pays particular attention to the personalities of the five top leaders who have shaped China since the communist revolution of 1949.”Rana Mitter, The Guardian“David Shambaugh is now the doyen of China scholars. With his latest book, China’s Leaders: From Mao to Now, he brings his scholarship to the reach of lay audiences . . . a highly readable and well-documented book spanning modern China.”Nayan Chanda, Global Asia“An authoritative and highly informative introduction to the major political leaders of contemporary China.”Michael Dillon, Professor of History and Affiliate of the Lau China Centre, King’s College, London“A superb overview of the Chinese Communist Party’s seven-decade rule through profiles of five main leaders.”Bookish Asia“The book offers delightful insights that can be attributed to Shambaugh’s kaleidoscopic knowledge and his years of work as an academic in Chinese politics. Shambaugh has given students a lucid, meticulous, and very well-structured volume canvassing China’s prominent leaders.”Modern Diplomacy“a very good book indeed”SupChina“The book has a clear structure, and by emphasizing the comparison of the five leaders it is immediately clear what the book is about. Shambaugh's writing is clear and accessible, and also offers readers without much specialist knowledge on the subject a good overview of China's modern history.”China2025“A colourful and accessible introduction to China's five main leaders to date.”The Telegraph“fascinating”Asian AffairsTable of ContentsList of Boxes, Tables and Figures Preface and Acknowledgements 1. On China’s Leaders and Leadership 2. Mao Zedong: Populist Tyrant 3. Deng Xiaoping: Pragmatic Leninist 4. Jiang Zemin: Bureaucratic Politician 5. Hu Jintao: Technocratic Apparatchik 6. Xi Jinping: Modern Emperor 7. Conclusion: China’s Leaders in Perspective Notes

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Book SynopsisWith a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This book provides a clear, authoritative and up-to-date history of China since 1949, drawing on extensive research to describe and explain the key developments and to dispel the many myths and misconceptions surrounding this twenty-first-century superpower. In contrast to many commentators who overstate the novelty of the Communist regime, Guiheux emphasizes instead its complex political heritage, highlighting the many continuities it shares with the reformers and revolutionaries of the early twentieth century. At the same time, the ability of China’s authoritarian regime to transform the economy and society is key to understanding its breakneck trajectory of modernization – an ability that, as Guiheux explains, far outweighed the importance and effectiveness of Mao’s utopian vision. Guiheux also aims to ‘de-exoticize’ China. While not on the path of a Western-style modernity, China has experienced the same phenomena that have characterized every historical process of modernization: industrialization, urbanization, bureaucratization and globalization. This expertly researched history of the People’s Republic of China will be essential reading for all students and scholars of Chinese history and politics, and for anyone interested in contemporary China.Trade Review‘A comprehensive and well-balanced account of today’s China and how it evolved, from the political system to culture, from history to twenty-first-century society, set in the context of the long-term national development of the country whose evolution will affect the whole world.’Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin History of Modern China‘Moving beyond tired frames that stress China’s uniqueness and incommensurability, Guiheux skilfully situates the history of the PRC in broadly comparative terms. Particularly effective is the balance struck between a chronological account and the thematically specific analyses of politics, society, culture and economy. A wonderful achievement of synthesis and insight with much to offer to both specialist and lay reader alike.’Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University‘To many, China is a complicated, threatening and opaque nation. Gilles Guiheux aims to “‘de-exoticize’ China and analyse its transformations in the light of other human societies”, and he succeeds. By the book’s final page, the mysterious and alien become transparent and familiar, serving the reader well as the West strategizes a constructive path forward with the most populous superpower.’Chris Fenton, Former President of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group (China)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. The establishment of a new regime (1949-1957) Building a new state The achievement of unity The administration of the territories The strategy of the New Democracy (1949-1953) The New Institutions (1954) Society is brought into line The marriage law (May 1950) Agrarian reform The campaign for the repression of counter-revolutionaries (February 1951) The Three-anti Campaign (December 1951) and the Five-anti Campaign (April 1952) against the bourgeoisie Bringing intellectuals to heel Forging links with the socialist camp The Sino-Soviet alliance The Korean War An orthodox economic policy The Eighth Party Congress (1956) Conclusion Chapter Two. Maoism and its excesses (1958-1976) The origins of the Great Leap Forward The successive stages of the Great Leap Forward The Great Famine (1959-1961) Natural causes Human errors Political responsibilities Pragmatism and political divisions (1960-1965) Mao’s adjustment program and political withdrawal The Socialist Education Movement (1962-1965) The Maoization of the People’s Liberation Army and preparation for war The Cultural Revolution (1966-1969) The beginnings (October 1965-July 1966) The mobilization of the Red Guards (August 1966-January 1967) Militarization in the face of revolutionary seizures of power (January to August 1967) The return to order (1967-1969): bringing the Red Guards to heel and the Ninth Congress Responsibilities and consequences The end of Maoism and the crises of succession (1969-1976) The Lin Biao era (1969-1971) The elimination of Lin Biao in September 1971 The end of Maoism (1972-1976) Conclusion Chapter Three. Giving priority to economic modernization (1976-1992) The Hua Guofeng transition (September 1976-December 1978) The struggle between two tendencies: neo-Maoists against pragmatists A veteran to embody renewal The first reforms (1979-1986) Deng Xiaoping comes to power The rehabilitation of the law The acceleration of reforms (1984-1986) The failure of Zhao Ziyang and the crisis of the regime (1986-1989) The aborted political reform The reimposition of dictatorship Conclusion Chapter Four. Building a new model (since 1992) The Jiang Zemin decade: authoritarian, conservative and pragmatic leadership (1989-2002) An engineer in power The rise of nationalism Jiang Zemin’s consolidation of power Jiang Zemin’s initiatives The Hu Jintao - Wen Jiabao Era (2002-2012): a lost decade? Populist leaders Crises in Tibet and Sichuan in 2008 Two ‘campaigns of mass distraction’ The fifth generation of leaders in power (since 2012) The change of political personnel Xi Jinping, a ‘prince’ in power Internal authoritarianism Expansionism abroad Conclusion Chapter Five. Forms of government: from arbitrary rule to the aborted attempt at institutionalization The Communist Party: organization, ideology, adaptation Party organization Party members Ideology Five generations of leaders The state apparatus: a democratic façade Executive power The elected assemblies A ‘state of laws without rule of law’ The army in the political system The Party-State and society: control, participation, resistance A triple system of repression, confinement and surveillance Social coalitions supporting the regime Opponents without opposition Public space and civil society Conclusion Chapter Six. The creation of wealth: from planned economy to the market The socialist cycle The place of inheritance The socialist planned economy The Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) Assessment of the Maoist period The reform cycle The decollectivization of the countryside Business reform 1984-1988: take-off 1989-1993, the end of the reforms The move towards a market economy (1993-2003) The Hu Jintao-Wen Jiabao administration: a new activism The economic policy of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang An assessment of the structural transformations The Chinese market economy The diversification of economic actors The transformation of the economic role of the state Restructuring the administration of the economy The weaknesses of the state The internationalization of the economy China and international trade Conclusion Chapter Seven. Society on the move: mobility and inequality Maoist China: From movement to immobilization (1949-1978) The establishment of the hukou system Labelling of the population A nomenklatura: a privileged caste Political mobility Society on the move again (since 1979) The winners The old working class and the new urban poverty The new working class: migrant workers The debate about inequality A diverse social space A political project: the construction of the middle classes The hypothesis of the social divide Latin Americanization as a possible scenario Measuring inequalities Conclusion Chapter Eight. The towns versus the countryside The broken promises of the peasant revolution Maoism sacrifices the peasants Building a working class The non-development of cities The urban miracle: urbanization without revolution Urban growth: a political choice Improving housing conditions New urban governance New rural issues The ‘three nong’ Collective action in the countryside New rural policies Conclusion Chapter Nine. Populations: the modernization of society Counting the population, controlling the demographics The demographic transition The pragmatism of Maoist population policies The one-child policy The harmful consequences of the one-child policy Protecting the population: social policies The Maoist period: protection for those who work The state’s withdrawal after 1978 The reconstruction of a welfare system The private and intimate sphere The family Forms of sexuality: a liberation? Homosexuality is now tolerated Persistent gender inequalities The individualization of society The choice of spouse: a freely chosen alliance between two families Self-interest The reconfiguration of the religious scene Conclusion Chapter Ten. Education and culture Education and science Education (1949-1976): priority given to the early years The massification, marketization and internationalization of higher education since 1979 Persistent problems: selectivity, inequality The professionalization and internationalization of scientific activity since 1979 Culture and creation Culture at the service of the political project (1949-1979) A decade of experiments (1979-1989) Culture opens up to the market Cultural policies: the case of museums Conclusion Epilogue Map Title-holders of the main positions in the government of the People’s Republic of China (1949-2018) Chronology Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be gayfriendly? Having gay friends, supporting gay marriage, remaining unfazed when one’s son or daughter comes out? Going to gay bars or questioning one’s own sexual orientation? There is no single model of ‘gayfriendliness’, but rather different attitudes which vary according to age, sex, country and life circumstance. Acceptance of homosexuality has undeniably grown, and homosexuality is increasingly seen as one form of sexuality among others. But embedded in this liberal vision is a perspective that is more troubling. Based on interviews with gayfriendly straight people in the liberal neighbourhoods of Park Slope in New York and the Marais in Paris, Sylvie Tissot shows that stereotypes remain and control of gays and lesbians has not disappeared. Acceptance is directed towards those who are of the same socioeconomic background, who proclaim their wish to emulate traditional norms of family life, and who do not make any other demands. Gays must be normal but not completely so, similar and at the same time different, in order to meet the not always conscious conditions of acceptability. Gayfriendliness has managed to dispel violence and discrimination and has accompanied the invention of less conventional lives. But, as Tissot shows, it has not yet liberated itself from the clutches of heterosexual domination which still structures our society and our ways of thinking.Trade Review“As anti-gay and anti-trans sentiment surges, the illusion of a rainbow coloured world of queer inclusion is rendered ever more apparent and the need for critical and complex analysis becomes ever more pressing. Sylvie Tissot has given us just such an analysis. In this compelling comparative study of two ‘gayfriendly’ oases, she unpacks the often contradictory affects of both queers and straights as they imagine sexual identities in supposedly ‘tolerant’ urban spaces and, in so doing, offers a critical commentary on the limits of tolerance and the possibilities of radical inclusion in a world still governed by normative heterosexuality. A smart and nuanced addition to the burgeoning literature on queer spaces and the promises (and limits) of straight allyship.”Suzanna Danuta Walters, author of The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions Sabotaged Gay EqualityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Becoming Gayfriendly Reticence, recognition, indifference: three different generations ‘It simply didn’t exist’ ‘It would be un-cool to be un-gayfriendly’ ‘A non-issue’ The learning processes Atypical heterosexuals The ordeal of coming out Chapter 2. Gay Respectability The right to love each other American-style and sexual freedom in France The Power of the Law Sexual Liberalism Gay marriage, heterosexual relief Republican universalism and the difference between the sexes Good neighbours, good husbands and wives, good parents Appropriating an area in the name of diversity Progressive synagogues and churches in Park Slope A cause for gentrifiers From lesbian enclave to gayfriendly district Family integration, class integration Gayfriendliness within the family You shall be gayfriendly, my child Integration and surveillance of same-sex families You will (perhaps) be gay, my child The guide for gayfriendly parents From tomboy to invisible lesbian Chapter 3. Heterosexuals as allies Feminine Compassion The division of moral labour Male unease The ‘Cruisers’ of the Parisian night scene The ‘fag hag’ and her ‘gay best friend’ Disillusions, safe haven and substitute The Prism of femininity Gayfriendliness and lesbophobia Women rebelling against marriage (Re)-building your life when living alone Sexual experiments Chapter 4. The frontiers of gayfriendliness A race and class norm Homophobia as bad taste Talking about space, not race The Southern United States as a deterrent Visibilities and invisibilities Keeping the streets clean My gay friends The home of heterosexuality Conclusion Bibliography Notes

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