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Taylor & Francis Inc Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and
Book SynopsisCharles Tilly is among the most influential American sociologists of the last century. For the first time, his pathbreaking work on a wide array of topics is available in one comprehensive reader. This manageable and readable volume brings together many highlights of Tilly’s large and important oeuvre, covering his contribution to the following areas: revolutions and social change; war, state making, and organized crime; democratization; durable inequality; political violence; migration, race, and ethnicity; narratives and explanations.The book connects Tilly’s work on large-scale social processes such as nation-building and war to his work on micro processes such as racial and gender discrimination. It includes selections from some of Tilly’s earliest, influential, and out of print writings, including The Vendée; Coercion, Capital and European States; the classic "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime;" and his more recent and lesser-known work, including that on durable inequality, democracy, poverty, economic development, and migration. Together, the collection reveals Tilly’s complex, compelling, and distinctive vision and helps place the contentious politics approach Tilly pioneered with Sidney Tarrow and Doug McAdam into broader context. The editors abridge key texts and, in their introductory essay, situate them within Tilly’s larger opus and contemporary intellectual debates. The chapters serve as guideposts for those who wish to study his work in greater depth or use his methodology to examine the pressing issues of our time. Read together, they provide a road map of Tilly’s work and his contribution to the fields of sociology, political science, history, and international studies. This book belongs in the classroom and in the library of social scientists, political analysts, cultural critics, and activists.Trade ReviewCharles Tilly was one of the great sociologists of the last fifty years. He was the most important analyst of social movements and contentious politics, but also shaped inquiry into cities, inequality, and the understanding of social processes. Social change today makes his work all the more important. Castañeda and Schneider clearly present the scope of Tilly’s contributions and make his work accessible to a new generation of social scientists. -- Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Berggruen InstituteOver the course of several decades, Charles (Chuck) Tilly sent a great many ships (ideas/pieces of scholarship) into a great many seas. Some of us would follow a ship or three. Others would sit in the middle of an ocean or at a port to see what Chuck would send by. "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics and Social Change" serves as an amazing guide/companion/navigation device/travel log as one attempts to fathom all of the journeys taken by our dear friend. From revolutions to narratives, from theories to methods - it is all there. Like the guidebook to "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance," now we can revisit work that we thought we knew, visit works that we have heard about but never fully engaged with as well as see work that we didn’t even know that Chuck was doing. -- Christian Davenport, University of MichiganNo scholar in the past half century has more deeply shaped historical and political sociology, and no volume more effectively brings together a better sampling of his prodigious opus. This collection not only demonstrates how Tilly has shaped the agenda in many of sociology’s liveliest themes, but also captures his uncanny ability to seamlessly weave together theory, method, and substance. For the novice or the senior scholar, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand collective violence, contentious politics, and social change. -- William Roy, UCLACastañeda and Schneider have brought together some of Tilly's most influential and compelling pieces. By reading his analyses of cities, protest, wars, states, democracy and inequality - one sees the way that empirical research can be critical for understanding patterns in historical and contemporary contexts. In this moment of great change, Tilly offers us tools to understand the present and shape the future. This collection will satisfy both new readers and current followers of Tilly's work. -- Lesley J. Wood, York UniversityCharles Tilly shaped the thinking of several generations of scholars and activists. He was both prolific in his writing and generous in his engagement with the work of colleagues and students. He reached across disciplines, subfields and regions, diving deeply into empirical cases while working towards a more dynamic and relational conceptualization of political process. Precisely because his work is so far-reaching, it can be a challenge for emerging scholars to get a handle on the scope and evolution of his work. This collection by Ernesto Castañeda and Cathy Schneider provides the ideal entryway into Tilly's work. As Tilly would have hoped, it will help young scholars generate more questions, new research, and better explanations. -- Ann Mische, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsI. Revolutions and Social Change1. The Vendeé2. Strikes in France 1830–19683. Does Modernization Breed Revolution? 4. From Mobilization to Revolution 5. Contentious Performances 6. Eight Pernicious PostulatesII. State Making7. War Making and State Making as Organized Crime8. Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990–1990 III. Democratization9. Democracy Is a Lake10. Where Do Rights Come from?11. Democratization and De-democratization12. Trust and Democratic RuleIV. Durable Inequality13. Durable Inequality 14. Poverty and the Politics of ExclusionV. Political Violence15. Contentious Conversation16. The Politics of Collective Violence 17. Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists VI. Migration and Race and Ethnicity18. Transplanted Networks19. Social Boundary Mechanisms 20. From Segregation to Integration VII. Narratives and Explanations21. Why Give Reasons?22. Credit, Blame and Social Life
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American University in Cairo Press Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A
Book SynopsisThe politics and governance of Jordan’s Azraq camp for Syrian refugeesAzraq refugee camp, built in 2014 and host to forty thousand refugees, is one of two official humanitarian refugee camps for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp investigates the relationship between time and power in Azraq, asking how a politics of time shapes, limits, or enables everyday life for the displaced and for aid workers.Based on ethnographic fieldwork, carried out during 2017–2018, the book challenges the perceptions of Azraq as the ‘ideal’ refugee camp. Melissa Gatter argues that the camp operates as a ‘nine-to-five emergency’ where mundane bureaucratic procedures serve to sustain a power system in which refugees are socialized to endure a cynical wait—both for everyday services and for their return—without expectations for a better outcome.Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp also explores how refugees navigate this system, both in the day-to-day and over years, by evaluating various layers of waiting as they affect refugee perceptions of time in the camp—not only in the present, but the past, near future, and far future. Far from an ‘ideal’ camp, Azraq and its politics of time constitute a cruel reality in which a power system meant to aid refugees is one that suppresses, foreclosing futures that it is supposed to preserve.Trade Review"How does time pass in a refugee camp? This seemingly straightforward question is at the heart of Melissa Gatter’s wonderful ethnography of refugee lives and aid regimes in Azraq camp in Jordan. Her focus on tempo, pace, and time opens up the multi-faceted world of street-level-humanitarian bureaucracy, hope and despair in ongoing displacement, and people’s desires for ordinary futures."—Ilana Feldman, George Washington University"Encompasses wide-ranging ethnographic material with excellent, equally outstanding theoretical analysis. I have rarely been so immediately and deeply taken by a book as this one."—Sophia Hoffmann, University of Erfurt"In this detailed ethnography of temporal bordering practices in the Azraq Refugee Camp, Melissa Gatter offers valuable insights into the everyday bureaucracy, affects, future imaginaries, and resilience among exiled Syrians. Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp is a notable contribution to contemporary studies on forced displacement, camps, and temporality. Gatter’s book is also a contribution to the growing literature on forced migration in Western Asia."—Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Why Time? 1. Azraq’s Emergency2. A Humanitarian Bureaucracy3. Preserving Order4. Waiting for What?5. Ordinary FuturesConclusion: Azraq in the Past TenseBibliographyIndex
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The New Press Going Big: FDR, Biden, and the New New Deal
Book SynopsisWith history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what’s at stake for America in 2022 and beyondJoe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to cling to power. It is the best of times and the worst of times. In Going Big, bestselling author and political journalist Robert Kuttner assesses the promise and peril of this critical juncture. Biden, like FDR in his time, faces multiple challenges. Roosevelt had to make terrible compromises with racist legislators to win enactment of his program. Biden, to achieve the necessary governing coalition, needs to achieve durable multiracial coalitions. Roosevelt had to conquer fascism in Europe; Biden must defeat it at home. And after four decades of neoliberal policy disasters reflecting Wall Street’s political influence, Biden needs to go beyond what even FDR achieved, to restore a democratic economy of broad possibility. From a writer with an unparalleled understanding of the history and politics that have made this moment possible, this book is the essential guide to what is at stake for Joe Biden, for America, and for our democracy.Trade ReviewPraise for Going Big:“A lively mélange of history, politics and progressive playbook.”—The New York Times Book Review“A cogent reminder of the importance of federal policy, presidential leadership, and the elusiveness of economic justice.”—Kirkus Reviews “Kuttner makes a convincing case that bold policies are needed to address the country’s ills.”—Publishers Weekly“The latest from one of the most tenacious and principled journalists in American politics has arrived at just the right moment. This should be required reading among Democrats in Washington and across the country. ”—Heather McGhee, New York Time bestselling author of The Sum of Us “As Joe Biden might put it, Going Big is a BFD—one with an urgent, essential, and ultimately hopeful message. If I could convince the president to read just one book at this perilous moment, this would be it. ”—Jacob S. Hacker, Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University, and co-author of Let Them Eat Tweets “Robert Kuttner is a modern Tom Paine who explains brilliantly the frightening crisis we face and then offers a remarkable, bracing, impassioned prescription for salvation and, indeed, renewal. Spreading the word about Going Big is absolutely imperative. ”—Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor, Harvard Law School, and author of New York Times 2021 Notable Book Say It Loud “Can Joe Biden and the Democrats take a page from Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal to ‘go big’ and thereby reconstruct America and its politics? Robert Kuttner, the nation’s most perceptive critic of the predatory capitalism that so bedevils us, answers with a resounding and insightful YES!”—Nelson Lichtenstein, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of State of the Union
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Georgetown University Press Asia-Pacific Security: An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis new textbook gathers an international roster of top security studies scholars to provide an overview of Asia-Pacific's international relations and pressing contemporary security issues. It is a suitable introduction for undergraduate and masters students' use in international relations and security studies courses. Merging a strong theoretical component with rich contemporary and historical empirical examples, Asia-Pacific Security examines the region's key players and challenges as well as a spectrum of proposed solutions for improving regional stability. Major topics include in-depth looks at the United States' relationship with China; Security concerns presented by small and microstates, the region's largest group of nations; threats posed by terrorism and insurgency; the region's accelerating arms race and the potential for an Asian war; the possible roles of multilateralism, security communities, and human security as part of solutions to regional problems.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Asia-Pacific Security Andrew Carr and Joanne WallisPart I: The Changing Asia-Pacific Security Order1. Can The United States Share Power In The Asia-Pacific? Brad Glosserman2 . Is China an Asia-Pacific Great Power?Lowell Dittmer3. Are India and Japan Potential Members of the Great Power Club?H. D. P. Envall and Ian Hall 4. Are Middle Powers on a Collision Course in the Asia-Pacific? Andrew Carr5. Why are Small States a Security Concern in the Asia-Pacific? Joanne Wallis Part II: Current and Emerging Security Challenges6. Military Modernization and Arms-Racing in the Asia-PacificTim Huxley and Brendan Taylor7. Maritime Security: Will Asia's Next War Occur at Sea? James Manicom8. What Threat do Terrorism and Insurgency Pose in the Asia-Pacific? Christopher Paul and Nick Nelson9. How Relevant are Internal and NonTraditional Security Challenges in the Asia Pacific? Alistair D.B. Cook10. How Is the Cyber Revolution Changing Asia-Pacific National Security Concerns? Rex B. Hughes Part III: Security Solutions 11. Can Multilateralism and Security Communities Bring Security to the Asia-Pacific? Mathew Davies12. Is Human Security a Solution? Sarah TeittConclusion: What is the Asia-Pacific's Likely Security Future? Brendan Taylor and William T. Tow GlossaryList of ContributorsIndex
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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc European Union and the Member States
Book SynopsisCan the European Union survive repeated economic crises? If it survives, will it stay as it is or take on a new form? This new edition of The European Union and the Member States, fully revised and updated, addresses these questions as it explores the complex relationship between the EU and each of its now 28 members.The country chapters follow a common format, considering: How and in what areas does EU policy affect, and how is it affected by, the member states? What mechanisms do the member states use to implement EU policy? What is each state’s compliance record? Covering the full range of political, economic, and social issues, the authors offer an insightful discussion of the interplay of EU initiatives with strong, existing national policies and traditions.Trade Review“Invaluable to all specialists, students, and academics working in the field of European studies and international relations." — Wojciech Woźniak, Journal of Contemporary European Studies"This valuable book offers an impressive 'bottom up' view of the new Europe...[It] is a coherent and accessible overview of the striking diversity of the European dimension of political life across the member states." — Munroe Eagles, IEUSS Book Reviews"A rich and timely volume...The extremely readable efforts to make sense of policy conundrums means the book may be used quite profitably in the classroom, and the very fact that all member states are covered testifies to the project’s considerable comparative breadth." — William M. Downs, The Journal of PoliticsTable of Contents Introduction - the Editors. What Is the European Union? - J. McCormick. THE ORIGINAL MEMBER STATES. Germany: Architect of Europe - C. Lankowski. France: Adjustment to the Euro System - C. Deubner. Italy: The Maze of Domestic Concerns - F. Bindi. Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg: Challenging European Integration - K.M. Anderson. THE SECOND WAVE. The United Kingdom: Reacting to Crises - J. Mather. Ireland: Cranky Rebel or Good Soldier? - R.B. Finnegan. Denmark: Its European Dilemma - M. Wind. THE 1980S. Greece: Austerity and EU Influence - N. Zahariadis. Portugal and Spain: The Limits of Convergence - S. Royo. THE 1990S. Austria: Broadly Pro-European - Z. Kudrna. Sweden: A Non-Euro Member Losing Influence - L.J. Eliasson. Finland: An End to Domestic Consensus? - T. Raunio. THE 2004 ROUND. Poland: A Skillful Player - A. Gruszczak. Hungary: Embracing Euro-Skepticism - T. Novak. The Czech Republic: Finding Its Way - E.E. Zeff, E.B. Pirro, and K. Williams. Slovenia and Slovakia: A Tale of Two States - P. Loedel. Cyprus and Malta: The Impact of Europeanization - R. Pace. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia: Successful Adaptation - R. Buhr. THE NEWEST MEMBER STATES. Romania and Bulgaria: From Laggards to Exceptional Cases - N. Cugleşan and M. Herbel. Croatia: Challenges After EU Accession - V. Vukovic and L. Orešković. CONCLUSION. The European Union and the Member States: Concluding Thoughts - the Editors.
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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc US Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of
Book SynopsisThe author draws on both the documentary record and his years of on-the-ground experience to provide a uniquely comprehensive survey and interpretation of nearly eight decades of US policy toward Africa. Tracing how this policy has evolved across successive administrations since 1942 (beginning with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s third term in office), the author illuminates the debates that have taken place at the highest levels of government; shows how policy toward Africa has been affected over the years by US relations with Europe, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and most recently China; and points to the increasing reliance of Western economic interests on Africa’s natural resources. His deeply informed narrative reveals the roles not only of circumstance and ideology, but also of personalities, in the formulation and implementation of US foreign policy.Trade Review“[This] comprehensive political history of US-African relations carefully chronicles American policy on the continent across successive presidencies, from the administration of Franklin Roosevelt to that of Donald Trump.” - Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs In a time when respectful political discussions are increasingly difficult, Cohen’s account gives an honest, if even unflattering, take on history.” - Caleb Slayton, The BridgeTable of ContentsThe United States and Africa: A Historical Perspective. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941-1945. Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961. John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963. Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1969. Richard M. Nixon, 1969-1974. Gerald Ford, 1974-1977. Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981. Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989. George H. W. Bush, 1989-1993. William J. Clinton, 1993-2001. George W. Bush, 2001-2009. Barack H. Obama, 2009-2017. Donald Trump, 2017-2019. Reflections on Successes and Failures.
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PM Press The Art Of Freedom: A Brief History of the
Book SynopsisA demonstration of the explosive movement and its roots in several decades of organised struggle.
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PM Press Future On Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of
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Simon And Schuster Group USA Why the World Doesnt Make Sense
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Counterpoint Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy
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Chump Change The Prince (Chump Change Edition)
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Haymarket Books The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization
Book SynopsisIn The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization, Esmaeil Zeiny brings together a collection of essays that interrogate the colonial legacies, the contemporary power structure, and the geopolitics of knowledge production. The scholars in this collection illustrate how the writing-back paradigm engages in a conversation and paves the way for a “dialogical and pluri-versal” world where the Rest is no longer excluded. Among the important features of this book is that it presents avenues for “decoloniality” and “epistemic disobedience.” This book will be of interest to scholars and students of all Social Science and Humanities disciplines but it is particularly important for those in the disciplines of sociology, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, literature, and theory and philosophy of Social Sciences and Humanities. Contributors include: Dustin J. Byrd, Ciarunji Chesaina, Hiba Ghanem, Mladjo Ivanovic, Masumi Hashimoto Odari, Arjuna Parakrama, JM. Persánch, Andrew Ridgeway, Rudolf J. Siebert, and Esmaeil Zeiny.Table of ContentsForeword: Whose Rest is Best? (Un)Learning Binaries from Subalternity Arjuna Parakrama Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Rest and Decolonial Epistemologies Esmaeil Zeiny Part 1: Positioning New Paradigms1 Must Non-Europeans Think Like Us? A Critique of Modern Thoughtlessness in Western and Resten Societies Dustin J. Byrd 2 End or Continuation of World History: the European, Slavic and American World – A New Paradigm? Rudolf J. Siebert 3 Echoes of the Past: Colonial Legacy and Eurocentric Humanitarianism Mladjo Ivanovic Part 2: Positioning Counter-discourses4 Women Refashion Iran: Decolonizing the Rehistoricized Narratives Esmaeil Zeiny 5 African Literature: Leadership, Plight of the Majority and Hope Masumi Hashimoto Odari and Ciarunji Chesaina 6 Aesthetic Hospitality: Mustafa Saʾeed as Guest in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North Hiba Ghanem 7 The Rest in the White West: After the Empire is Buried, Shadows of Your Black Memory Are Born JM. Persánch 8 The Topography of Nostalgia: Imaginative Geographies and the Rise of Nationalism Andrew Ridgeway Index
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. World Report 2020: Events of 2019
Book SynopsisThe best country-by-country assessment of human rights.
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. Virus
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. Project Censored's State Of The Free Press 2023
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Iter Press The Book of the Body Politic
Book SynopsisThe first political treatise written by a woman. Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the Body Politic is the first political treatise written by a woman. It not only advises the prince, but nobles, knights, and common people as well. It promotes the ideals of interdependence and social responsibility. Rooted in the mindset of medieval Christendom, The Book of the Body Politic heralds the humanism of the Renaissance, highlighting classical culture and Roman civic virtues. This new edition and translation offers a faithful rendering of Christine de Pizan’s writing, as well as a thorough contextualization of her career as a political writer at the end of the Middle Ages in France. The Book of the Body Politic resounds to this day, urging for the need for probity in public life and the importance of responsibilities and rights. Trade Review“Kennedy’s new edition and translation of Christine’s Livre du corps de policie offers a copiously annotated introduction which covers Christine as political writer in this and other treatises; her extraordinary career as a woman writer claiming a voice equal to that of her male contemporaries; and the manuscripts of her Book, its dating, its historico-political context, and its sources. The translation, which highlights, in Kennedy’s words, ‘Christine’s uncompromising, labyrinthine, muscular style,’ closely follows the words and the sentence structure of the original. Together, edition and translation provide readers with an entirely reliable text and a meticulous translation of one of the most important works of lay political thought at the end of the Middle Ages in France.” -- Jane Taylor, Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Christine de Pizan and The Other Voice 1Christine’s Life and Works 7Manuscripts and Date of Composition 15Analysis of the Text 22Historical Context 22The Sources and Their Integration 36Afterlife 45Note on the Translation 52Book of the Body Politic 55Part 1 57Part 2 115Part 3 149Concordance 169Bibliography 173Manuscripts 173Catalogues 173Dictionaries 174Bibliographies 175Texts A: Christine de Pizan 175Texts B: Other Texts 182Critical Studies 185Annotated Index of Proper Names and Titles 197
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iUniverse Papwa: in the Grip of a Champion
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Archway Publishing Psychosocial Political Dysfunction of the
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Lexington Books The Decolonial Politics and Philosophy of Ngugi
Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong'o epistemic journey from a communalist, communist, nationalist, post-colonial theorist, and ultimately an established decolonial spokesperson of the Global South in the league of Paulo Freire, Edward Said, and Frantz Fanon. Through a reading of his novels and essays, The Decolonial Politics and Philosophy of Ngugi wa Thiong'o provides insight into wa Thiong'o's decolonial thought that was established within his overarching philosophy and later became the organizing idea for wa Thiong'o's political activism. Brian Sibanda presents wa Thiong'o as an example of a philosopher within the Global South who has unmasked coloniality, shining light where Eurocentrism has cast darkness. This book offers a fresh perspective for scholars and readers interested in decolonial theory and African philosophy.
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12th Media Services 9/11 and Terrorist Travel: Staff Report of the
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OR Books Everything Must Change!: The World after Covid-19
Book SynopsisEverything Must Change! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In these pages you’ll encounter influential voices across the left, ranging from Roger Waters to Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Žižek to Saskia Sassen. Gael García Bernal, Brian Eno, and Larry Charles examine the pandemic’s more cultural and artistic consequences, touching on topics of love, play, comedy, dreaming, and time. Their words sit alongside analyses of the paradoxes and possibilities of debt, internationalism, and solidarity by Astra Taylor, David Graeber, Vijay Prashad, and Stephanie Kelton. Burgeoning surveillance and control measures in the name of public health are a concern for many of the contributors here, including Shoshana Zuboff and Evgeny Morozov, as are the opportunities presented by the crisis for exploitation by financiers, technocrats, and the far right. Against a return to the normal and, indeed, the notion that there ever was such a thing, these conversations insist that urgent, systemic change is needed to tackle not only the pandemics arising from the human destruction of nature, but also the ceaseless debilitations of contemporary global capitalism. Contributors: Tariq Ali, David Adler, Gael García Bernal, Larry Charles, Noam Chomsky, Brian Eno, Daniel Ellsberg, Kenneth Goldsmith, David Graeber, Johann Hari, Maja Kantar, Stephanie Kelton, Stefania Maurizi, Evgeny Morozov, Maja Pelević, Vijay Prashad , Angela Richter, Saskia Sassen, Saša Savanović, Jeremy Scahill, Richard Sennett, John Shipton, Astra Taylor, Ece Temelkuran, Yanis Varoufakis, Roger Waters, Slavoj Žižek, and Shoshana Zuboff.Trade Review“The left’s big beasts tackle a post-pandemic future” — featured as the Observer Book of the Day “A pick’n’mix of intellectual stimulation, provocation and inquiry.” — recommended by Matthew d’Ancona in Tortoise “An adventurous proposal to seize the Covid-19 crises as, in the words of Saskia Sassen, ‘an invitation to think.'” — reviewed in Modern Times Review “Surveillance capitalism and the role social media plays in disinformation” — contributor Shoshana Zuboff interviewed on Morning Joe “Prominent commentators from around the world weigh progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic” — featured on Climate & Capitalism’s Ecosocialist Bookshelf “An urgent new collection of dialogues” — reviewed by OpEd News
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Naval Institute Press Teddy
Book SynopsisJuly 1918. Preparing to speak to an eager audience, 61-year-old Teddy Roosevelt receives the telegram that all parents of children who serve in war fear most: His son Quentin's plane has been shot down in a dogfight over France. His fate is unknown. Despite rising fear for his youngest son, Teddy takes the stage to speak to his beloved fellow citizens. It is, he says, "my simple duty." But the speech evolves from politics and the war, into an examination of his life, the choices he's made, and the costs of his "Warrior Philosophy."Overflowing with his love of nature, adventure, and justice, Teddy dramatically illustrates the life of one of America's greatest presidents. His many accomplishments ranged from charging up San Juan Hill in Cuba as commander of the Rough Riders, to facing down U.S. corporate monopolies, to launching the Great White Fleet, building the Panama Canal, and the preservation of hundreds of millions of acres of natural American beauty. And finally, to the vigorous life at Sagamore Hill and his immense pride in a beloved and rambunctious family. Teddy reveals how even the greatest of men is still just a man, and how even the most modest man can grow to be great.Trade ReviewCovering both Roosevelt's formative years and his achievements in the White House, and summarizing the politics of his time, Teddy is an excellent graphic biography that serves as a compelling reminder of why Theodore Roosevelt is considered one of the greatest US presidents." —Foreword Reviews
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Penguin Random House Group The Jack Smith Report
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Trafford Publishing Der Texaner Und Das Niederländische Gas:
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Trafford Publishing Der Texaner Und Das Niederländische Gas:
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Robert J Jeffries America's Perigon
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Wisdom/Work The Everyday Patriot: How to Be a Great American
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CCB Publishing Morpheus' Challenge: Beyond the Dreams
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New Internationalist Publications Ltd Dissidents of the International Left
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Verso Books A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political
Book SynopsisAlexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation, whose writing stems from the best tradition of Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken and Tom Paine. Colossal Wreck, his final work, finished shortly before his death in July 2012, exemplifies the prodigious literary brio that made Cockburn's name.Whether ruthlessly exposing Beltway hypocrisy, pricking the pomposity of those in power, or tirelessly defending the rights of the oppressed, Cockburn never pulled his punches and always landed a blow where it mattered. In this panoramic work, covering nearly two decades of American culture and politics, he explores subjects as varied as the sex life of Bill Clinton and the best way to cook wild turkey. He stands up for the rights of prisoners on death row and exposes the chicanery of the media and the duplicity of the political elite. As he pursues a serpentine path through the nation, he charts the fortunes of friends, famous relatives, and sworn enemies alike to hilarious effect.This is a thrilling trip through the reefs and shoals of politics and everyday life. Combining a passion for the places, the food and the people he encountered on dozens of cross-country journeys, Cockburn reports back over seventeen years of tumultuous change among what he affectionately called the "thousand landscapes" of the United States.Trade ReviewA Colossal Wreck provides ample evidence for Cockburn's standing as one of the left's most perceptive and entertaining commentators. * Guardian *Alexander Cockburn set a high standard of crusading journalism for fifty years ... With his Wildean wit, love of elegant women, penchant for hunting and fondness for P.G. Wodehouse, Cockburn defied the stereotype of the disgruntled left-wing scribe. * Independent *Whether journeying to Key West, Fla., Humboldt County, Calif., Ireland or Istanbul, Mr. Cockburn is a warrior/freethinker, armed with courage and gifted prose to cut down the hypocrisies of tyrants. He is a Marxist Mencken-a composite of comic-poet Andrei Condrescu, the erudite Christopher Hitchens and the gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. * New York Times *Probably the most gifted polemicist writing in English today. * Times Literary Supplement *An overflowing goodie basket of wit, expert deprecation, intellectual comradeship ... and incisive ramble. -- James Wolcott * Vanity Fair *Alex struck American journalism like lightning. -- Michael Tomasky * Daily Beast *Always surprising, outrageous, brilliant and yet strangely compassionate. He weaves together the public and the private with a sustained comic ingenuity that is matchless. -- Edward SaidHe had the courage to take on anything and anyone, from the most powerful organisations in the world to his closest friends, and the energy and persistence to follow his own path wherever it took him. * Guardian *Cockburn essentially pioneered the modern persona for which Christopher Hitchens became much better known: the fancily Oxford-educated leftie Brit litte?rateur/journalist who would say all the outrageous things his bland Yank counterparts lacked the wit, courage, erudition, or e?pater-spirit to utter on their own ... Cockburn was far more committed and purposeful in his outrageousness. -- James Fallows * Atlantic *Cockburn's stylish prose is full of erudition, ribald gossip, and pithy insight... [his] gleefully contrarian punditry makes for an entertaining read. * Publishers Weekly *
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Legenda Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture
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Legenda Horizontalism and Historicity in Argentina:
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Legenda Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Commitment in Italy
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Anthem Press Global Green Shift: When Ceres Meets Gaia
Book SynopsisThe world that created modern industry, pioneered in the West, is in decline. It is being transformed by a global green shift, creating new industries based on clean energy, clean water and clean food – all produced in a safe, clean and sustainable way, in abundance, at low (and diminishing) cost and without making further inroads into nature. This twenty-first century world is being driven by newly emerging industrial giants like China and India – just as the twentieth-century infrastructure of oil, automobiles and highways was created by the United States. It is China and India that are feeling the worst effects of industrializing along conventional ‘business as usual’ lines, and which have the greatest incentive to drive their own green shift. But the old world order based on a linear economy and fossil fuels is resisting bitterly, and will not give up without a fight. John A. Mathews explains how these trends and counter-trends are creating a new world order where an industrial system based on the Ceres (Circular Economy and Renewable Energy System) is seeking to take over from the world of fossil fuels, and provide scope for Gaia to become her wild self again. The outcome of this struggle is far from determined. It is the central issue to be resolved in the twenty-first century.Trade Review"The speed and volume of Far-Eastern – especially Chinese – innovation in business and technology have left Western economies reeling. Western scholars of innovation have also been struggling to keep up. An outstanding exception amongst these is the author of this book, John A. Mathews, of Macquarie University in Australia, which has already been recognised, first as the source of two articles in Nature, and more recently by the award of the prize offered by the international Joseph Schumpeter society for the best book on economic innovation." — William Kingston, Prometheus Journal, http://www.prometheusjournal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Kingston-review-of-Mathews-ed-August-2020-final-Google-Docs.pdfTable of ContentsList of Figures; Foreword by Dr Shi Zhengrong; Preface; List of Acronyms; Part I: Dynamics of the Green Transition; 1. Introduction; 2. Evolutionary Dynamics of Our Industrial Civilization; 3. Ecomodernization –with ‘Chinese Characteristics’; 4. Sociotechnical Transitions: A Sixth Wave; 5. No Wonder China and India Are Pursuing Green Growth Strategies So Vigorously; 6. Finance Now Playing a Central Role in the Green Shift; 7. Can the China Model Be Utilized by Other Industrializing Countries?; 8. Green Growth Development Strategies, Local Content Requirements and World Trade; 9. Farewell Fossil Fuels; Part II: Sixth Wave Eco- Innovations; 10. Global Population Peaking […] and Urbanizing; 11. Energy That Is Clean, Cheap, Abundant – and Safe; 12. Reframing Renewables as Enhancing Energy Security; 13. The Myths of ‘Renewistan’; 14. Recirculation and Regeneration of Resources (Circular Economy); 15. Food and Fresh Water Production; 16. Energy, Water, Food for Cities: Deploying a Positive Triple Nexus; 17. Eco- Cities of the Future; 18. When Ceres Meets Gaia; Bibliography; Index.
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Gibson Square Books Ltd New Elites: A Career in the Masses
Book SynopsisFar from becoming classless, Britain's elite is increasingly formed by a select group of professional egalitarians. Rather than aim to raise popular aspirations, they exploit mass taste, mass gullibility, mass spending power for their personal advancement.Trade Review'You have to read it.' Andrew Marr; 'Like a demon tenpin bowler, George Walden has eyed his target.' The Times; 'Brilliant.' Sunday Times; 'Unputdownable.' Gyles Brandreth, Good Book Guide; 'Rousing, funny.' IndependentTable of ContentsBoris Johnson Introduction 1 In Search of the Elites 2 The Misunderstood Masses 3 A Populist Oligarchy 4 The Fine English Art of Condescension 5 A Culture of Pretence 6 Pop Politics 7 Pop Media 8 Unsentimental Education 9 Late Thoughts The Prince of Hearts Index
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Gibson Square Books Ltd Keir Starmer: The Unauthorised Biography
Book SynopsisWho is Keir Starmer? When Keir Starmer won the Labour Party Leadership election in April 2020, the expectation was that he would quickly become a fierce Leader of the Opposition as a former director of public prosecutions, human-rights barrister and genuinely keen football supporter. Instead, his performance was not as surefooted as his supporters had hoped for, or his opponents feared. The 2021 local elections and Hartlepool by-election did not resurrect the Red Wall and only in the Tory-blue South did his party make cosmetic gains. Both in Parliament and in media interviews Starmer struggled to connect with the floating or even the traditional Labour voter. His approach seemed to raise as many questions as Jeremy Corbyn's leftwing leadership. Nigel Cawthorne attended Starmer's grammar school a few years before him (and David Walliams). Sharing the same formative experience, he goes in search of the man behind the lawyer who was covered for almost three decades by a gown and horsehair wig in one of Britain's most cloistered professions.Trade ReviewPrevious praise for Nigel Cawthorne; GUARDIAN; 'Galloping.'; SUNDAY TIMES; 'Excruciating.'; THE TIMES; 'A breath of fresh air.'; INDEPENDENT; 'Goes behind the headlines.'; A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK; 'Raises deep questions.'; DAILY MAIL; '[A] psychological portrait.'; THE JEWISH CHRONICLE; 'A must-read.'; METRO; 'Shocking.'Table of ContentsVanity Projects 1 The Starmers 2 Collapse 3 The Right School for Keir 4 Tanhouse Road 5 Scraping Through 6 Keir's History Boys 7 Reigate's Ballance 8 Rescued by Margaret Thatcher 9 Reigate College 10 Oxbridge and Modest Backgrounds 11 Technicolor Dreamcoat 12 East Surrey Socialism 13 'You want to do law' 14 Oxford Self-Management 15 Pugilism 16 Archway and the Israelites 17 A Band of Revolutionaries 18 Strive Mightily 19 Judge Whisperer 20 Hippies in Hedgerows 21 Acid House and Druids in White Cotton 22 'Rightness' 23 The Road to Northern Ireland 24 'Who the f*** does he think he is?' 25 McFilm Star 26 Starmer QC, Rushing 27 Director of Public Prosecutions 28 Guiding the Rule of Law 29 MP 30 Leader of the Opposition Prime Minister Material? Index
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Verso Books Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
Book SynopsisThe Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event's nineteenth-century origins, through the Games' flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers' Games and Women's Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.Trade ReviewAn Olympic history that simply hasn't been told. -- Olympic medalist John Carlos, author of The John Carlos StoryShould be on every Olympian's bookshelf. -- Laurence Halsted, fencer and "Team GB" Olympian at Rio 2016[Boykoff's] jaunty polemic Power Games is billed as a political history of the Olympics. It is actually more of a call-to-arms to people faced with this giant intrusion. * Financial Times *As much a tool for activists as a work of scholarship, [Power Games] relentlessly attacks the hypocrisy of the Olympic myth. * Washington Post *A great irony is that the modern Olympics, first envisioned as an alternative to war, have themselves become a form of low-intensity warfare. As Jules Boykoff chronicles in this pathbreaking history, host cities have used the Games to leverage urban renewal, neighborhood demolition, and mass population displacement. The preparations for the Rio Olympics have gone one step further and become a literal urban counterinsurgency, as elite police units occupy and 'cleanse' one favela after another. -- Mike Davis, author of Planet of SlumsJules Boykoff takes us deep into the heart to of the Olympic industry to look at the experiences of the people who are affected most by these Games-you and me. This powerful book explores how individuals and groups-from Indigenous people, to athletes to the homeless-have opened our eyes to the possibility of a more humane world through the Olympics. Boykoff also makes it clear that the Olympics have amends to make with Indigenous people worldwide, whether in Canada, the United States, or Australia. Indigenous people have struggled to defend their lands and rights against the Olympic juggernaut, linking their struggles with those of the broader public, showing us how the Games could and should leave better legacies for all, not just the well-to-do. Power Games is an insightful chronicle of Indigenous activism in and against the Games, as well as an intellectual roadmap for how all of our interests are intertwined. In elevating Indigenous voices, Boykoff also exposes the problematic representations of Indigenous people that are frequently proffered by Olympic-controlled media. Power Games is an important and approachable work that should be on every bookshelf, a must read for anyone interested in the future of the Games. -- Janice Forsyth, former Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at Western University in Ontario, member of the Fisher River Cree First NationEven since Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the International Olympic Committee has sought to deny the inherently political nature of the modern Olympic games. In Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics, Jules Boykoff, arguably the world's leading authority on the Olympic movement, exposes the IOC's claims of apoliticism as a sham. Through a carefully researched history of the Olympic Games, Boykoff skillfully details how the Olympics benefit political elites and corporate interests at the expense of local host cities and even democracy itself. But this is no pessimistic account. Boykoff ends by outlining how a more democratic and transparent Olympics is still possible, making Power Games essential reading for anyone wanting to understanding the power and importance of the modern Olympics. -- Ben Carrington, University of Texas at Austin, author of Race, Sport and PoliticsEnjoyable and informative, Power Games is an even more relevant read in the build-up to this summer's . Olympics. -- Jamie Johnson * Morning Star *An important read for those who will be watching this summer's contests in Rio. Even more importantly, though, it is a necessary text for those who live in cities the International Olympic Committee is eyeing for its next overpriced neoliberal capitalist extravaganza. The people of Boston sent the IOC packing in 2015 for many of the reasons elucidated in this history. Other cities would do well to do the same. This book explains why. -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *This explosive book leaves us asking whether the IOC's insistence that sport is above such concerns as justice, liberty and human rights has not in fact been a fundamentally corrosive stance from the start. * Sunday Herald *[Power Games is] really two books in one: a historical overview of the Games' checkered history and a searing indictment of the IOC's hypocrisy and hubris...unrelentingly critical [and also] constructive. -- Houman Barekat * Jacobin *A truly inside-track critique of the fanfare, Boykoff addresses the games as a site of scandal and rebellion. -- Bailey Flynn * MobyLives! *A timely and depressing reminder of the grisly underbelly of the Olympic Games. -- Diarmaid Ferriter * Irish Times *By examining Olympic history from the revival of the Games in 1896 to the imminent Rio Olympics, Boykoff traces how the Olympics have developed into the behemoth that has transformed Rio over the past seven years. Beyond this, he also provides fantastic detail on many of the egregious abuses in the name of Rio 2016. -- Adam Talbot * RioOnWatch *To anyone who believes that the excesses of the Games over the past 50 years or so have betrayed a purer original legacy, [Power Games] by Jules Boykoff provides a bracing corrective. * Spectator *Jules Boykoff debunks any remaining myths associated with the 'spirit' and 'goodwill' of the Olympic 'movement' by attending closely to the machinations of this monopolistic, non-sovereign, and largely unaccountable organization and its beneficiaries. * Public Books *As sporting mega-events become the focus of a growing number of activists, Power Games provides the basis for those campaigns to be better informed and more effective. -- Malcolm Maclean * Red Pepper *Jules Boykoff's Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics is a smart, sharp, and critically balanced outline of the modern Olympic revival. -- Robert L. Kehoe III * Boston Review *Exhuastively researched and clearly written. -- Jon Day * Times Literary Supplement *
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Manchester University Press Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the Uk: Forced Displacement and Onward Migration
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Merrion Press Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace
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ECPR Press From Participation to Deliberation: A Critical
Book SynopsisIn 2006, Barack Obama wrote that the ''framework of our constitution'' is designed ''to force us into a "deliberative democracy" in which all citizens are required to engage in a process of testing their ideas against an external reality, persuading others of their point of view''. His statement is just one of the many examples of the contemporary relevance of deliberative democracy. But where does this model come from? When was it born and how did it develop? Starting from the 1980s, this book provides the first, complete history of the idea of deliberative democracy, analysing its relationship with the earlier idea, and practices, of participatory democracy in the 1960s and 1970s. The author provides a lucid and detailed analysis of the texts and authors that have contributed to this theoretical field and, in the final chapter, proposes a possible guiding map of today''s complex deliberative field, in its present configuration.
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Biteback Publishing The New Serfdom
Book SynopsisGreat Britain is one of the wealthiest, most successful nations in the world. Why, then, do so many people feel short-changed? The old assumption that `if you work hard and play by the rules, you can get on in life’ looks increasingly like a cruel joke. Homeownership, secure employment and fair wages seem like relics of a bygone era. Meanwhile exploitative workplace practices have created a new serfdom, leaving many people trapped in unfulfilling, underpaid work. At a time of huge political upheaval and ever-increasing inequality, this powerful new book asks: how can we build a successful economy, powered by a happy and productive workforce that benefits everyone in the twenty-first century?
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Biteback Publishing My Hair is Pink Under This Veil
Book Synopsis“In 1977, one of the girls at my infant school in Kent asked me if I was a golliwog. I said I wasn’t sure. In 2015, when I ran to be mayor in Tower Hamlets, a smartly dressed middle-class man saw me wearing a headscarf and asked me what colour my hair was underneath it. I gave him a big smile. ‘Pink,’ I replied. Did I win his vote? I rather doubt it.” Engaging and sharply observed, My Hair Is Pink Under This Veil gives a candid insight into the life of a hijab-wearing Muslim woman in modern Britain. Writing with grace and humour about her family’s experiences building a new life in Britain in the 1970s, Rabina Khan then turns her gaze outwards to explore the politics of the veil, white privilege and intersectional feminism, before charting her battle to build a successful political career against a backdrop of blame, bias and misogyny – including from her own community. Clear-sighted and often deeply affecting about the struggles facing Muslim women, My Hair Is Pink Under This Veil is at its heart an inspiring story about the power of self-belief and determination to create a fairer world.Trade Review"A funny, engaging and moving memoir. Rabina captures nuances and shatters stereotypes." - Fatima Manji, Channel 4 News "Rabina is an inspiring and powerful role model who has smashed glass ceilings with her strength, grace and tenacity. This book gives an important insight into the experiences of British Muslim women, whose voices are too often marginalised. Rabina's charming childhood experiences of home-made nativity costumes, bad perms and dressing-up parties are gently interwoven with the painful realities of everyday racism in 1980s Britain, all told with matter-of-fact reflection and optimism for the future." - Jo Swinson, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
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Biteback Publishing What A Bloody Awful Country: Northern Ireland's
Book Synopsis'For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!' HOME SECRETARY REGINALD MAUDLING, RETURNING FROM HIS FIRST VISIT TO NORTHERN IRELAND IN 1970 In the early years of the twentieth century, simmering discontent began to boil over on the island of Ireland as the nascent IRA took its guerrilla campaign against British rule to the streets. By 1921, Britain had beaten a retreat from all but a small portion of the country - and thus Northern Ireland was born. Kevin Meagher argues that partition has been an unmitigated disaster for Nationalists and Unionists alike. As the long and fraught history of British rule in Ireland staggered to a close, a better future was there for the taking but was lost amid political paralysis, while the resulting fifty years of devolution succeeded only in creating a brooding sectarian stalemate that exploded into the Troubles. In a stark but reasoned critique, Meagher traces the landmark events in Northern Ireland's century of existence, exploring the missed signals, the turning points, the principled decisions that at various stages should have been taken, as well as the raw realpolitik of how Northern Ireland has been governed over the past 100 years. Thoughtful and sometimes provocative, What a Bloody Awful Country reflects on how both Loyalists and Republicans might have played their cards differently and, ultimately, how the actions of successive British governments have amounted to a masterclass in failed statecraft.Trade Review"A gripping appraisal of Northern Ireland's turbulent first century. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we have got to where we are today." - Suzanne Breen, Belfast Telegraph
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Biteback Publishing The Best of Enemies: Diaries 1980-1997: At the
Book SynopsisThe Best of Enemies is the political diaries of one of the most significant politicians of the late twentieth century. Covering the Thatcher/Major period - during which time Norman Fowler held prominent positions in the Cabinet and as party chairman - Fowler's diaries observe both Prime Ministers, and their Cabinet colleagues, at close quarters. Fowler brings his training as a journalist to bear on these diaries, which are full of insights and anecdotes and resonate powerfully with the situation the Conservative Party faces today, with industrial strife, waning authority and a Labour Party looking like a government in waiting. The entries raise other issues that are still unresolved. They range from the effect that the private sexual conduct of a minister should have on a career to whether an entirely 'hands-off' approach to industrial strategy is in the national interest. Norman Fowler's diaries provide a ringside seat to the struggles of their time. These are not the diaries of an ex-minister seeking to justify their own record; rather, they are the story of how two Prime Ministers rose and fell and caused their party to split apart, told by someone who was there at the time.
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World Scientific Europe Ltd China's 19th Party Congress: Start Of A New Era
Book SynopsisThis book gives an overview of key themes domestically and internationally from the 19th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing in October 2017, setting out the main policy priorities for the Xi government in China as the country moves towards fulfillment of the first Centenary Goal, the hundredth anniversary of the Communist Party of China in 2021.Written as the first full length analysis by an international group of authors of different aspects of the Congress, making it perfect for graduate students and researchers, as well as individuals interested in China Studies.
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Verso Books The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThe analysis of May 68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images of Paris, Frankfurt, or Milan. It is also the pivotal year for a new anti-colonial and anti-capitalist politics to erupt across the Third World - Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Japan's position - neither in "the West" nor in the "Third World" -provoked a complex and intense round of mass mobilizations through the 1960s and early 70s. The Japanese situation remains remarkably under-examined globally. Beginning in the late 1950s, a New Left, independent of the prewar Japanese communist moment (itself of major historical importance in the 1920s and 30s), came to produce one of the most vibrant decades of political organization, political thought, and political aesthetics in the global twentieth century. In the present volume, major thinkers of the Left in Japan alongside scholars of the 1968 movements reexamine the theoretical sources, historical background, cultural productions, and major organizational problems of the 1968 revolutions in Japan.Trade ReviewPraise for The Sublime Perversion of Capital:"What is capital? What is its relation with the 'world' and with the nation? What is its origin, its limit, and its 'other'? Reading the 'debate on Japanese capitalism' in the 1920s and 1930s against the grain of contemporary concerns, Gavin Walker invites us to a breathtaking intellectual journey. He provides a masterful interpretation of a crucial historical debate and makes a landmark contribution to our understanding of global capitalism and to the forging of a new project of liberation." -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of, Border as Method, or, The Multiplication of LaborPraise for The Sublime Perversion of Capital: "Gavin Walker's superb The Sublime Perversion of Capital is a brilliantly imaginative recovery of Marx's worldly vocation and the original premises of historical materialism dedicated to combining the immediacy of local contemporary circumstances with the global reach of capital. He realizes this singularly vital program by reflecting on the writings of the economist Uno Kozo, especially his thinking on logic and history, as they intervened and culminated in the famous Marxian debate on capitalism in Japan's 1920s and 1930s in a context sparked by a rapidly uneven passage into capitalist modernity and its spillover into imperialism." -- Harry Harootunian, author of, Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Turkey's New State in the Making: Transformations
Book SynopsisSince the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP’s temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violation of the constitution and fundamental human rights, and the one-man-rule of President Erdogan have become the identifying characteristics of Turkish politics. The failed coup attempt on 15th July 2016 further impaired the situation as the government declared emergency rule at the end of which a political regime defined as the “Presidential Government System” was established in July 2018. Turkey’s New State in the Making examines the historical specificities of the ongoing AKP-led radical state transformation in Turkey within a global, legal, financial, ideological, and coercive neoliberal context. Arguing that rather than being an exception, the new Turkish state has the potential to be a model for political transformations elsewhere, problematizing how specific policies the AKP adapted to refract social dispositions have been radically redefining the republican, democratic and secular features of the modern Turkish state.Trade Review'This is an excellent book of critical and courageous argument and examination. It is indispensable for anybody who wants to know what is going on in the Turkish Republic under the Erdogan governments. * Werner Bonefeld, The University of York *This book includes the best scholarly work currently available on the political economy of Turkey. The chapters in this volume address neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and the strengths and fragilities of the rule of the AKP in great detail, consistency, and reaching strikingly innovative and important conclusions. This work is indispensable for anyone working on contemporary Turkey. * Alfredo Saad Filho, King’s College London *Turkish political economy has a new milestone. Empirically- and theoretically-rich, this book relentlessly traverses the neoliberal and financial transformation of Turkey under the AKP, posing an uncompromising challenge to the course of Turkish democracy and development. Read it. I say again: Read it! * Thomas Marois, School of Oriental and African Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Global political context of state transformation 1. Social constitution of the AKP’s strong state through financialization: State in crisis, or crisis state? 2. Deconstitutionalization and the state crisis in Turkey: What role for the Turkish Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights? 3. Turkey’s double movement: Islamists, neoliberalism, and foreign policy 4. The shift of axis or business as usual? Turkey’s S-400 procurement decision and defense industry Part II: Politics of economic management 5. Understanding the recent rise of authoritarianism in Turkey in terms of the structural contradictions of capital accumulation process 6. Turkey’s financial slide: Discipline by credit in the last decade of the AKP rule 7. AKP’s move from depoliticization to repoliticization in economic management 8. AKP’s income-differentiated housing strategies under the pressure of resistance and debt Part III: Politics of domination 9. The transformation of the state-religion relationship under the AKP: The case of the Diyanet 10. From military tutelage to nowhere: On the limitations of civil-military dualism in making sense of the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey in the 2010s 11. Courtrooms as solidarity spaces and trials as sentences: Defending your rights and asking for accountability in Turkey 12. SETA: From AKP’s organic intellectuals to AK-paratchiks Part IV: Politics of coercion 13. Domesticating politics, de-gendering women: State violence against politically active women in Turkey 14. War on drugs: A view from Turkey 15. “The law of the city?”: Social war, urban warfare, and dispossession on the margin
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark
Book SynopsisWhen mass protests erupted in Algeria in 2019, on a scale unseen anywhere in the region since the Arab Spring, the outside world was taken by surprise. Algeria had been largely unaffected by the turmoil that engulfed its neighbours in 2011, and it was widely assumed that the population was too traumatised and cowed by the country's bloody civil war to take to the streets demanding change. Michael J. Willis offers an explanation of this unexpected development known as the Hirak Movement, examining the political and social changes that have occurred in Algeria since the 'dark decade' of the 1990s. He examines how the bitter civil conflict was brought to an end, and how a fresh political order was established following the 1999 election of a dynamic new leader, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Initially underwritten by revenue from Algeria's substantial hydrocarbons resources, this new order came to be undermined by falling oil prices, an ailing president, and a population determined to have its voice heard by an increasingly corrupt, out-of-touch and opaque national leadership. Exactly twenty years passed before Bouteflika's presidency was brought to an end by the Hirak protests--this book is an authoritative account of them.Trade Review‘Contributes a great deal to our understanding of this under-researched country.’ -- Middle East Journal'Willis draws on his deep knowledge of Algeria and the entire Maghreb to provide a comprehensive view of the Game of Thrones played by Algerian elites since independence. It prevented popular participation except for periodic outbursts, and entrenched an authoritarian and deeply corrupt system.' -- Marina Ottaway, former Senior Research Associate and Head of the Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace'An authoritative, masterful and wide-ranging story of Algeria in the twenty-first century, grounded in the continuities of, and evolutions from, the past. This substantial and hugely significant book brings the political historiography of post-Independence Algeria bang up to date. It will surely become a classic.' -- Emma Murphy, Professor of Political Economy and member of the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University'Much more than a history of Algeria, this brilliant book highlights the country's new challenges: national and regional demands for a new political regime. A remarkable analysis of the political, economic and social issues of post-Bouteflika Algeria that offers the keys to understanding the current situation.' -- Luis Martinez, Senior Research Fellow, CERI Sciences Po, and co-editor of Algeria Modern'Willis unearths the dominant historical, political, social and economic determinants that have shaped Algeria's contemporary politics. An informative and inspiring book that all Algeria specialists and researchers must have on their bookshelves, and that will certainly incite further study of and debate about a complex polity.' -- Yahia H. Zoubir, editor of The Politics of Algeria: Domestic Issues and International Relations
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