Social theory Books

Book SynopsisMichel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.Trade Review"No thinker of the last generation helped shape understandings of the world more powerfully than Foucault. This splendid and up-to-date anthology shows that his work, through its various phases, retains its analytic power today."—Simon During, University of Queensland "Now is an appropriate time to reassess Foucault's work, to reflect upon its significance, relevance, and impact. These wide-ranging and challenging essays by leading figures in the field demonstrate the extraordinary breadth and depth of Foucault's contribution to the social sciences and humanities."—Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth "Foucault Now shows that 'Foucault then' is as relevant today as ever he was. The essays collected here traverse the full range of Foucault's work. In situating his concerns and methods within the politics of his times, they also connect them to the politics of the present with a compelling urgency. Foucault's originality still astonishes, and he remains simply indispensable."—Tony Bennett, University of Western SydneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Contributors viii Abbreviations xiii Introduction: The Use of Foucault 1 James D. Faubion Part I: Object Lessons 1 The Undefined Work of Freedom: Foucault’s Genealogy and the Anthropology of Ethics 23 James Laidlaw 2 Déraison 38 Ian Hacking 3 Foucault’s Evil Genius 52 Lynne Huffer 4 Toward an Ethics of Subjectivation: French Resistances to Psychoanalysis in the 1970s 71 Didier Eribon 5 Michel Foucault’s Critical Empiricism Today: Concepts and Analytics in the Critique of Biopower and Infopower 88 Colin Koopman 6 Foucault’s Face: The Personal is the Theoretical 112 John Forrester Part II: Cases in Point 7 Biopower, Sexual Democracy, and the Racialization of Sex 131 Eric Fassin 8 “A New Schema of Politicization”: Thinking Humans, Animals, and Biopolitics with Foucault 152 Cary Wolfe 9 Parrhesia and Therapeusis: Foucault on and in the World of Contemporary Neoliberalism 168 Laurence McFalls and Mariella Pandolfi 10 Foucault, Marx, Neoliberalism: Unveiling Undercover Boss 188 Toby Miller 11 Assembling Untimeliness: Permanently and Restively 203 Paul Rabinow 12 Constantine Cavafy: A Parrhesiast for the Cynic of the Future 225 James D. Faubion References 243 Index 264

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Book SynopsisMichel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.Trade Review"No thinker of the last generation helped shape understandings of the world more powerfully than Foucault. This splendid and up-to-date anthology shows that his work, through its various phases, retains its analytic power today."—Simon During, University of Queensland "Now is an appropriate time to reassess Foucault's work, to reflect upon its significance, relevance, and impact. These wide-ranging and challenging essays by leading figures in the field demonstrate the extraordinary breadth and depth of Foucault's contribution to the social sciences and humanities."—Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth "Foucault Now shows that 'Foucault then' is as relevant today as ever he was. The essays collected here traverse the full range of Foucault's work. In situating his concerns and methods within the politics of his times, they also connect them to the politics of the present with a compelling urgency. Foucault's originality still astonishes, and he remains simply indispensable."—Tony Bennett, University of Western SydneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Contributors viii Abbreviations xiii Introduction: The Use of Foucault 1 James D. Faubion Part I: Object Lessons 1 The Undefined Work of Freedom: Foucault’s Genealogy and the Anthropology of Ethics 23 James Laidlaw 2 Déraison 38 Ian Hacking 3 Foucault’s Evil Genius 52 Lynne Huffer 4 Toward an Ethics of Subjectivation: French Resistances to Psychoanalysis in the 1970s 71 Didier Eribon 5 Michel Foucault’s Critical Empiricism Today: Concepts and Analytics in the Critique of Biopower and Infopower 88 Colin Koopman 6 Foucault’s Face: The Personal is the Theoretical 112 John Forrester Part II: Cases in Point 7 Biopower, Sexual Democracy, and the Racialization of Sex 131 Eric Fassin 8 “A New Schema of Politicization”: Thinking Humans, Animals, and Biopolitics with Foucault 152 Cary Wolfe 9 Parrhesia and Therapeusis: Foucault on and in the World of Contemporary Neoliberalism 168 Laurence McFalls and Mariella Pandolfi 10 Foucault, Marx, Neoliberalism: Unveiling Undercover Boss 188 Toby Miller 11 Assembling Untimeliness: Permanently and Restively 203 Paul Rabinow 12 Constantine Cavafy: A Parrhesiast for the Cynic of the Future 225 James D. Faubion References 243 Index 264

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Book SynopsisIn this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in response to a form of anxiety or stress.Trade Review"In this essay on the meaning of freedom today Peter Sloterdijk offers a stunning account of our post-modern predicaments. He writes as ever with polemical verve and great wit, tracing an aberrant freedom from the dissidence of Rousseau�s figure of the solitary walker to the existential principles of Beckett�s neglected first play Eleutheria. The result is an impassioned tour de force in defence of freedom and a call for a renewed ethic of liberality and generosity. This is a must read." Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of WarwickTable of Contents Large-Scale Political Bodies as Stress Communes Lucretia�s Revolt, Rousseau�s Retreat Stress and Freedom The Reaction of the Real On the Source of Committed Freedom

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Book SynopsisIn SOCIAL, ETHICAL, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF ENGINEERING,engineers, faculty, and students will find an informative guide tothe professional, societal, and ethical responsibilities that facepracticing engineers today. Through an integrated approach to thetheory of engineering ethics and practical real-world issues, thiscomprehensive book offers readers an in-depth analysis oftechnology''s current social role. Drawing on readings and case studies first published in IEEETechnology and Society Magazine, this easy-to-read text willdevelop readers'' understanding of the important issues surroundingmacroethical public policy debates, including discussions ofsustainable development, public health, risk and product liability,and telecommunications. These cases and readings also provide anopportunity to apply the theory in real-world situations. SOCIAL, ETHICAL, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF ENGINEERING will helpstudents meet the new accreditation criteria for engineeringadoptedTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND SOCIETY. Technology, Values, and Society. The Social Context of Engineering. SOCIAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF ENGINEERS. Moral Dilemmas in Engineering. Frameworks for Engineering Ethics. ENGINEERING ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY. Technology Policy and Ethical Issues. Risk and Product Liability. Engineering and Sustainable Development. Engineering in a Global Context. Technology and Health Care. Information Technology. Appendix. Author Index. Subject Index. About the Editor.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What is the nature of the modern state, what were its origins, and what seem to be the present trends? In answering these questions ... Poggi succeeds in presenting a well-informed but elegantly parsimonious statement... In its historical depth and concise exposition, it should make very worthwhile reading for graduate students and many of their teachers... An excellent historical introduction for political sociologies." -Guenther Roth ,Contemporary Sociology "A brief but careful introduction to the major forms of the political realm since the Carolingian period in Western Europe... The author treats several prominent forms of political rule: feudal rule, rule by the Standestaat, rule by the absolutist regimes, rule by the nineteenth-century constitutional state, and the rule of present-day liberal regimes. He tells history well, with an admirably lucid and concise prose; and it is a story that is occasionally as penetrating as it is consistently informative." -Anthony M. Orum ,Social Forces "Poggi's expressed intent, namely to render intelligible centuries of political development via the presentation of a succession of highly abstract models ... is achieved with clarity and distinction and in the process opens vistas for further exploration... The book provides a useful base from which to launch a course on the modern state." Social Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents I. II. III. IV. V. VI.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of eight essays by some of today's most innovative and seminal thinkers argues that there is a limit beyond which the enterprise of literary theory becomes something different from what it presents itself as being.Trade Review"In response to the noisy world of contemporary theory, Kavanagh has assembled a provocative collection of essays by critics and philosophers who share the conviction that there is a limit beyond which the drive to theorize transforms theory into something different from what it presents itself as being. . . . Limits attempts with considerable success to strike a delicate balance between critiquing theoretical excess and defending theory's usefulness."—Scott Sprenger, Modern Language Notes

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon the insights of several disciplines, this work focuses on the structural and experiential dynamics of interpersonal and collective apologetic discourse as means of tempering antagonisms and resolving conflicts in contemporary Western society.Trade Review"A book of elegance and grace in the grand sociological tradition, this work could become a classic. Tavuchis forces readers to recognize that all human contact is ultimately dyadic. . . . Apology in Japan is compared to its expression in the West, as is, to a lesser extent, secular apology and religious confession. The normative community, sacred or secular, required definitions of exactly what is forgivable and what is not; Tavuchis uses the perspective of Georg Simmel to examine this construct."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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Book SynopsisJacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Werner Hamacher, Samuel Weber, and others rethink the concept of violence, both in itself and in relation to the formation and transformation of identities-individual, collective, political, cultural, religious, and secular.Table of ContentsIntroduction Hent de Vries and Samual Weber 1. Violence and testimony: on sacrificing sacrifice Hent de Vries 2. Monastic violence M. B. Pranger 3. Characteristic violence, or, the physiognomy of style Marian Hobson 4. Wartime Samuel Weber 5. The camp as the Nomos of the modern Giorgio Agamben 6. Enlightenment and Paranomia Stathis Gourgouris 7. Cannibals all: the grave wit of Kant's perpetual peace Susan M. Shell 8. Otherwise than self-determination: the mortal freedom of Oedipus Asphaleos Michael Dillon 9. The victim's tale: memory and forgetting in the story of violence Peter van der Veer 10. Eroticism, colonialism, and violence Ali Behdad 11. Traumatic awakenings Cathy Caruth 12. Habeas corpus: the law's desire to have the body Anselm Haverkamp and Cornelia Vismann 13. On the politics of pure means: Benjamin, Arendt, Foucault Beatrice Hanssen 14. Marx, mourning, messianicity Peter Fenves 15. Violence, identity, self-determination, and the question of justice: on Specters of Marx Peggy Kamuf 16. One to many multiculturalisms Werner Hamacher 17. ... and pomegranates Jacques Derrida Notes.

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Book SynopsisEssays by Germany's most prominent and influential social thinker link his social theory to the question "What is modern about modernity?" and shows the origins and context of his theory.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Modernity in contemporary society 2. European rationality 3. Contingency as modern society's defining attribute 4. Describing the future 5. The ecology of ignorance Notes.

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Book SynopsisThis leading sociologist brings his distinctive method of social criticism to bear on some of the most significant ideas, political and social events, and thinkers of the late twentieth century.Trade Review"For almost fifty years, Wrong may well have been the single most consistent voice for good sense and moderation in both the fevered circles of the New York intelligentsia and the discipline of sociology. He brings to his analyses a unique combination of historical perspective and a temperamental inclination to cut through the hype. As a result, whether he is reconsidering past events or arguments (McCarthyism, Hannah Arendt's characterization of totalitarianism, David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd) or assessing current events and fads (rational choice theory, postmodernism, Allan Bloom's lament about the state of the 'American Mind'), Wrong invariably ends up providing a new, balanced perspective where none existed before." -Axel van den Berg,McGill UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. Concepts and Realities: 1. Disaggregating the idea of capitalism; 2. Is rational choice humanity's most distinctive trait?; 3. Hannah Adrendt on totalitarianism; 4. The concept of power: boundless or delimited?; 5. Myths of alienation; 6. The politics of left and right; 7. Cultural relativism as ideology; Part II. Intellectuals and Middle Classes: 8. The new class: does it exist? 9. Knowledge and power: intellectuals, Universities, and the class structure; 10. The influence of sociological ideas on American culture; 11. Professional jargon: is sociology the culprit? 12. The New York intellectuals and McCarthyism; 13. David Riesman: The Lonely Crowd revisited; 14. Daniel Bell: a specialist in generalizations; 15. Christopher Lasch: is progress a delusion? 16. Allan Bloom: the paperbacking of the American mind; Autobiographical coda; 17. 'As we grow older the world becomes stranger'; Notes; Bibliography; Sources.

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Book SynopsisSociology has long sought to find out how acting in a situation and observing that situation may differ and nevertheless belong to a single kind of social operation. Spencer-Brown's Law of Form provides one way to conceive of such an operation, and this book is the first to make sociological use of this mathematical calculus of form.Table of ContentsCONTENTS BAECKER DIRK LUHMANN NIKLAS ROBERTS DAVID LUHMANN NIKLAS SCHORR KARL EBERHARD ESPOSITO ELENA BAECKER DIRK HUTTER MICHAEL STICHWEH RUDOLF WILLKE HELMUT JAPP KLAUS P. CORSI GIANCARLO SIMON FRITZ B.

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Book SynopsisExplores the accomplishments of the golden age of "macrohistory," the sociologically informed analysis of long-term patterns of political, economic, and social change. The topics range from the Marxian-inspired theory of revolutions to the roots of the Holocaust.Trade Review"Given that a short review cannot do justice to the complexity and richness of this compelling book, it must suffice to say that its most innovative and exciting aspect is Collins' discussion of the still under-theorized dimension of democratic modernity. This is especially the case when his discussion is combined with his reflections on ethnic change." -- Journal of the History of Behavioral SciencesTable of ContentsList of figures; Introduction: the golden age of macrohistorical sociology; 1. Maturation of the state-centered theory of revolution and ideology; 2. The geopolitical basis of revolution: the prediction of the Soviet collapse; 3. 'Balkanization' or 'Americanization': a geopolitical theory of ethnic change; 4. Democratization from the outside in: a geopolitical theory of collegial power; 5. German-bashing and the theory of democratic modernization; 6. Market dynamics as the engine of historical change; 7. An Asian route to capitalism; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how Arab workers (mainly women) and Jewish managers in the Israeli textile industry negotiate the terms and meanings of factory work. It examines the tension between traditional familial and social roles and the demands of industrial life, as well as the complications created by Arab-Jewish political and military conflict.Trade Review"Drori's book is a useful addition to the literature of a largely neglected, but important subject." -- Journal of Palestine Studies"The book beautifully documents the interplay between the culture of the local Arab communities and the culture of the plants that employ women from those communities. . . . Drori does a masterful job of showing how the local Arab culture enters into the workplace to shape the nature of social relations, norms, expectations, and values. . . . The Seam Line is a wonderful ethnography situated in a rich setting." -- Administrative Science Quarterly"A significant contribution to the literature in organizational ethnography." -- Work and OccupationsTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methods: reflections on the field 3. On factory daughters and the culture of the workplace 4. The sewing plants: scenes from the social arena 5. The seamstresses: in motion toward reconstructing work and life 6. The supervisors: go betweens 7. The managers: embodying a double system 8. Out with the old and in with the Hi-Tex 9. Conclusion Notes References Index.

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Book SynopsisThis first volume of Niklas Luhmann''s two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative media, including language, writing, the printing press, and electronic media as well as success media, such as money, power, truth, and love, all of which structure this fluidity and make communication possible. An investigation into the ways in which social systems produce and reproduce themselves, the book asks what gives rise to functionally differentiated social systems, how they evolve, and how social movements, organizations, and patterns of interaction emerge. The advent of the computer and its networks, which trigger potentially Trade Review"Luhmann's understanding of society offers critical theology an insightful account of how original sin manifests itself in North Atlantic societies today . . . [I]t is insightful regarding how the particular logics of social systems constrain the views and actions of people involved in them. . . [B]y attending to how social systems function and have become globalized, Luhmann's thoery helps uncover possibilities for collective solidarity."—Don Schweitzer, The Ecumenist"This work builds on and refines [Luhmann's earlier studies], constructing a relativistic theory that challenges classical sociological theories of action, meaning, and the subject." — C. T. Loader, CHOICE"One of the masterpieces of social theory written after World War II."—Axel Honneth, Columbia University"Niklas Luhmann's membership in the canon of genuinely original and comprehensive social theorists is radiantly evident. Together with that of Simmel, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, and Parsons, his work stands as one of the monumental achievements of twentieth-century sociology. With the English publication of Theory of Society, Luhmann's magnum opus is finally available to a global readership. Students who master its supple conceptuality will find it indispensable in understanding the complexity and dynamism of the contemporary world."—David Wellbery, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a complex theory of modern society that simultaneously considers issues of communication, the media, differentiation, and evolution.Trade Review"Luhmann's understanding of society offers critical theology an insightful account of how original sin manifests itself in North Atlantic societies today . . . [I]t is insightful regarding how the particular logics of social systems constrain the views and actions of people involved in them. . . [B]y attending to how social systems function and have become globalized, Luhmann's thoery helps uncover possibilities for collective solidarity."—Don Schweitzer, The Ecumenist"This work builds on and refines [Luhmann's earlier studies], constructing a relativistic theory that challenges classical sociological theories of action, meaning, and the subject." — C. T. Loader, CHOICE"One of the masterpieces of social theory written after World War II."—Axel Honneth, Columbia University"Niklas Luhmann's membership in the canon of genuinely original and comprehensive social theorists is radiantly evident. Together with that of Simmel, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, and Parsons, his work stands as one of the monumental achievements of twentieth-century sociology. With the English publication of Theory of Society, Luhmann's magnum opus is finally available to a global readership. Students who master its supple conceptuality will find it indispensable in understanding the complexity and dynamism of the contemporary world."—David Wellbery, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisThis newly expanded and reorganized collection of readings provides a compelling exploration of what arguably remains the single most important problem in social theory: the problem of social order.Trade Review"...I could not wait to turn the page. The key to its readability is not only the short and well-drawn excerpts, but also the enlightening way they are knitted together by the editors, Michael Hechter and Christine Horne.... This book will surely inspire many social scientists to give more attention to theory and integrate it more effectively in empirical research. It also brings out the editors' argument that the best explanations of social phenomena point out both causal factors and the mechanism by which they work."—Helge Holtermann, Journal of Peace Research"The second edition of this remarkable innovative text is closely aligned to what many of us believe is the most important development in 21st century social science, namely, a growing consensus that effective theories are those that specify mechanisms to account for phenomena to be explained." —Thomas J. Fararo, University of Pittsburgh"Theories of Social Order is already an essential addition to any undergraduate theory course because of the unique way in which it challenges students to address the landscape of ideas, focusing on areas of agreement and disagreement between different major theorists. The new addition adds to this by clearly showing how the work of a diverse set of important contemporary theorists of social order developed from earlier debates." —Sun-Ki Chai, University of Hawaii"Too often, social theory can seem abstract, dissociated from the intrigues of the social world. In Theories of Social Order, Hechter and Horne smartly reverse this tendency in two ways. First, the readings they include focus on a central and long-standing theoretical puzzle—social order—across a range of topics, from individuals to hierarchies to networks. Second, they insist that the best theories traffic in explanations of real-world phenomena. The result is a fascinating compilation that will enrich the sociological imaginations of both students and the scholars who teach them." —John R. Hall, University of California, Davis"I have used Michael Hechter and Christine Horne's book Theories of Social Order: A Reader in my courses of Social Theory at DePaul University for several years. I have obtained much better results with my students than I did with previous textbooks I used. The reason is that Hechter and Horne have a very original focus on theories rather than on theorists, which makes it easier for students to understand the arguments and compare different theories. In addition, the authors chose to analyze the very important problem of social order from diverse theoretical perspectives, which allows the application of the theories discussed in their book to current problems related with social order, such as rebellions, wars, economic recessions, social deviance, etc. I look forward to using the second edition of this book in my classes, which has been improved significantly with the re-arrangement of topics and theories as well as the addition of new materials and theories relevant to contemporary problems of social order. I am sure the second edition will be as successful and welcomed as the first one has been."—Jose Soltero, DePaul University"Hechter and Horne succeed in presenting the complexity of theoretical thinking without the somnolent verbiage so typical of some of the classical theorists. They present direct connections between theoretical concepts and empirical research. But the most attractive aspect of the book is that it avoids the typical conventions used to teach theory: somewhat arbitrary categorizations by paradigm, chronology, and biography, in favor of looser and overlapping ideas and approaches to the problem of social order. The result is a book that emphasizes the convergences of theoretical thinking in sociology, without presenting a level of disciplinary integration that doesn't exist. The book does a very good job of teaching students how to think sociologically."—Karl T. Pfeiffer, University of Alaska Anchorage

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Book SynopsisThe Rewards of Punishment explains why people enforce norms, describes a series of lab experiments testing the theoretical explanation, and explores the implications of the theory for important substantive questions about sex, crime, and human rights.Trade Review"In this elegant short volume, Horne exhibits a mastery of experimental methods used to evaluate theories of norm enforcement and also shows a nearly staggering breadth of reference to philosophical, literary, economic, and political theory, as well as relevant concepts from within experimental psychology. Tour de force comes to mind as an apt description of what she treats us with in The Rewards of Punishment: A Relational Theory of Norm Enforcement." * Keith E. Davis *"Horne's very innovative ideas, particularly her discussion of the origin of political correctness as an over-enforcement of norms, are insightful and original, as are the experiments she has designed to test them. This work includes one of the best defenses of the experimental method around and the real-life examples and empirical puzzles will pique readers' intrinsic interest." -- Satoshi Kanazawa"This is an important book. Previous theories of norms either have been psychological or, if sociological, have not gone much beyond simply recognizing that norms have something to do with groups. In linking norms to the conditions for their enforcement, Horne grasps a connection essential for understanding social norms and their emergence." -- David Willer * University of South Carolina, coauthor of Building Experiments: Testing Social Theory *"This work provides the big picture and then some. Horne tests theoretical predictions in controlled laboratory settings and then applies insights gleaned from the theory to real world problems. This incredibly rare offering will be welcome in the social sciences." -- Brent Simpson

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Book SynopsisGreat Minds revisits key social thinkers that have made significant, distinctive, and controversial contributions to the development of modern social theory.Trade Review"Sociologists Poggi and Sciortino (both, Univ. of Trento, Italy) have written brief interpretative essays for nine classical and contemporary sociological theorists: Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, George Herbert Mead, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, Harold Garfinkel, and Niklas Luhmann. This book, translated from Italian, provides crisp, elegant prose that will assist students in grappling with complex topics and becoming familiar with each theorist's key concepts and methodology."—J. H. Rubin, Choice"Poggi and Sciortino provide a fresh, lively encounter with sociology's major thinkers. The book is effortlessly engaging and conveys the complexity of sociological thinking with ease. Readers are given the chance to both deepen their knowledge and revisit authors in a new and stimulating way. A great achievement!"—Delia Baldassarri, Princeton University"Through a series of highly engaging encounters with the great contributors to our tradition, Poggi and Sciortino do much to advance the critical self-reflection of sociology. Never content with mere exposition, they probe the 'great minds' of the discipline for fresh guidance and insight into the problems still open in sociological inquiry. Even with its focus on the past, this is an inspiringly present- and future-oriented work."—Mustafa Emirbayer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Book SynopsisArgues that postcolonial fiction about catastrophe is underpinned by a Disaster Unconscious, a buried but mobile agenda that forces disastrous events to narrate themselves. Pallavi Rastogi writes that in disaster fiction, a literary Story and its real-life Event are in constant dialectic tension.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the development of a social theory that is at once empirical, interpretive, and critical.Trade Review"Anyone who wants to understand the profound changes that have overtaken the social disciplines in the course of the past decade ought to read Bernstein's book. He examines an extraordinarily wide range of theories with the most scrupulous care, in each case adding a series of extremely perceptive criticisms." * Quentin Skinner, New York Review of Books *"Richard Bernstein is uniquely gifted among our contemporaries to bring into focus the mutual relevance of highly disparate strands in modern social and political theory. We are not likely to have a better work in the field." * Alasdair MacIntyre *"Valuable . . . for identifying the requirements for all rational life." * Religious Studies Review *"A masterful survey and exposition of a broad range of literature on the social sciences. This book . . . shows Bernstein's extraordinary gift for interpretation. He takes author after author and deftly lays out the essentials of their arguments, relating them to others, and gradually developing a coherent picture of a whole realm of discourse. . . . A contribution that is vitally needed." * Political Theory *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA timely collection of articles by some of the leading and emerging scholars and specialists on Haiti, offering a wide range of critical perspectives on the question and meaning of sovereignty in Haiti."" - Alex Dupuy, coauthor of The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti ""Directly asks the provocative question of ownership and Haitian sovereignty within the post-earthquake moment—an unstable period in which ideas on (re)development, humanitarianism, globalization, militarism, self-determination, and security converge."" - Millery Polyné, author of From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870–1964""Powerful essays by experts in their fields addressing what matters most to smaller nations—the meaning of sovereignty, and the horrid trajectory from colonialism, to neocolonialism into neoliberalism."" - Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, author of Haiti: The Breached CitadelTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Foreword Amy Wilentz Introduction: Sovereignty and ‘Ownership’ from the Inside and Out Scott Freeman and Robert Maguire 2. Haitian Sovereignty: A Brief History Laurent Dubois 3. Haiti and the Limits of Sovereignty: Trapped in the Outer Periphery Robert Fatton Jr. 4. New Wine in Old Bottles: the Failure of the Democratic Transition in Haiti Francois Pierre-Louis, Jr 5. Brazilian and South American Political and Military Engagement in Haiti Ricardo Seitenfus 6. Who ‘Owns’ US Aid to Haiti? Robert Maguire 7. Who Owns the Religion of Haiti? Karen Richman 8. Sovereignty and Soil: Collective and Wage Labor in Rural Haiti Scott Freeman 9. Street Sovereignty: Power, Violence, and Respect among Haitian Chelsey Kivland 10. Conclusion: Reflections on Sovereignty Robert Maguire, Scott Freeman & Nicholas Johnson List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisUtopian and intentional communities have dotted the American landscape since the colonial era, yet only in recent decades have archaeologists begun analysing the material culture left behind by these groups. This volume includes discussions of the Shakers, the Harmony Society, the Moravians, the Oneida community, Brook Farm, and Mormon towns.Trade Review“Kozakavich’s brilliant volume may serve as a thorough guidebook to understanding the culture and history of communal and intentional communities. . . . [It] goes beyond the historical record to tease out little-known aspects of intentional communities through the material record.”—Choice “A valuable overview of the topic with thoughtful perspectives on approaches to analysis and interpretation. . . . Provides valuable inspiration for anyone contemplating the role of dissidence in social change.”—Historical Archaeology “A captivating read for anyone with an interest in archaeology and history. It provides an introduction on the history of utopian and intentional communities and archaeological details from many of these communities.”—North American Archaeologist“Useful to archaeologists and students of archaeology who are not familiar with this subject.”—Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive data gathered from archives, interviews, and ethnographic observation, The Glass Church examines the spectacular collapse of The Crystal Cathedral to better understand both the strength and fragility of Robert H. Schuller's ministry. The apparent success of the ministry obscured the tensions that threatened its future.Trade Review"The Glass Church is an excellent example of what can be gained from exercising the sociological imagination, and tells an engaging story about the changing fortunes of one of America’s most entrepreneurial pastors. Martí and Mulder capably weave together analytical perspectives and empirical insights, exploring the very useful alliterative framework of constituency, charisma, and capital as well as the problems resulting from rapid religious growth." -- John P. Bartkowski * author of Remaking the Godly Marriage *"The Glass Church offers a riveting account of the rise and fall of Robert Schuller and the Crystal Cathedral. The story contains lessons for churches large and small. I couldn’t put it down." -- Mark Chaves * author of American Religion: Contemporary Trends *Table of ContentsContents Preface Chapter 1 Constituency, Charisma, and Capital Chapter 2 The Imperative of Church Growth Chapter 3 Migrants to Orange County, California Chapter 4 The Possibility Thinker Chapter 5 No Hippies in the Sanctuary Chapter 6 Dig a Hole, Schuller Chapter 7 Always a New Project Chapter 8 When the Glass Breaks Coda Ends and Beginnings Appendix Research Methodology Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAdding to the burgeoning fields of sport studies and body studies, these essays draw on the traditions of feminist theory, posthumanism, actor network theory, and new materialism to reposition the physical, moving body as crucial to the cultural, political, environmental, and economic systems that it constitutes and within which is constituted.Trade Review"Written by a veritable who’s who of the most visible, consistently provocative, and cutting-edge researchers and thinkers in the field, Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body represents a field-shaping theoretical intervention that will enrich the sociological study of sport and has the potential to bring sport research and theory to broader scholarly audiences and attention." -- Douglas Hartmann * author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy *NEW MATERIALISM AND THE ACTIVE BODY – EP 14 interview with Drs. Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe, and David Andrews * Somatic Podcast *"Although sport and its accoutrements are the focus of all the authors, the primary purpose of the anthology is actually engagement with the theories in order to better understand sport. This anthology may introduce readers to a variety of theorists and approaches, but it is not an introductory work on sport theory. For serious sport theorists, though, it is a smorgasbord. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The editors assembled an impressive pool of scholars who are noted experts in sport fields of cultural, gender, and political studies.... [The book is] timely as it appears at a stage when the quantification of the black body through testing and measurement in the field of sport science has reappeared." * Journal of Sport History *Table of ContentsCover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Introduction: Sport, Physical Culture, and New Materialisms Part I: Body Ontologies Chapter 1. Contextualizing the Material, Moving Body Chapter 2. Objectified Bodies and Instrumental Movement: What Might Merleau-Ponty Say about Fitness Tracking? Chapter 3. Body Objects, Political Physics, and Incorporation: Object-Oriented Ontology for Sport and Physical Culture Chapter 4. Telomere Biology in an Age of Precarity: A "New" Materialist Experiment in a More-Than-Human Kinetics Part II: Body Technologies Chapter 5. Big Bodies, Big Data: Unpacking the FitnessGram Black Box Chapter 6. The Politics of the Gloves: Finding Meaning in Entangled Matter Chapter 7. Diffracting Mind-Body Relations: Feminist Materialism and the Entanglement of Physical Culture in Women's Recovery from Depression Chapter 8. Toward a Multispecies Sport Studies Chapter 9. Reimagining the Dancing Body with and through Barad Part III: Body Ecologies Chapter 10. Reassembling "Sport for Development and Peace" through Actor-Network Theory Chapter 11. Entangling Corporeal Matter and Geomatter: Making and Remaking the Beach Chapter 12. Bodies of Water: Intra-actions among Water, Sport, and the Body Politic Chapter 13. Feminist New Materialisms and the Troubling Waters of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Games Chapter 14. Flattening the City: Assemblage Urbanism and the Moving Body Chapter 15. What Can New Materialisms Do for the Critical Study of Sport and Physical Culture? (Who Does This Book Think It Is?) Afterword Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAdding to the burgeoning fields of sport studies and body studies, these essays draw on the traditions of feminist theory, posthumanism, actor network theory, and new materialism to reposition the physical, moving body as crucial to the cultural, political, environmental, and economic systems that it constitutes and within which is constituted.Trade Review"Written by a veritable who’s who of the most visible, consistently provocative, and cutting-edge researchers and thinkers in the field, Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body represents a field-shaping theoretical intervention that will enrich the sociological study of sport and has the potential to bring sport research and theory to broader scholarly audiences and attention." -- Douglas Hartmann * author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy *NEW MATERIALISM AND THE ACTIVE BODY – EP 14 interview with Drs. Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe, and David Andrews * Somatic Podcast *"Although sport and its accoutrements are the focus of all the authors, the primary purpose of the anthology is actually engagement with the theories in order to better understand sport. This anthology may introduce readers to a variety of theorists and approaches, but it is not an introductory work on sport theory. For serious sport theorists, though, it is a smorgasbord. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The editors assembled an impressive pool of scholars who are noted experts in sport fields of cultural, gender, and political studies.... [The book is] timely as it appears at a stage when the quantification of the black body through testing and measurement in the field of sport science has reappeared." * Journal of Sport History *Table of ContentsCover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Introduction: Sport, Physical Culture, and New Materialisms Part I: Body Ontologies Chapter 1. Contextualizing the Material, Moving Body Chapter 2. Objectified Bodies and Instrumental Movement: What Might Merleau-Ponty Say about Fitness Tracking? Chapter 3. Body Objects, Political Physics, and Incorporation: Object-Oriented Ontology for Sport and Physical Culture Chapter 4. Telomere Biology in an Age of Precarity: A "New" Materialist Experiment in a More-Than-Human Kinetics Part II: Body Technologies Chapter 5. Big Bodies, Big Data: Unpacking the FitnessGram Black Box Chapter 6. The Politics of the Gloves: Finding Meaning in Entangled Matter Chapter 7. Diffracting Mind-Body Relations: Feminist Materialism and the Entanglement of Physical Culture in Women's Recovery from Depression Chapter 8. Toward a Multispecies Sport Studies Chapter 9. Reimagining the Dancing Body with and through Barad Part III: Body Ecologies Chapter 10. Reassembling "Sport for Development and Peace" through Actor-Network Theory Chapter 11. Entangling Corporeal Matter and Geomatter: Making and Remaking the Beach Chapter 12. Bodies of Water: Intra-actions among Water, Sport, and the Body Politic Chapter 13. Feminist New Materialisms and the Troubling Waters of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Games Chapter 14. Flattening the City: Assemblage Urbanism and the Moving Body Chapter 15. What Can New Materialisms Do for the Critical Study of Sport and Physical Culture? (Who Does This Book Think It Is?) Afterword Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisProvides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among ex-Mormons in Utah. Showing that former church members were once deeply embedded in their religious life, Brooks argues that disenchantment unfolds as a struggle to overcome the spiritual, social, and ideological devotion ex-Mormons had to the religious community.Trade Review"An extremely frank, thoughtful, compelling, and analytically rich exploration of contemporary apostasy and religious defection within a Mormon context. As more and more people walk away from their religion, it is essential that we understand the various dynamics at play—and Brooks's investigation on this front is not only highly readable, but extremely insightful. One of the best in-depth studies of apostasy I've ever encountered. Brooks's Disenchanted Lives is excellent. Highly recommended." -- Phil Zuckerman * author of Living the Secular Life *"Brooks has written a must-read for anyone interested in the LDS Church or the formerly religious. His ethnography is a well-researched and deeply informative study of the ties that bind ex-Mormons to the religion they’ve left behind—and the tremendous work they undertake to cut them. His focus on apostasy fills a clear gap in the growing literature on secular people, and his measured account of the challenges facing the Mormon Church is an important contribution to Mormon Studies." -- Joseph Blankholm * assistant professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara *"Understanding ex-Mormons" interview with Marshall Brooks by Jana Reiss * Religion News Service *"Disenchanted Lives is one of the best examinations of religious belief and disbelief published in recent years. It shines in the way Brooks illustrates social science processes with case studies. This is an excellent book worth reading by all who are interested in religion and religious disaffiliation." * Free Inquiry *"The strongest and most intriguing section of the book observes the ways that disenchantment is not simply a matter of rationality and reason coming to win out over faith, but how there are 'emotional, psychological, and embodied dimensions' of leaving the church and its beliefs as well." * Mormon Studies Review *"Contributes to the larger matter in religious studies of why people leave faith traditions even after years of investment." * Reading Religion *"The book is balanced and well-informed, driven not by ideology but by a desire to position the ex-Mormon experience with sensitivity and in the light of other scholarship on religious disaffection. It makes four primary contributions to advance the existing literature." * Dialogue Journal *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The “Crisis of Apostasy” in Modern Mormonism 1 Ambivalent Pasts: Sacred History and the Crisis of Memory 2 “Digging too Deep”: The Paradox of Faith 3 “The Other Side of Happiness”: Disenchantment, Loss, and World-Collapse 4 “I Lost My Body to the Church”: Sexual and Spiritual (dis)Embodiment 5 “Living in the Shadow of the Church”: Apostasy, Stigma, and Projective Fantasy 6 “I’m Apostate, Yes I am”: The Politics and Performance of Secular Identity 7 Religious (dis)Identification: Acquiescence and Anger on the Edge of Mormonism Conclusions: “Pastoral Apologetics” and the Future of Mormonism References About the Author

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Book SynopsisProvides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among ex-Mormons in Utah. Showing that former church members were once deeply embedded in their religious life, E. Marshall Brooks argues that disenchantment unfolds as a struggle to overcome the spiritual, social, and ideological devotion ex-Mormons had to the religious community and not out of a lack of dedication.Trade Review"An extremely frank, thoughtful, compelling, and analytically rich exploration of contemporary apostasy and religious defection within a Mormon context. As more and more people walk away from their religion, it is essential that we understand the various dynamics at play—and Brooks's investigation on this front is not only highly readable, but extremely insightful. One of the best in-depth studies of apostasy I've ever encountered. Brooks's Disenchanted Lives is excellent. Highly recommended." -- Phil Zuckerman * author of Living the Secular Life *"Brooks has written a must-read for anyone interested in the LDS Church or the formerly religious. His ethnography is a well-researched and deeply informative study of the ties that bind ex-Mormons to the religion they’ve left behind—and the tremendous work they undertake to cut them. His focus on apostasy fills a clear gap in the growing literature on secular people, and his measured account of the challenges facing the Mormon Church is an important contribution to Mormon Studies." -- Joseph Blankholm * assistant professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara *"Understanding ex-Mormons" interview with Marshall Brooks by Jana Reiss * Religion News Service *"Disenchanted Lives is one of the best examinations of religious belief and disbelief published in recent years. It shines in the way Brooks illustrates social science processes with case studies. This is an excellent book worth reading by all who are interested in religion and religious disaffiliation." * Free Inquiry *"The strongest and most intriguing section of the book observes the ways that disenchantment is not simply a matter of rationality and reason coming to win out over faith, but how there are 'emotional, psychological, and embodied dimensions' of leaving the church and its beliefs as well." * Mormon Studies Review *"Contributes to the larger matter in religious studies of why people leave faith traditions even after years of investment." * Reading Religion *"The book is balanced and well-informed, driven not by ideology but by a desire to position the ex-Mormon experience with sensitivity and in the light of other scholarship on religious disaffection. It makes four primary contributions to advance the existing literature." * Dialogue Journal *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The “Crisis of Apostasy” in Modern Mormonism 1 Ambivalent Pasts: Sacred History and the Crisis of Memory 2 “Digging too Deep”: The Paradox of Faith 3 “The Other Side of Happiness”: Disenchantment, Loss, and World-Collapse 4 “I Lost My Body to the Church”: Sexual and Spiritual (dis)Embodiment 5 “Living in the Shadow of the Church”: Apostasy, Stigma, and Projective Fantasy 6 “I’m Apostate, Yes I am”: The Politics and Performance of Secular Identity 7 Religious (dis)Identification: Acquiescence and Anger on the Edge of Mormonism Conclusions: “Pastoral Apologetics” and the Future of Mormonism References About the Author

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Book SynopsisPhilip Rieff earned recognition as one of the most profound social theorists of culture. Through such works as ""Freud: The Mind of the Moralist"", he proved himself an incisive interpreter of Freud and his legacy. Here, he elaborates on his critique of our culture as distinguishable only by its rejection of any and all visions of sacred order.

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Book SynopsisLyric essayists draw on memoir, poetry, and prose to push against the arbitrary genre restrictions in creative nonfiction, opening up space not only for new forms of writing, but also new voices and a new literary canon. This anthology features some of the best lyric essays published in the last several years by prominent and emerging writers.

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Book SynopsisDetails the experiences of Black people with diverse sexual identities from ages eighteen to thirty. The work examines how the intersection of racial, sexual, gender and religious identities influence self-expression and lifestyle choices in this understudied, often hidden population, by exploring how racial, sexual and religious dynamics play out.Trade ReviewFrom Jesus to J-Setting is a new take on religion, spirituality, and BIPOC LGBTQIA communities. I have not seen anything similar." - Carol S. Walther, author and coeditor of Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China"From Jesus to J-Setting offers an innovative exploration of how BMSM embrace religion and spirituality, wrestling with the question of what can understanding BMSM’s connection to spirituality do to help religious and other institutions better support this population." - Erica Chito Childs, author of Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture

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Book SynopsisDetails the experiences of Black people with diverse sexual identities from ages eighteen to thirty. The work examines how the intersection of racial, sexual, gender and religious identities influence self-expression and lifestyle choices in this understudied, often hidden population, by exploring how racial, sexual and religious dynamics play out.Trade ReviewFrom Jesus to J-Setting is a new take on religion, spirituality, and BIPOC LGBTQIA communities. I have not seen anything similar." - Carol S. Walther, author and coeditor of Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China"From Jesus to J-Setting offers an innovative exploration of how BMSM embrace religion and spirituality, wrestling with the question of what can understanding BMSM’s connection to spirituality do to help religious and other institutions better support this population." - Erica Chito Childs, author of Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture

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Book SynopsisLeading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallersteins world-systems analysis.Trade Review“As the current crisis of financial markets displays both its high level of economic uncertainty and its devastating geopolitical consequences—with East and West, North and South progressively trading their places—the prescience of Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis appears admirable. But the authors of this book also demonstrate that it potentially affects the basic time-space determinants of every cultural critique. A timely and fruitful contribution.”—Étienne Balibar, author of We, the People of Europe?“This is a very compelling collection, one that is sure to be of interest to humanists and social scientists and to the growing number of programs in ‘global studies.’ It turns to Immanuel Wallerstein’s ‘large-scale vision’ as a means of countering the historical damage done by large-scale capitalism and acquiring a sharper understanding of the notion of ‘system’ and of the contingencies of ‘culture’ within it.”—Françoise Lionnet, co-editor of The Creolization of Theory“One… indication of such promise is the collection Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale,Culture... As the collection stages a conversation between world-systems and literary and cultural studies, it brings Wallerstein into the optics of the known for colleagues who are neither in sociology nor history departments.” -- Stephen Shapiro * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *“The collection of essays in this compilation ... should be of interest to scholars both in the humanities and the social sciences, as well as those in the growing number of global studies programs.” -- Okori Uneke * International Social Science Review *"The breadth and scope of the volume make it a valuable reference resource for anyone interested in the contribution and implications of world-systems analysis to the humanities. The cogent analyses provided by the contributors offer a much-needed indication of the ongoing transformations in the field. At the same time, the thoughtful account of the impact and consequences of Wallerstein’s approach will benefit students and scholars alike—especially, those interested in developing a holistic approach for the explanation and understanding of the increasingly complex world system.” -- Emilian Kavalski * Itinerario *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Most Important Thing Happening 1 Part 1. System and Responsibility The Modern World-System: Its Structures, Its Geoculture, Its Crisis and Transformation / Richard Lee 27 Blaming the System / Bruce Robbins 41 Part 2. Literature: Restructured, Re-historicized, Re-scaled World-Systems Analysis, Evolutionary Theory, Weltliteratur / Franco Moretti 67 The Scale of World Literature / Nivrana Tanoukhi 78 Part 3. Respatializing, Remapping, Recognizing The Space of the World: Beyond State-Centricism? / Neil Brenner 101 Cartographies of Connection: Ocean Maps as Metaphors for Inter-Area History / Kären Wigen 138 What Is a Poem?: The Event of Women and the Modern Girl as Problems in Global or World History / Tani E. Barlow 155 Part 4. Ethics, Otherness, System Legal System of International Rights / Helen Stacy 187 Rationality and World-Systems Analysis: Fanon and the Impact of the Ethico-Historical / David Palumbo-Liu 202 Thinking about the Humanities / Immanuel Wallerstein 223 The Twilight of Capital? / Gopal Balakrishnan 227 Bibliography 233 Contributors 249 Index 251

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores how contemporary governments, particularly in settler nations such as Australia and the United States, deflect social responsibility for the crushing harms experienced by communities living at the margins.Trade Review“Economies of Abandonment is an erudite book that unravels crucial linkages between the transformed character of liberal policies in our present and the shattered lives of those who live under its ever-expanding shadow. It will be widely read and appreciated for its thoughtful and provocative arguments.”—Saba Mahmood, University of California, Berkeley“Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s book is ambitious and original. It reflects her extraordinary ability to move from high theoretical discussions of philosophical concepts, to broad perspectives on late liberalism, to precise accounts of political and legal controversies, as well as public conversations on sex, drugs, religion, ecology, and other matters. Her argument in Economies of Abandonment is impressive in its breadth and depth. The book will provide an important contribution to future critical discussions, not only in anthropology but much more broadly.”—Éric Fassin, École Normale Supérieure“Economies of Abandonment impresses, to be sure, because of Povinelli’s penetrating analyses and intellectual sweep, but even more so because of her conscience, political passion and willingness to persevere.” -- Kenneth M. George * Interventions *“Situated between the ‘eventful’ tenses of settler governance and anthropological imaginaries, Povinelli continues to trace out how we might produce positive sociographies of those whom settler states encounter, scrutinize and abandon.” -- Timothy Neale * Postcolonial Studies *"Economies of Abandonment is extremely thought provoking, insightful and rich in ideas. It rewards, if not demands, re-reading." -- Geoff Buchanan * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. The Child in the Broom Closet 1 1. The Part That Has No Part 47 2. The Brackets of Recognition 75 3. Road Kill: Ethical Substance, Exhaustion, Endurance 101 4. Events of Abandonment 131 5. After Good and Evil, Whither Sacrificial Love? 163 Conclusion. Negative Critique, Positive Sociographies 187 Notes 193 Bibliography 211 Index 225

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Book SynopsisKadji Amin challenges the idealization of Jean Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory, bringing the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary queer politics and scholarship, including prison abolition, homonationalism, and pinkwashing.Trade Review"Amin's commitment to re-evaluating the unsettling practices of Genet's life represents a serious attempt to contend with the colonial, racist, and hierarchical legacies present in queer social forms. . . . Disturbing Attachments, by investigating the traction queer theory can have in contending with the compromises and failures hidden within its own field, demonstrates the potential for critical self-inquiry." -- Rajat D. Singh * Gay & Lesbian Review *"There is no doubt that Disturbing Attachments is, first and foremost, a work of and about queer studies, a fearless and scholarly probing of its disciplinary norms, its discursive limits, and its most embarrassing relations. It should be read by all those who care about the discipline’s future . . . and, most importantly, by those who care about its past." -- Andrew Counter * French Studies *"Amin’s book offers a dizzying number of theoretical interventions, in an elegant style that makes up for the uncompromising density of the text. With refreshing currency, Disturbing Attachments displaces queer studies outside its presentist US context." -- Mehammed Amadeus Mack * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"Disturbing Attachments is a formidable read. It is theoretically mobile, stylistically gratifying, and conceptually probing." -- Helmut Puff * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Attachment Genealogies of Pederastic Modernity 19 2. Light of a Dead Star: The Nostalgic Modernity of Prison Pederasty 45 3. Racial Fetishism, Gay Liberation, and the Temporalities of the Erotic 76 4. Pederastic Kinship 109 5. Enemies of the State: Terrorism, Violence, and the Affective Politics of Transnational Coalition 141 Epilogue. Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory's Affective Histories 176 Notes 191 Bibliography 235 Index 249

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Book SynopsisPresents a new way of looking at Tibet under the rule of the Dalai Lamas (1642-1959). Peter Schwieger attempts to make transparent the complexity and dynamics of the Dalai Lamas' domination using the work of sociologist Niklas Luhman (1927-1998) as his theoretical starting point.

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Book SynopsisAlthough religious fundamentalism is often thought to be confined to monotheistic âreligions of the bookâ, this study examines the emergence of a fundamentalism rooted in the Shinto tradition and considers its role in shaping postwar Japanese nationalism and politics.

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Book SynopsisPresents alternative trajectories for how to take steps toward achieving a theoretically informed understanding of the analytical and practical challenges of social theory (in terms of social, sociological, and critical theory), and looks beyond pluralism and fragmentation to the kind of roles social theorists may play.Table of ContentsEDITORIAL BOARD. List of Contributors. Introduction. The Epistemological Fate of the Authoritarian Character Studies of the Frankfurt School. A Legacy for the Study of Racism, Antisemitism, and Fascism?. Charisma and Critique: Critical Theory, Authority, and the Critique of Political Theology. Trauma and the Limits of Redemptive Critique: Interrogating the Haunting Voices of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The Direction of Contemporary Critical Theory: A Response to Amy Allen's The Politics of Our Selves. Who are we and Who do we want to be? Amy Allen's The Politics of Our Selves. Explaining the Power of Gendered Subjectivity. Power, Autonomy, and Gender: Reply to Critics. Stranger to you and Stranger to Myself? Theorizing Self-Estrangement. For Pragmatic Public Sociology: Theory and Practice After the Pragmatic Turn. Empire, Global Capitalism, and Theory: Reconsidering Hardt and Negri. Žižek's Negative (Positive) Project or, Negativity as Positive Possibility. The Diversity of Social Theories. Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisDramatic socio-economic transformations over the last two decades have brought social policy and social welfare issues to prominence in many East Asian societies.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Misa Izuhara PART I: SHAPING WELFARE STATES IN EAST ASIA: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT PATHS 1. Pathways of Welfare State Development in East Asia John Hudson and Gyu-Jin Hwang 2. Between Western Europe and East Asia: Development of Social Policy in Japan Shogo Takegawa 3. Social Policy and its Implications to Structural Shifts: A Comparison between Taiwan and Korea in the Colonial Era Yu-fang Chang and Yeun-wen Ku 4. Past Policies, Current Arrangements: The Enduring Influence of British Colonial Social Policy in Malaysia and Hong Kong Kevin Caraher 5. Shaping Social Policy in the Reform Era in China Kinglun Ngok PART II: DEMOGRAPHY, ECONOMY AND SOCIAL POLICY 6. After the Regional and Global Financial Crises: Social Development Challenges and Social Policy Responses in Hong Kong and Macau Ka Ho Mok 7. Exploring Social and Generational Equity in the Context of China’s Socio-economic and Demographic Transition Maggie Lau 8. Transitional Generations? The Contrasting Experiences of the 30-Somethings in China and Japan Ray Forrest and Misa Izuhara 9. The Shaping of Social Policies in Relation to Demographic Ageing in East Asia Kalyani K. Mehta PART III: EAST ASIA AND WELFARE REGIME DEBATES 10. Developmentalism and Productivism in East Asian Welfare Regimes Young Jun Choi 11. Ethnocentrism, the Developmental State and East Asian Welfare Alan Walker and Chack-kie Wong 12. Social Protection, Governance and the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in East Asia Patricia Kennett, Kam Wah Chan and Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan 13. Gender and Welfare States in East Asia: Women between Tradition and Equality Sirin Sung PART IV: RESEARCH AND SOCIETY 14. Presence of the State: Probing the Middle Class and Civic Organizations in Chinese Societies Tai-lok Lui and Shuo Liu 15. The Role of Philosophy and Ethics in Social Policy and Research: A Case Study of Hong Kong and Other Chinese Societies Ho Mun Chan 16. Challenges and Directions: Building a Comparative Quantitative Dataset for East Asian Social Policies Chan-ung Park and Dongchul Jung 17. Qualitative Research on Family Generations in Changing East Asian Societies Misa Izuhara and Ray Forrest PART V: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL POLICY CHALLENGES IN EAST ASIA 18. Housing Policy in East Asia Richard Ronald 19. From Apartheid to Semi-citizenship: Chinese Migrant Workers and their Challenge to Social Policy Linda Wong 20. Poverty, the Working Poor and Social Policy in East Asia: Exploring the Second Safety Net Proposal in Japan Masami Iwata 21. The Political Economy of Cross-border Higher Education: The Intra-national Flow of Students in Greater China William Yat Wai Lo 22. Re-examining Family-centred Care Arrangements in East Asia Junko Yamashita, Naoko Soma and Raymond K.H. Chan Index

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Book SynopsisThorstein Veblen was a multidisciplinary social scientist whose original insights continue to inspire debate. This interdisciplinary and comprehensive book determines that Veblen’s disparate theories of conspicuous consumption, imperial Germany, the giant corporation and the speculation-led cycle all add up to a consistent and coherent world-view.Trade ReviewReisman offers a brilliant distillation of Veblen's jaundiced purview of the social, psychological and pecuniary motivations that have driven man the social animal in his economic life down the ages, from noble savage to predatory barbarian in his ancient, modern, and potential guises. Avoiding hagiography, this book exposes Veblen's exaggerations as well as his compelling institutional insights into the evolution of capitalism and socialism. Reisman's own intellectual sweep in explaining and criticising Veblen demonstrate political economy at its best. - Roger Sandilands, University of Strathclyde, UK Veblen is a notoriously difficult economist to read and understand. He was, however, unequivocal in his scorn for neoclassical economics, whose demise he took pleasure in predicting. In light of the limp excuses offered by the economics profession for its failure to anticipate the current global financial crisis, Reisman's incisive analysis of Veblen's writings suggests that were Veblen alive today, he would be revelling in schadenfreude. This timely book will make uncomfortable reading for neoclassical economists. - Douglas Mair, Heriot-Watt University, UK Fascination with the economics of Thorstein Veblen is today no less than it was fifty years ago. Many books have been written about his life and ideas. But David Reisman breaks new ground by providing one of the best and most comprehensive explainations of Veblen's thought. Written in a strikingly fresh and lucid style, this work is one of the landmarks of the literature on this great and enduringly relevant economist. - Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UK Considering the inability of conventional economics to comprehend the socio-economic convulsions over the past few years in so many countries, it is surely time to try something else. David Reisman's The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen thus appears at a most opportune moment. This original analytical study is the best introduction into Veblen's work that I know of, and will, I trust, encourage a renewal of interest in possibly the most unjustly neglected of economists. Reisman's primary contention that there is - despite obstacles to comprehension created by Veblen's personal idiosyncrasies and unconventional literary style - a Veblen structure of thought, or general system, is fully confirmed by the evidence presented in his book. In this demonstration lies its great merit. --- Samuel Hollander, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Institutional Economics 3. Instincts and Endowments 4. Savages and Barbarians 5. Cumulative Causation 6. Consumption 7. Production 8. The Profit Motive 9. Corporation and Credit 10. The Age of Irrelevance 11. Socialism: The Intelligentsia and the Proletariat 12. Socialism: The Engineers 13. The Reversion to War 14. Perpetual Peace 15. Neoclassical Economics 16. Who Was Thorstein Veblen? References Index

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Book SynopsisThe International Handbook on Social Policy and the Environment reviews debates concerning poverty, inequalities, social distribution, social rights, taxation, healthcare, education, water and energy policies to examine the relevance and importance of climate change to social policies and welfare reform.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Tony Fitzpatrick PART I: JUSTICE AND POVERTY 1. The New Social Risks and Opportunities of Climate Change André Schaffrin 2. Unequal Emissions – Unequal Policy Impacts: How Do Different Areas of CO2 Emissions Compare? Milena Büchs, Nicholas Bardsley and Sylke V. Schnepf 3. An Ecosocial Understanding of Poverty Tony Fitzpatrick PART II: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS 4. The Affordability of Water and Energy Pricing – the Case of Germany Erik Gawel and Wolfgang Bretschneider 5. Green Taxes in Scandinavia: Do they Contribute to (in)equality? Anders Branth Pedersen and Helle Ørsted Nielsen 6. ENGO Activism in the EU: The G10, Climate Change and Social Policy Michael Briguglio, Maria Brown and Ian Bugeja 7. Environmental Health Costs of Economic Globalization Policies in Latin America Judith Cherni 8. Environmental and Social Policies in Japan Yasuko Kameyama 9. Degrowth for Sustainability, Equality and Poverty Reduction: Some lessons from Cuba Karen Bell 10. Sustainability and the Social Economy in Canada: From Resource Reliance to Resilience? Julie L. MacArthur 11. Using Markets to Achieve Environmental Ends: Reconciling Social-equity Issues in Contemporary Water Policy in Australia Karen Hussey PART III: MAKING AND IMPLEMENTING 12. The Interaction of EU Climate Policies: Mechanisms and Lessons Elin Lerum Boasson and Jørgen Wettestad 13. Sustainable Development by the Multi-stakeholder Model? Magnus Boström 14. Education for Sustainable Development and Welfare Reform: A Very British Case Study? Carolyn Snell and Sarah Brooks-Wilson PART IV: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS 15. Social Rights and Natural Resources Hartley Dean 16. The Nature of Nature: Aristotle vs. Epicurus Tony Fitzpatrick Index

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Book SynopsisReflexive Labour Law in the World Society investigates trends in labour and employment law from the perspective of modern social systems theory. the reflexive regulation and deregulation of labour market policies and labour law;Trade ReviewThis book addresses the major issue of the nature and future of labour law and employment regulation. It transcends current traditional scientific and policy debates in two related ways. First by exploring the potential of labour law as reflexive (re)regulation and second by putting labour law in the global context - i.e. the World Society. The book convincingly indicates how labour law can indeed successfully operate among the different societal systems and between global, national and local levels. --Ton Wilthagen, Tilburg University, The NetherlandsRogowski's challenging book offers readers a rigorous but accessible introduction to the theory of reflexive law, important and original insights into current issues in industrial relations and labour law and a fascinating preview of how a broad-based system of transnational law might one day emerge. Building on foundations laid down by Luhmann and Teubner, and on his own twenty-plus years of pioneering work, Rogowski firmly establishes reflexive labour law as a plausible and useful approach to the discipline. --Harry Arthurs, Osgoode Hall Law School, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Theory 1. The World Society Context: The Globalisation of Labour Law 2. Reflexive Labour Law: A General Introduction 3. Industrial Relations as a Social System Part II: Reflexive Trends in Modern Labour Law 4. Reflexive Employment Protection 5. Reflexive Regulation of Labour Market Policies 6. Reflexive Deregulation of Labour Market Policies and Labour Law 7. Reflexive Regulation of Labour and Employment Conflict Resolution Part III: Reflexive European and International Labour Law 8. Reflexive Coordination of European Social and Employment Policies 9. Reflexive Implementation of EU Employment Law – A Case Study of the Working Time Directive 10. Reflexive Global Labour Law Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on working-class women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds employed in a variety of jobs. This work documents the story of women learning about the sources of their powerlessness and mobilizing to increase their power.Trade Review"Women and the Politics of Empowerment is filled with pictures of women whose lives the masculinist ideology of our disciplines has said are not worthy of our interest. Bookman, Morgen, and their colleagues awaken all kinds of ideas about where to go from here." --Women & Politics "Drawing together an excellent compilation of case studies of community and workplace organizing, Bookman and Morgen redefine the political arena and process. They focus on the statuses of working-class and low-income women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, thereby giving attention to women who have been largely ignored as actors in the political arena... These rich and varied case materials are useful for the scholar-researcher, the activist, and for the teacher in women's studies, social work, public policy, education, and public health." --Contemporary Sociology "Don't let the title...scare you... The book is devoted to bridging the gap between theory and practice, between feminism and working-class women. And it succeeds, through fourteen widely disparate, yet complementary essays about working-class women, Black, Latina and white, struggling on the job and in their communities for social change." --New Directions for WomenTable of ContentsRethinking Women and Politics: An Introductory Essay Sandra Morgen and Ann Bookman Part I: Expanding and Redefining the Political Terrain 1. "Making Your Job Good Yourself": Domestic Service and the Construction of Personal Dignity Bonnie Thornton Dill 2. Building in Many Places: Multiple Commitments and Ideologies in Black Women's Community Work Cheryl Townsend Gilkes 3. Gender and Grassroots Leadership Karen Brodkin Sacks Part II: Gender and the Shaping of Women's Political Consciousness 4. "It's the Whole Power of the City Against Us!": The Development of Political Consciousness in a Women's Health Care Coalition Sandra Morgen 5. Women Workers and Collective Action: A Case Study from the Insurance Industry Cynthia B. Costello 6. The Edison School Struggle: The Reshaping of Working-Class Education and Women's Consciousness Wendy Luttrell Part III: Reverberations among the Spheres: Family, Workplace, and Community Networks 7. Unionization in an Electronics Factory: The Interplay of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class Ann Bookman 8. Urban Politics in the Higher Education of Black Women: A Case Study Andree Nicola-McLaughlin and Zala Chandler 9. The Politics of Race and Gender: Organizing Chicana Cannery Workers in Northern California Patricia Zavella Part IV: Conditions, Catalysts, and Constraints: Political Economy and Grassroots Activism 10. Women Unions, and "Participative Management": Organizing in the Sunbelt Louise Lamphere and Guillermo J. Grenier 11. Working-Class Women, Social Protest, and Changing Ideologies Ida Susser 12. Vending on the Streets: City Policy, Gentrification, and Public Patriarchy Roberta M. Spalter-Roth Part V: Grassroots Organizing and Political Theory: Toward A Synthesis 13. Communities, Resistance, and Women's Activism: Some Implications for a Democratic Polity Martha A. Ackelsberg 14. "Carry It On": Continuing the Discussion and the Struggle Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen The Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis is more than a literary critique - it is a work of perception, of analysis that reveals a portrait of Kundera the novelist as one of the greatest demystifiers of our time. This significant work deals with all of Milan Kundera's novels up to his most recent work, Slowness, which marks the beginning of a new phase of his writing.Trade Review``Kundera or The Memory of Desire offers hope to all those who still care about aesthetics.'' -- Marguerite Andersen, Canadian Book Review Annual -- 200502``Eva Le Grand...is a professor, that is to say she is assigned in principle to inscribe literature in a pedagogical framework -- and yet, as this work shows brilliantly, nothing could be more alien to her than the current practice of rendering literature sterile. It is this, as much as her perfect knowledge of the slightest aspect of the work in question, and the exceptional complicity she obviously maintains with it, which for me constitutes the most important quality of her essay: nothing of Kundera's extraordinary insolence is erased, not even the most scatalogical motifs of his novels..., her mastery of the power of dis-idealization of these motifs is complete... One cannot imagine...a better incentive to read (or re-read) Kundera than this essay: it expresses, in all its nonconformity, a pleasure which Eva Le Grand renders irresistibly contagious.'' -- from the Foreword by Guy ScarpettaTable of Contents Kundera or The Memory of Desire by Eva le Grand, translated by Lin Burman Foreward: A Collaborative Reading Guy Scarpetta Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Kitsch and the Desire for Eternity Part Two: Variation Chapter One: A Voyage Inside the Time of Europe Chapter Two: Novel-Variation or Crossroads Part Three: Don Juan's Final Glance, or the Memory of Desire Epilogue: A Lesson from Epicurus: The Wisdom of Slowness Notes Bibliography

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