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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Basic Contours of the Self.- Chapter 2. The Construction of the Self in the Time of Modernity.- Chapter 3. Individualization and the Self.- Chapter 4. Rationalization, Emotion and the Self.- Chapter 5. Power Shaped Self.- Chapter 6. The Postmodern Self.- Chapter 7. Self as Performance.- Chapter 8. Liquid Self.- Chapter 9. Self as Simulacrum.

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Book SynopsisHistorische Konzeptionen des Affektiven.- Vulnerabilität und Traumatisierung als pathische Affekte.- Affekte und Affizierungen in (digitaler) Therapie und Beratung.- Affekte und Affizierungen in und durch gesellschaftliche Kontexte.- Affekte, Methodisches Arbeiten und (Forschungs-)Ethik.

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Book SynopsisSocial Transformations in Chinese Societies is the offi cial annual of The Hong Kong Sociological Association. It publishes articles of original research that addresses theoretical, methodological, or substantive issues of sociological signifi cance about social transformations in Chinese societies. The focus is mainly on Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, the Mainland, Singapore, and Chinese overseas.Table of ContentsVolume 2: From the Editors Authors’ Biographies Special Focus: Sociology for Change Guest Editor: KU HOK-BUN Hopeful Sociology for Change - KU HOK-BUN Toward a Hopeful Sociology - RICHARD MADSEN Religion and the (Second) Axial Age: Comments on Richard Madsen - CHAN HOI-MAN Chinese Religion and the Modern Moral Order: Comments on Richard Madsen - CHAN SHUN-HING Rejoinder to Chan and Chan - RICHARD MADSEN Public Sociology on a Global Scale - MICHAEL BURAWOY Voices from the Margin - LUI TAI-LOK A Will to Public Sociolgy: Parrhesia or Dialectical Regression? - PUN NGAI Articles: Chinese Immigrant Women in Canada: From Professional to Family Careers - JANET SALAFF AND ARENT GREVE Global Transformations and the Rising Force of Transparency: With Special Reference to the Recent Development in Four Chinese Societies - BURKART HOLZNER AND LESLIE HOLZNER Where is the Stork? A Sociological Insight on Barriers to Fertility in Singapore - PAULIN T STRAUGHAN, ANGELIQUE CHAN & GAVIN JONES Decentering: The Rise of Hong Kong as a Network Society - WONG SIU-LUN Review Essay: Chinese Business Networks and Chinese Entrepreneurship: Myths and Partial Truths - CHU YIN-WAH Book Reviews: In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring - TAM YUEK-MUI Hong Kong’s Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis - ALEX CHAN WO-SHUN Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong - ALAN SMART The State and Life Chances in Urban China: Redistribution and Stratification, 1949-1994 - WU XIAOGANG Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Resistance - WU KAMING Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace - JANET SALAFF State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies - CHERIS CHAN SHUN-CHING Colours of Money, Shades of Pride: Historicities and Moral Politics in Industrial Conflicts in Hong Kong - SHAE WAN-CHAW Notice to Contributors Notice to Subscribers

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Book SynopsisCulture studies try to understand how people assume identities and perceive reality. In this light narration is a fundamental cultural technique. What is considered "fictitious" or "real" no longer separates narratives from an "outside" they refer to, but rather represents different narratives. The book’s unique interdisciplinary approach shows how the implications of this fundamental insight go far beyond the sphere of literature and carry weight for both scholarly and scientific disciplines.Table of ContentsContents Editors’ Introduction: A Sociological Perspective on Science and Narration Jochen Gläser Stones, Mortar, Building: Knowledge Production and Community Building in Narratives in Science Narrated Realities Narration and Abstraction in Natural Sciences Klaus Mecke Narratives in Physics: Quantitative Metaphors and formula ∈Tropes? Michael Böhler “Render Innocuous the Abstraction We Fear”: Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Epochal Conflict between Scientific Knowledge and Narrative Knowing Arianna Borrelli Between Logos and Mythos: Narratives of “Naturalness” in Today’s Particle Physics Community Narration, Fiction and the Entangled Human Sciences Bernd Bösel Philosophy as an “Introduction to a General Science of Revolution”? On Peter Sloterdijk’s Narrative-Evocative Philosophizing Brigitte Boothe Narrative Persuasion and Narrative Irritation in Psychotherapy: Bio- graphical Narratives, Deferred Dramaturgy and Narrative Affirmation Christoph Leitgeb Narrating the Uncanny – Uncanny Narration: Freud’s Essay and Theories of Fiction Narrated Communities Narration, Memory and Identity Elena Messner Literature and (Ethno-)Nationalist Narratives in the (Post-)Yugoslav Region Dorothee Birke Doris Lessing’s “Alfred and Emily” and the Ethics of Narrated Memory Aura Heydenreich Closed Timelike Curves: Gödel’s Solution for Einstein’s Field Equa- tions in the General Theory of Relativity and Bach’s “The Musical Offering” as Configuration Models for Narrative Identity Constructions in Richard Powers’s “The Time of Our Singing” Translating Narrations into Different Cultures and Media Michael Rössner Translatio/ns of Identity-Building Narratives: The Character of “El Cid” in Spanish and Latin American Texts from the 12th to the 20th Century Antonio Baldassarre The Politics of Images: Considerations on French Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Art (ca. 1800–ca. 1880) as a Paradigm of Narration and Translation Notes on Contributors Index of Names

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Book SynopsisAesthetics is no longer the preserve of art historians and philosophers of art. Changes in society, culture, economy, urban dynamics and everyday life, push us towards considering the aesthetic components of traditionally non-aesthetic domains. Today it is not only legitimate but necessary to query the relationship between the social as a cohesive and encompassing form of community and human institutions and the aesthetic, that is the sensual, sensory, or, perhaps better, the sensible. Increasingly the social seems to emerge from the sensible and sentient meaning of objects. The volume SocioAesthetics: Ambience – Imaginary collects scholars from social science, aesthetics, arts, and cultural studies in case-driven debate, ranging from biometrics to luxury commodities, on how a new alignment of aesthetics and the social is possible and what the possible prospects of this may be.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION Part I. Ambience – Imaginary 1. The Socioaesthetics of Being Surrounded. Ambient Sociality and Contemporary Movement-Space, Ulrik Schmidt 2. Distant Relations, Negotiating Experiences of Space in Modern Literature, Frederik Tygstrup 3. Mapped Bodies. Notes on the use of biometrics in geopolitical contexts, Max Liljefors and Lila Lee Morrison 4. Mnemosyne and Amnesia. Social memory and the paradoxes of monumental images, Andrea Pinotti 5. The Hidden Homeless - From Bio-politics to Popular Culture in Contemporary Japanese Society, Miya Yoshida 6. No Man’s Langue: Rethinking Language with Ghérasim Luca, Laura Erber Part II. Imaginary – Ambience 7. Here is a Picture of No Country: The Image Between Fiction and Politics in Eric Baudelaire’s Lost Letters to Max, Asbjørn Grønstad 8. Cute and Cool in Contemporary Japanese Visual Arts, Gunhild Borggreen 9. Socioaesthetics from the margin – On prosopopoiesis and new media, Anders Michelsen 10. The Coming of the Intrinsic Age, Gerhard Schulze 11. So Sharp You Could Bleed: Sharpies and Artistic Representation, A Moment in the Seventies History of Melbourne, Peter Beilharz & Sian Supski 12. Smuggling Lust. On the Cultural Re-Turn of Luxury, Isabel Capeloa Gil

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Book SynopsisThe essays collected in The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace consider connections between ecology, environmental ethics, nonviolence, and philosophy of peace. Edited by Andrew Fiala, this book includes essays written by important scholars in the field of peace studies, pacifism, and nonviolence, including Michael Allen Fox, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Bill Gay, and others. Topics include: ecological consciousness and nonviolence, environmental activism and peace activism, the environmental impact of militarism, native and indigenous peoples and peace, food ethics and nonviolence, and other topics. The book should be of interest to scholars, students, and activists who are interested in the relationship between peace movements and environmentalism.Table of Contents00 Preface, Andrew Fiala 1. Introduction: Violence and Nonviolence in the Environmental Movement, Andrew Fiala, Fresno State University 2. Return to Earth, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, SUNY Cortland 3. Reflections on Violence, Michael Fox, Queens University/University of New England 4. On War and the Environment, Lloyd Steffen, Lehigh University 5. Negative Impacts of Militarism, Bill Gay, University of North Carolina, Charlotte 6. Nature and Human Dwelling, Wendy Hamblet, North Carolina A&T 7. Moral Extensionism and Nonviolence, Sanjay Lal, Clayton State University 8. Anthropocentrism, Conservatism and Green Political Thought, Michael Hemmingsen, McMaster University 9. Guerrilla Gardening for Peace: Existentialist Ethics in Food Deserts, Damon Boria, Purdue University 10. Slow Violence and Agriculture, Jonathan McConnell, Purdue University 11. Kant’s Duty Ethics as a complement for resolving socio-political conflict in Africa, Solomon Laleye, Adekunle Ajasin University (Nigeria) 12. Sequoyah and Seattle: Chief World Systems, Dave Boersema, Pacific University 13. The Beloved Community, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, SUNY Cortland

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Book SynopsisDoes the growing economic might of regional superpowers like Brazil mean that dependency theory of the 1960s was all wrong? The answer to this and many other enigmas of development is found in Sub-Imperialism Revisited, a theoretically rigorous study by the brilliant Mexican analyst Adrián Sotelo Valencia. In analysing the 21st Century conditions of Latin America, Sotelo systematically explores the concept of "sub-imperialism" as advanced in the pioneering work of Ruy Mauro Marini. Himself a former student of Marini, Sotelo elucidates the explanatory power of a fully Marxist conception of imperialism and underdevelopment while providing considerable insight into opposing conceptions of dependency. This timely book ultimately enables readers to appreciate why radical dependency theory remains more relevant today than ever.Table of ContentsForeword  Carlos Eduardo Martins List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Dependency Theory in the Post-1945 Development Literature of Latin America 2 Marini’s Marxism and Dependency Theory Today 3 Neo-imperialism and Neo-dependency: Two Sides of the Same Historical-Political Process 4 Sub-imperialism and Dependency 5 The United States and Brazil: Antagonistic Cooperation 6 Brasil Potência vs. Sub-imperialism 7 Dictatorship, Democracy and the State of the Fourth Power 8 Sub-imperialism and the Contemporary Capitalist Crisis Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPopular interest in empathy has surged in the past two decades. Research on its origins, uses and development is on the rise, and empathy is increasingly referenced across a wide range of sectors – from business to education. While there is widespread consensus about the value of empathy, however, its supposed stable nature and offerings remain insufficiently examined. By critically exploring different perspectives and aspects of empathy in distinct contexts, Exploring Empathy aims to generate deeper reflection about what is at stake in discussions and practices of empathy in the 21st century. Ten contributors representing seven disciplines and five world regions contribute to this dialogical volume about empathy, its offerings, limitations and potentialities for society. By deepening our understanding of empathy in all its complexity, this volume broadens the debate about both the role of empathy in society, and effective ways to invoke it for the benefit of all.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Exploring Empathy   Rebeccah J. Nelems and LJ (Nic) Theo Part I: Exploring Empathy’s ‘Goods’ and Limits   Empathy as Orientation Rather than Feeling: Why Empathy Is Ethically Complex   Steve Larocco   What Is This Thing Called Empathy?   Rebeccah J. Nelems Part II: Exploring the Affective and Cognitive Workings of Empathy   Empathy, Complex Thinking and Their Interconnections   Camilla Pagani   Reflecting on Empathy   Gavin J. Fairbairn   Empathy with the Enemy: Can the Intellectually Gifted Experience Empathy with the Intellectually Impaired?   Veronica Wain   Cognitive Milestones on Mutual Paths towards Empathy: A Four-Step Model   Nurit Sahar Part III: Exploring Empathy in the Media, Arts and Culture   Empathic New(s) Orientations in Narratives about Sexuality   LJ (Nic) Theo   Art or Science? Formulating Empathy in Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad   Abby Bentham   ‘Gays Are the New Jews’: Homophobic Representations in African Media versus Twitterverse Empathy   Charles King   Seeing the Loop: Examining Empathy through Art Practice   Fiona Larkin

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Book SynopsisThe third volume on theoretical driven methodology in the social sciences, again edited by Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg, explains how to identify sociological research objects, and the art of living theory. Theoretical concepts such as social structure, the Global South, social bonds, organisations and management are explore and developed by a broad range of authors. The methodological chapters, including critical notes on sociology and uses of statistics, the value of thought experiments in sociology, researching subjects in time and space, and an academic 'star war' between Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith are indispensible for researchers and students interested in theoretical construction work in the social sciences. Contributors are: Göran Ahrne, Michela Betta, Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, Michael Burawoy, Raju Das, David Fasenfest, Raimund Hasse, Johs Hjellbrekke, Håkon Leiulfsrud, Emil A. Røyrvik, John Scott, Peter Sohlberg, Karin Widerberg and Richard Swedberg.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction   Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg 2 How Do You Establish the Research Object in Sociology?   Richard Swedberg 3 Historical Epistemology, Sociology, and Statistics   Johs Hjellbrekke 4 Constructing Social Structure   John Scott 5 Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global South   David Fasenfest and Raju J. Das 6 The Significance of Social Bonds   Göran Ahrne 7 Organisations as a Sociological Research Object  How Schools Reproduce Inequality   Raimund Hasse 8 Broken Promises and Lost Qualities  Constructing Management as a Research Object in Sociology and Anthropology   Emil André Røyrvik 9 On Thought Experiments in Sociology and the Power of Thinking   Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg 10 Constructing and Researching the Object in Time and Space   Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen 11 Academic Star Wars  Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith on Academic Work   Karin Widerberg 12 Living Theory  Reflections on Four Decades of Teaching Social Theory   Michael Burawoy 13 Postscript   Peter Sohlberg and Håkon Leiulfsrud Index

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Book SynopsisGeorg Lukács was one of the most important intellectuals and philosophers of the 20th century. His last great work was an systematic social ontology that was an attempt to ground an ethical and critical form of Marxism. This work has only now begun to attract the interest of critical theorists and philosophers intent on reconstructing a critical theory of society as well as a more sophisticated framework for Marxian philosophy. This collection of essays explores the concept of critical social ontology as it was outlined by Georg Lukács and the ways that his ideas can help us construct a more grounded and socially relevant form of social critique.Trade Review“The concluding essay by the editor, Michael J. Thompson, is lucid and persuasive in praising the late Lukács’ contribution and fidelity to Marx’s ontology”. Sean Sheehan, in Marx & Philosophy Review of books, 2020.Table of Contents Contributors  Introduction Part 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being  1 Ontology and Labor in the Lukács’ Late Thought  Antonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda  2 Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann’s to Lukács’Ontology  Endre Kiss  3 Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of Intentionality  Matthew J. Smetona Part 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács’ Social Ontology  4 György Lukács’ Ontological Interpretation of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value  Murillo van der Laan  5 The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács’ Normative Theory of History  Andreas Giesbert  6 Lukács’ Late Appropriation of Hegel’s Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological Positing  Michalis Skomvoulis Part 3: Lukács’ Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy  7 On the “Constitution of Human Society”: Lukács’ versus Searle’s Social Ontology  Claudius Vellay  8 Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social Ontology  Thomas Telios  9 Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological Critique  Mario Duayer  10 The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno Latour  Christoph Henning Part 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology  11 From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!  Michael Morris  12 Normativity and Totality: Lukács’ Contribution to a Critical Social Ontology  Titus Stahl  13 Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social Theory  Reha Kadakal  14 Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social Ontology  Michael J. Thompson  Index

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Book SynopsisPop culture emerged in the first decades of the twentieth century as a reaction to the restrictive social traditions of colonial America. It spread quickly and broadly throughout the bustling urban centers of the 1920s—an era when it formed a partnership with technology and the business world. This coalition gave pop culture its identity, allowing it to thrive and form alliances with artistic and literary movements. But pop culture may have run its course with the rise of meme culture. This publication revisits the social, psychic, and aesthetic roots of pop culture, suggesting that meme culture has fragmented its historical flow, thus threatening to bring about its demise.Table of ContentsMemes and the Future of Pop Culture  Marcel Danesi  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Origins  3 The Protestant Ethic  4 The Roaring Twenties  5 Theorizing Pop Culture  6 Technology and the Marketplace  7 Literary-Artistic Bricolage  8 Carnival, Archetype, and Mythology Theories Revisited  9 Sociobiology and the Theory of Memes  10 Meme Culture  11 The Simulacrum  12 Meme Culture versus Pop Culture  13 The “Communal Brain”  14 The Global Village  15 The “Corso” and “Ricorso” of History  16 The Tetrad  17 The Future  References

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Book SynopsisShopper’s Paradise: Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture deals with the cultural, social and economic impact of retail stores on American society. It has chapters on some of the most important retail genres, such as Internet stores (Amazon.com), department stores (Neiman Marcus), coffee shops (Starbucks), big-box stores (Walmart, Costco) and a number of other kinds of stores such as dollar stores, malls, and farmer’s markets.Table of ContentsShopper’s Paradise. Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture  Arthur Asa Berger Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Amazon.com  3 Department Stores  4 Shopping Malls  5 Supermarkets  6 Farmers Markets  7 Costco  8 Dollar Stores  9 Neiman Marcus (Formerly Neiman-Marcus)  10 CVS (Consumer Value Store) Pharmacies  11 Wal-Mart/Walmart  12 Starbucks  13 Consumer Cultures  14 A Consumer’s Odyssey: Everyday Life’s Routines and Its Many Stores  15 Coda  Acknowledgments  References  List of Figures

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Book SynopsisIn Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the role of migration in the reproduction of contemporary society. He demonstrates how immigration constitutes a political dilemma that embodies the ethnic and demographic transformation of advanced societies. En Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales propone un modelo teórico para el entendimiento de las migraciones en la reproducción de la sociedad contemporánea. En las sociedades avanzadas la inmigración establece un dilema político concerniente a la transformación étnica y demográfica de sus poblaciones.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 Migration and Reproduction: Basic Premises  1 Three Glances at the Reproduction Approach   1.1 Demography and Population Reproduction   1.2 Reproduction in the Thought of Pierre Bourdieu   1.3 Gunnar Myrdal and the Principle of Circular and Cumulative Causation   1.4 Migration and Reproduction: A Preliminary Synthesis  2 From the Social Reproduction of Migration to Migration as Reproduction of Society  3 Conclusion: Migration and Reproduction 2 International Migration in Neoclassical Economics: A Critical Perspective  1 Approaches of Neoclassical Economic Theory and of the New Home Economics  2 Limitations of Neo-classical Theory: Imperfections of the Market  3 Rational Choice: Theoretical or Axiomatic Principle?  4 Neoclassical Economics: An Ahistorical Theory 3 Migration and Development: Three Theses and a Corollary  1 Migration and Development: The Pitfalls of a Misleading Discourse   1.1 The Immigration Issue in Host Countries   1.2 Is Migration a New Development Paradigm for Origin Countries?  2 Migration and Development: a Critical Perspective  3 Conclusion: Three Theses and a Corollary on International Migration   3.1 Corollary: Towards a Global Model of Understanding Migration 4 Migration and Reproduction: Beyond the Critique of Methodological Nationalism  1 Globalization as a Critique of Methodological Nationalism  2 Transnational Communities and Transnationalism  3 Migration, Social Networks and Transnationalism  4 Migration and Reproduction 5 The Role of Migration in the Global System of Demographic Reproduction  1 Thesis  2 From Demographic Transition to a Global System of Reproduction  3 International Migration and Demographic Change in Sending and Receiving Societies   3.1 Aging Population and the End of Demographic Transition   3.2 The Second Demographic Transition   3.3 The Demographic Dividend: Dynamics of Population in Origin Countries  4 Demographic Change and Migration: Towards a Global Model of Population Reproduction  5 Migration and Demographic Change: The Contradictions of the Model  6 Conclusion: Dilemmas and Contradictions of a Model 6 Migration and the Reproduction of Capital  1 Thesis  2 From the Circular Flow of Income to the Reproduction of Capital  3 Labor Migration and the Reproduction of Capital   3.1 Deindustrialization and Tertiarization in the New Labor Matrix   3.2 Immigration and Labor Deficit  4 Transnationalism, Social Networks and Remittances: The Reproduction of the Labor Force  5 Conclusion 7 Migration and Social Reproduction  1 Thesis  2 Social Networks and Social Reproduction  3 Migration and Social Reproduction in Host Societies   3.1 Globalization and Employment Polarization   3.2 Racializing Social Inequality and Class Structure in the United States   3.3 Migration, Work and Social Reproduction in Advanced Societies  4Migration and Social Reproduction: Towards a Global and Comprehensive Vision 8 The Central Place of Migration in the Reproduction of Advanced Societies  1 Thesis  2 International Migrations: The Theoretical-methodological Debate Revisited  3 Migration and the Reproduction Approach  4 The Central Place of Migrations in Advanced Societies  5 The Contradictions of the Model: Demographic Replacement 9 Latinos in the USA: The New American Dilemma  1 Thesis  2 Demographic Change and Ethnic Replacement  3 The Racialization of Inequality and the New American Dilemma   3.1 Occupational Segregation and the Racializing of Social Inequality   3.2 Productivity, Wages and Economic Discrimination  4 Final Reflections: Latinos and the New American Dilemma References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is in honor of William J. Chambliss who has influenced and provided a foundation for new directions and approaches in sociology, criminology, critical criminology in particular, and the sociology of law. This is to name a few of the many inspirational and foundational ways he has changed the course and methods for generations to come, inspiring not only the editors and contributors of this volume. Each of the chapters detail various ways Bill’s work has impacted on our own perspectives and/or research including, but not limited to, the way we understand the value of non-traditional methods, law and power, the very definition of crime, organized crime, and unmasking the power structures and powerful that cause inequality, social ills and pains. Contributors are: Elizabeth A. Bradshaw, Meredith Brown, William J. Chambliss, Francis T. Cullen, Jeff Ferrell, David O. Friedrichs, Mark S. Hamm, Ronald C. Kramer, Teresa C. Kulig, Raymond Michalowski, Christopher J. Moloney, Ida Nafstad, Sarah Pedigo, Gary Potter, Isabel Schoultz.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Toward a Sociology of Organizational Criminal Conspiracies  William J. Chambliss and Christopher J. Moloney 2 Organized Crime and the Sociological Imagination  Gary Potter 3 Notes on the Art of Deception: the Crime Ethnography of William J. Chambliss  Mark S. Hamm and Jeff Ferrell 4 Kate’s Law: the Social Construction of Crime in the Trump Era  Teresa C. Kulig and Francis T. Cullen 5 Old Wine, New Bottles: Contextualizing Trump’s Regulatory Rollback  Raymond Michalowski and Meredith Brown 6 ‘Blood for Oil’: Analyzing America’s War for the Greater Middle East as a Climate Crime of Empire  Ronald C. Kramer 7 Green State Crimes and Toxic Prisons: Synthesizing Environmental Harms at the Intersection of the Military and Prison Industrial Complexes  Elizabeth A. Bradshaw 8 Make Our Enemy—Kill Our Enemy: the Creation of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: From Realpolitik to Biopolitics to Necropolitics  Sarah Pedigo and David O. Friedrichs 9 Whose Law? What Order? Struggles within Juridical Fields  Ida Nafstad and Isabel Schoultz Index

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Book SynopsisBetween the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals. In these they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia. Ethiopia in Theory examines the literature of this student movement, together with the movement’s afterlife in Ethiopian politics and society, in order to ask: what does it mean to write today about the appropriation and indigenisation of Marxist and mainstream social science ideas in an Ethiopian and African context; and, importantly, what does the archive of revolutionary thought in Africa teach us about the practice of critical theory more generally?Trade ReviewListen to Elleni Centime Zeleke discuss the book with Madina Thiam in this podcast by the New Books Network (2020) "Ethiopia in Theory deserves the widest readership. First for its recovery of the intellectual and political enterprise of the last three Ethiopian generations through a dazzling method at once archival, literary, and auto/ethnographic. Second for illuminating a dark space in Twentieth-century global history: how intellectuals outside Europe, or in diasporas, put Marxism and ‘Western’ social sciences to work. Historians of elsewhere in the Tricontinent will find a valuable lens in this portrait of the intellectual origins, climax and aftermaths of the Ethiopian Revolution. For it was not just in Ethiopia that the emancipatory promise of c. 1960 collapsed through its own contradictions and yet, like the anchor to a blues chord, stubbornly persists." - Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King’s College London, author of Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World. "Ethiopia in Theory is an ambitious, surprising book. Its focus is the Ethiopian student movement of the 1960s and 1970s in Addis Ababa and across the globe, and its relationship to the great upheavals of revolutionary Ethiopia. It gives us a highly original analysis of the ideas produced by this movement based on a close reading of its texts, but does much more than that too. It offers not just an analysis of the social science ideas of the students themselves and the ways in which they shaped and were shaped by Ethiopian history, but also of the categories used to study those ideas. This double move reflects a deep interest in understanding the politics of knowledge production in Ethiopia and Africa, and gives us a novel means of doing so. It is a move that is also rooted in Zeleke’s own life story, and is thus an act of self-recovery too. This crossing of disciplines, genres and viewpoints has produced an extraordinarily productive and engaging account of a momentous time." - Jocelyn Alexander, Professor of Commonwealth Studies, University of Oxford, author of The Unsettled Land: The Politics of Land and State-making in Zimbabwe, 1893-2003 "This superb book will transform all discussions concerning the production of knowledge. Ranging through the archives, moving across philosophy and critical theory, and traversing social history, Ethiopia in Theory frames a stunningly original account of the Ethiopian student movement of the 1960s and ‘70s as a site for the production of radical social science. Rather than the mere reception of revolutionary theory in an African context, Zeleke shows us the dynamics of its generation. There is truly nothing in the literature that comes close to the depth of this multi-leveled, interdisciplinary study. Zeleke’s outstanding book deserves the widest possible readership in social history, African studies, post-colonial analysis, and Marxist and critical theory in general." - David McNally, Cullen Distinguished Professor of History, University of Houston, author of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism "Political research on the period from roughly 1966 to the mid-1970s often fail to articulate the global dimensions of student movements in African countries. This much-overdue study of the Ethiopian example offers, with nuance, rich historical evidence, and wonderfully clear prose, the revolutionary situation in which, as its author Elleni Centime Zeleke aptly puts it, the bandit is transformed into “a guerilla or leader.” In response to those who cry “illiberalism,” this work reveals an alignment with other movements of what is at times called “the black radical tradition” through which the response, echoed with explanatory force and defiance through the corridors of history, is that those at the bottom cannot and should not wait. As such, this extraordinary book also illuminates the complexity, strengths, and shortcomings of revolutionary forms of knowledge and praxis in Afro-modernity." - Lewis R. Gordon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, author of Existentia Africana and What Fanon Said "An original and pathbreaking study of the ideology and the intellectual traditions that informed the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. Ethiopia in Theory provides sophisticated analysis of the ideas of the Ethiopian student movement of the 1960s and the way in which these ideas have continued to shape state policies in contemporary Ethiopia. This meticulously researched book offers a unique perspective for the study of revolutions and the socialist experience in Africa as well as the process of local knowledge production. It will undoubtedly appeal to a wide range of scholars beyond the field of African studies." - Ahmad Sikainga, Professor of African History, Ohio State University, author of City of Steel and Fire: A social History of Atbara, Sudan’s Railway Town, 1906-1984 “In Ethiopia in Theory, Elleni Centime Zeleke imaginatively transgresses disciplinary boundaries to offer a rendering of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution that is part memoir, part historical ethnography, part political theory. […] Zeleke’s rich engagement with the Ethiopian student movement serves as a critical reminder of the plurality of black geographies of struggle, and it is precisely this plurality that is generative of new memories, and new imaginations of the future.” - Samar Al-Bulushi, University of California, Irvine, in: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (2020) “… in attuning us to the constitution of social science as an ideological and political battlefield, Zeleke offers a model of how we might map the global Third World efforts to indigenize social theory in service of social transformation.” - Adom Getachew, University of Chicago, in: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (2020) “… the book offers a reading of what it means to be human in a world that has been made by the social sciences. […] In order to appreciate the political imperative, epistemic elaboration, and the social ramifications of this social science project, one must be willing to step outside of it, to make an account of it and to tell its story. This, in effect, is what Zeleke does with great care, rigor, and urgency.” - Wendell Marsh, Rutgers University-Newark, in: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (2020) “Elleni’s notable contribution with this book is in showing the lasting legacy of the student movement”. - Hewan Semon Marye, in: Aethiopica 24, 2021Table of ContentsForeword  Donald L. Donham Acknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Citations Introduction  1 Revolutionary Ethiopia  2 Background to the Project  3 Fieldwork  4 Structure of the Book Part 1 Knowledge Production and Social Change in Ethiopia 1 The Children of the Revolution: Toward an Alternative Method  1 I Don’t Have Tizita 2 Social Science Is a Battlefield: Rethinking the Historiography of the Ethiopian Revolution  1 Early Histories of the Revolution and the International Left  2 Historiography of the Liberated Zones  3 Historical Contiguity  4 The Student Movement Grows Up 3 Challenge: Social Science in the Literature of the Ethiopian Student Movement  1 Challenge 1965–9: The Moment of Departure  2 Our Collective Backwardness  3 The Method of the Idea  4 The Making of a Programme  5 The Moment of Manoeuvre: Debates on the National Question  6 Challenge in the World  7 Conclusion 4 When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict: Rethinking the 2005 Elections in Ethiopia  1 The 2005 Federal Elections  2 Discussion 5 Passive Revolution: Living in the Aftermath of the 2005 Elections Part 2 Theory as Memoir 6 The Problem of the Social Sciences in Africa  1 The Problem of the Social Sciences in Africa  2 Rethinking Transitions to Capitalism  3 Knowledge Production in Africa  4 Anthropological Nature and the Possibility of Critique  5 Critical-Practical Thought  6 The Human as Subject and Object  7 A Theory of Human Development  8 Coda Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School offers a comprehensive introduction to the techniques used by the early Frankfurt School to study and combat authoritarianism and authoritarian populism. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the writings of the early Frankfurt School, at the same time as authoritarian populist movements are resurging in Europe and the Americas. This volume shows why and how Frankfurt School methodologies can and should be used to address the rise of authoritarianism today. Critical theory scholars are assembled from a variety of disciplines to discuss Frankfurt School approaches to dialectical philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, human subjects research, discourse analysis and media studies. Contributors include: Robert J. Antonio, Stefanie Baumann, Christopher Craig Brittain, Dustin J. Byrd, Mariana Caldas Pinto Ferreira, Panayota Gounari, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Imaculada Kangussu, Douglas Kellner, Dan Krier, Lauren Langman, Claudia Leeb, Gregory Joseph Menillo, Jeremiah Morelock, Felipe Ziotti Narita, Michael R. Ott, Charles Reitz, Avery Schatz, Rudolf J. Siebert, William M. Sipling, David Norman Smith, Daniel Sullivan, and AK Thompson.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Frankfurt School Methodologies  Jeremiah Morelock and Daniel Sullivan PART 1 Dialectics 1 When History Fails Us: Immanent Critique of Capitalism to the New Right and Beyond   Robert J. Antonio 2 A Dialectical Constellation of Authoritarian Populism in the United States and Brazil   Jeremiah Morelock and Felipe Ziotti Narita 3 Capital Fetishism and the Authoritarian Personality: Critical Theory in the Weimar Years   David Norman Smith 4 Mythology, Enlightenment, and Dialectic: Determinate Negation   Rudolf J. Siebert, Michael R. Ott, and Dustin J. Byrd PART 2 Psychoanalysis 5 The Dialectic of Unreason: Authoritarianism and the Irrational   Lauren Langman and Avery Schatz 6 Adorno and Freud Meet Kazuo Ishiguro: The Rise of the Far- Right from a Psychoanalytic Critical Theory Perspective   Claudia Leeb 7 Marcuse and the Symbolic Roles of the Father: Someone to Watch over Me   Imaculada Kangussu 8 “Variation within a Single Paradigm”: The Latent Authoritarian Dynamics of the Culture Industry   Gregory Joseph Menillo 9 What Would Jesus Do? Christianity as Wish Image and Historical Bloc   AK Thompson PART 3 Human Subjects 10 Mobilization of Bias Today: The Renewed Use of Established Techniques; A Reconsideration of Two Studies on Prejudice from the Institute for Social Research   Peter-Erwin Jansen 11 From ‘False’ to ‘Reified’ Consciousness: Tracing the isr’s Critical Research on Authoritarianism   Daniel Sullivan 12 Franz Neumann’s Behemoth and Trumpism: Comprehending the Beast of Bad Government   Dan Krier 13 Donald Trump and the Stigmata of Democracy: Adorno and the Consolidation of a Religious Racket   Christopher Craig Brittain PART 4 Media Discourse 14 Siegfried Kracauer and the Interpretation of Films   Jeremiah Morelock 15 How to Mediate Reality: Thinking Documentary Film with Adorno and Horkheimer   Stefanie Baumann 16 One-dimensional Social Media: The Discourse of Authoritarianism and the Authoritarianism of Discourse   Panayota Gounari 17 Applying and Extrapolating Prophets of Deceit: Heuristics of ‘Agitator’ Identification through Löwenthal and Guterman’s Analysis   William M. Sipling 18 Dialectical Images and Contemporary Times: Thinking Critically about Authoritarian Populism   Mariana Caldas Pinto Ferreira  Afterword   Douglas Kellner Index

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Book SynopsisIn Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory: Turning Right to Go Left, the authors argue that Baudrillard has been underappreciated in philosophical and theoretical work in education. They introduce him here as an important figure in radical thought who has something to add to theoretical lines of inquiry in education. The book does not offer an introduction to Baudrillard. Rather, his corpus is mined in order to describe how it functions as a counter to the code of education, rational thought, critical reason, etc. In effect, they establish that Baudrillard advocates for a counter-path to thinking that can shake us out of our ready-made thoughts and realize the radical potential for change.Table of ContentsForeword  Mike Gane List of Figures Introduction: The Seduction of Baudrillard  1 Baudrillard’s Teaching: How I Learned to Avoid the Trap of the Dialectic  2 9/11 Did Not Take Place: Or How I Learned to Love Baudrillard 1 Relevance for Educational Thinking  1 What Does Baudrillard Say about Thinking? Paradox in Baudrillard as Productive Spaces for Learning  2 Imagining ‘Learning’ from Baudrillard  3 The Ecstasy of Education  4 Toward an Education for Counter-Intuition 2 The End of Traditional Critique in Education  1 The State of Critique in Education  2 The Space for Thinking about Baudrillard  3 Baudrillard and Form  4 The Orders of Simulacra  5 The Fourth Order and Radical Thought  6 Radical Thought in Practice: Baudrillard’s Theory-Fiction  7 Conclusion 3 From Representation to Simulation  1 Introduction: The Reality We Have ‘Now’ …  2 From Representation to a Hyperspace without Atmosphere  3 The Entangled Orders of Simulacra: Disneyland, Disneyworld, Disneyverse*  4 The Precession of Simulation: The Decay/Delay/Displacement of Reality  5 The Case of Salvator Mundi and atomic printed Mona Lisa  6 The Dark Art of Deepfakes  7 Algorithmic Life and Fractal Futures 4 Fatal Theory and Education  1 Ars Moriendi for Education  2 Amor Fati: Embracing Fatal Theory in Education  3 Fatal Theory or Fatal Strategy: The Baudrillard Experience  4 Fatal Strategies for Education: Learning the Art of Dying, Loving Fate, and Making Friends with Chaos Index

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Book SynopsisIn Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory: Turning Right to Go Left, the authors argue that Baudrillard has been underappreciated in philosophical and theoretical work in education. They introduce him here as an important figure in radical thought who has something to add to theoretical lines of inquiry in education. The book does not offer an introduction to Baudrillard. Rather, his corpus is mined in order to describe how it functions as a counter to the code of education, rational thought, critical reason, etc. In effect, they establish that Baudrillard advocates for a counter-path to thinking that can shake us out of our ready-made thoughts and realize the radical potential for change.Table of ContentsForeword  Mike Gane List of Figures Introduction: The Seduction of Baudrillard  1 Baudrillard’s Teaching: How I Learned to Avoid the Trap of the Dialectic  2 9/11 Did Not Take Place: Or How I Learned to Love Baudrillard 1 Relevance for Educational Thinking  1 What Does Baudrillard Say about Thinking? Paradox in Baudrillard as Productive Spaces for Learning  2 Imagining ‘Learning’ from Baudrillard  3 The Ecstasy of Education  4 Toward an Education for Counter-Intuition 2 The End of Traditional Critique in Education  1 The State of Critique in Education  2 The Space for Thinking about Baudrillard  3 Baudrillard and Form  4 The Orders of Simulacra  5 The Fourth Order and Radical Thought  6 Radical Thought in Practice: Baudrillard’s Theory-Fiction  7 Conclusion 3 From Representation to Simulation  1 Introduction: The Reality We Have ‘Now’ …  2 From Representation to a Hyperspace without Atmosphere  3 The Entangled Orders of Simulacra: Disneyland, Disneyworld, Disneyverse*  4 The Precession of Simulation: The Decay/Delay/Displacement of Reality  5 The Case of Salvator Mundi and atomic printed Mona Lisa  6 The Dark Art of Deepfakes  7 Algorithmic Life and Fractal Futures 4 Fatal Theory and Education  1 Ars Moriendi for Education  2 Amor Fati: Embracing Fatal Theory in Education  3 Fatal Theory or Fatal Strategy: The Baudrillard Experience  4 Fatal Strategies for Education: Learning the Art of Dying, Loving Fate, and Making Friends with Chaos Index

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Book SynopsisIn the immense literature on globalization, the work of Roland Robertson stands out. In particular, his insistence that globalization manifests itself primarily as glocalization, the simultaneity of the global and the local, of homogenization and heterogenization continues to influence how a wide variety of observers understand the process, including those who contest it. In honour of Robertson’s lifetime contributions, this volume brings together a set of essays that demonstrate the cogency of his approach, point out directions in which it can be further developed, and illustrate the insight it can provide in topics as varied as religion, football, wine, morality, and UFOs. Contributors include: Peter Beyer, John Boli, Didem Buhari Gulmez, Rebecca Catto, Richard Giulianotti, Ulf Hannerz, David Inglis, Paul James, Habibul Haque Khondker, Anne Sophie Krossa, Frank Lechner, Kristian Naglo, John H. Simpson, Manfred B. Steger, and George M. Thomas.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. INTRODUCTION - GLOBALIZATION: A LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEOLOGISM Peter Beyer 2. THE GLOBAL-GLOCAL NEXUS IN WORLD SOCIETY Didem Buhari Gulmez 3. ANYWHERES, SOMEWHERES AND THE FACES OF COSMOPOLITANISM Ulf Hannerz 4. THE CHALLENGES OF PERIODIZING GLOBALIZATION Manfred B. Steger 5. GLOBALIZATION AND THE GREAT UNSETTLING Paul James 6. RELATIVIZING EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION, IMAGES OF THE GLOBAL FIELD, AND RELIGIOUS RESPONSES George M. Thomas 7. THE CHANGING WORLD OF THEORY Frank J. Lechner 8. GLOCAL POWER AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION: HOW ROBERTSON’S THEORY OF GLOBALIZATION HELPS US TO SEE BEYOND SECULARIZATION Rebecca Catto 9. A SOCIOLOGY OF BELIEF FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE John H. Simpson 10. GLOBALITY AND THE PROBLEM OF GLOBAL MORALITY Habibul Haque Khondker 11. STYLING GLOCALIZATION: GLOBAL FOOTBALL AND THE RELATIVE AUTONOMY OF PLAYING STYLES Richard Giulianotti 12. PERCEPTIONS OF INTEGRATION IN THE GLOCAL WORLD OF FOOTBALL Annie Sophia Krossa and Kristian Naglo 13. ON WINE, GLOBALIZATION, AND GLOCALIZATION: LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENTS AND PRESENT-DAY CONTROVERSIES David Inglis 14. SMALL PLANET IN THE VASTNESS OF SPACE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE PROLIFERATION OF UFOS, ALIENS, AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL THREATS TO HUMANITY John Boli BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROLAND ROBERTSON’S ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Index

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Book SynopsisChoice Award 2022: Outstanding Academic Title Marx Matters is an examination of how Marx remains more relevant than ever in dealing with contemporary crises. This volume explores how technical dimensions of a Marxian analytic frame remains relevant to our understanding of inequality, of exploitation and oppression, and of financialization in the age of global capitalism. Contributors track Marx in promoting emancipatory practices in Latin America, tackle how Marx informs issues of race and gender, explore current social movements and the populist turn, and demonstrate how Marx can guide strategies to deal with the existential environmental crises of the day. Marx matters because Marx still provides the best analysis of capitalism as a system, and his ideas still point to how society can organize for a better world. Contributors are: Jose Bell Lara, Ashley J. Bohrer, Tom Brass, Rose M. Brewer, William K. Carroll, Penelope Ciancanelli, Raju J. Das, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, David Fasenfest, Ben Fine, Lauren Langman, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Vishwas Satgar, and William K. Tabb.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 The Once and Future Marx   David Fasenfest 2 What Marx Anticipated That Is, or Should Be, Central to Political Economy Today   William K. Tabb part 1 Marx’s Political Economy for the Present 3 From Marxist Political Economy to Financialization or Is It the Other Way About?   Ben Fine 4 Value, Capital and Exploitation in Marx   Alfredo Saad-Filho 5 Social Oppression, Class Relation, and Capitalist Accumulation   Raju J. Das 6 The Power of Money   Penelope Ciancanelli 7 Great Replacement and/as the Industrial Reserve Populism or Marxism?   Tom Brass part 2 Marx and a Changing Society 8 Emancipatory Thought in Latin America The Enduring Legacy of Carlos Marx   Ricardo A. Dello Buono and José Bell Lara 9 Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-socialism   Vishwas Satgar 10 Marx Matters, in Theory and Practice Reflections from the Corporate Mapping Project   William K. Carroll 11 The Capitalist Racial State and Black Lives in Struggle   Rose M. Brewer 12 Marxism and Intersectionality A Critical Historiography   Ashley J. Bohrer 13 Marxism, Peasants, and the Cultural Turn The Myth of a ‘Nice’ Populism   Tom Brass 14 Marx on Social Movements Left and Right   Lauren Langman Index

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Book SynopsisIn the immense literature on globalization, the work of Roland Robertson stands out. In particular, his insistence that globalization manifests itself primarily as glocalization, the simultaneity of the global and the local, of homogenization and heterogenization continues to influence how a wide variety of observers understand the process, including those who contest it. In honour of Robertson’s lifetime contributions, this volume brings together a set of essays that demonstrate the cogency of his approach, point out directions in which it can be further developed, and illustrate the insight it can provide in topics as varied as religion, football, wine, morality, and UFOs. Contributors include: Peter Beyer, John Boli, Didem Buhari Gulmez, Rebecca Catto, Richard Giulianotti, Ulf Hannerz, David Inglis, Paul James, Habibul Haque Khondker, Anne Sophie Krossa, Frank Lechner, Kristian Naglo, John H. Simpson, Manfred B. Steger, and George M. Thomas.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. INTRODUCTION - GLOBALIZATION: A LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEOLOGISM Peter Beyer 2. THE GLOBAL-GLOCAL NEXUS IN WORLD SOCIETY Didem Buhari Gulmez 3. ANYWHERES, SOMEWHERES AND THE FACES OF COSMOPOLITANISM Ulf Hannerz 4. THE CHALLENGES OF PERIODIZING GLOBALIZATION Manfred B. Steger 5. GLOBALIZATION AND THE GREAT UNSETTLING Paul James 6. RELATIVIZING EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION, IMAGES OF THE GLOBAL FIELD, AND RELIGIOUS RESPONSES George M. Thomas 7. THE CHANGING WORLD OF THEORY Frank J. Lechner 8. GLOCAL POWER AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION: HOW ROBERTSON’S THEORY OF GLOBALIZATION HELPS US TO SEE BEYOND SECULARIZATION Rebecca Catto 9. A SOCIOLOGY OF BELIEF FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE John H. Simpson 10. GLOBALITY AND THE PROBLEM OF GLOBAL MORALITY Habibul Haque Khondker 11. STYLING GLOCALIZATION: GLOBAL FOOTBALL AND THE RELATIVE AUTONOMY OF PLAYING STYLES Richard Giulianotti 12. PERCEPTIONS OF INTEGRATION IN THE GLOCAL WORLD OF FOOTBALL Annie Sophia Krossa and Kristian Naglo 13. ON WINE, GLOBALIZATION, AND GLOCALIZATION: LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENTS AND PRESENT-DAY CONTROVERSIES David Inglis 14. SMALL PLANET IN THE VASTNESS OF SPACE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE PROLIFERATION OF UFOS, ALIENS, AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL THREATS TO HUMANITY John Boli BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROLAND ROBERTSON’S ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be human? We invite the reader to discuss this most fundamental issue in philosophy and to do so in an intercultural framework. The question of the human was the starting point for a legendary discussion between two German philosophers who met in Davos in 1929. We return to this historical event and re-imagine the debate between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer from a global perspective. Generating twenty papers from elaborate discussions, our authors contribute to the thought experiment by inviting the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō from Kyoto and other Japanese thinkers into the debate to overcome the challenge of Eurocentrism inherent to these historic days in Davos.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Introduction  Ralf Müller Part 1 Recontextualizing the Davos Debate 1 Revisiting the Debate between Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: Imagination, Finiteness, and Morals  Michel Dalissier 2 The Davos Debate, Pure Philosophy and Normativity: Thinking from the Perspective of the History of Philosophy  Esther Oluffa Pedersen 3 Humans and Other Animals: The Forgotten Other Beyond Davos and Kyoto  John C. Maraldo 4 Anthropology as an Intercultural Philosophy of Culture  Tobias Endres 5 Heidegger and Cassirer on Schematism: Reflections on an Intercultural Philosophy  Domenico Schneider Part 2 Nishida Joining the Davos Debate 6 Absolute Self-Contradictory Human Existence: Nishida in Davos  Francesca Greco 7 Cassirer and Nishida: Mathematical Crosscurrents in Their Philosophical Paths  Rossella Lupacchini 8 Lask, Heidegger, and Nishida: From Meaning as Object to Horizon and Place  John W.M. Krummel 9 From Kyoto and Hong Kong to Davos: Nishida Kitaro and Mou Zongsan’s possible contributions to the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate  Tak-Lap Yeung 10 From the Problem of Meaning via Basic Phenomena to the Question of Philosophy after Metaphysics: Cassirer, Heidegger, and Nishida  Ingmar Meland 11 The Self-Aware Individual and the Kyoto School’s Quest for a Philosophical Anthropology  Dennis Stromback Part 3 German-Japanese Ramifications of the Davos Debate 12 The Davos Debate and Japanese Philosophy: Welt-Schema and Einbildungskraft in Tanabe and Miki  Tatsuya Higaki 13 From Despair to Authentic Existence: Kierkegaard’s Anthropology of Despair in the Light of Nishitani’s Thought  Sebastian Hüsch 14 Cassirer, Heidegger, and Miki: The Logic of the Dual Transcendence of the Imagination  Steve Lofts 15 Now, Ever or After: Contrasting the Pure Lands of D.T. Suzuki and Tanabe Hajime  Rossa Ó Muireartaigh 16 On Homo Faber: Nishida and Miki  Takushi Odagiri 17 Anti-Cartesianism East and West: Watsuji and Heidegger on the Possibility of Significant Dealing with Entities  Hans Peter Liederbach 18 Miki and the Myth of Humanism  Fernando Wirtz 19 Hineingehalten in das Nichts: Die Metaphysik und das Andere des Seins  Emanuel Seitz Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this edited collection is to address the complex realities and values expressed through the research process. This critically reflexive piece aims to bring forth ethical dilemmas that continue to pervade research process, by unearthing how left out marginalized realties and value in research also leads communities to disappear physically and psychically.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Dawn Onishenko, Nob Doran, Rose Ann Torres and Dionisio Nyaga Part 1 Critical Review of Qualitative Research Approaches 1 Making Research Black and Strange Why History Matters in the Current Disappearing World   Dionisio Nyaga 2 Grounded Theory: Effects of covid-19 on Homeless Youth Methodological Reflections   Dionisio Nyaga, Dawn Onishenko and Rose Ann Torres 3 Reflexivity, Recursion and Re-evaluation Some Reflections On ‘Institutional Ethnography’   Nob Doran Part 2 Overview of Critical Reflexive Research Methodologies 4 Resisting through Research Developing a Qualitative “Mixed Methods” Approach in Research with Sex Workers   Laura Winters 5 Beyond Codified Logics of Ethics Jungle and the Ethics of Non-violence   Dionisio Nyaga 6 Africa beyond Africa Afro-pessimism as an Ethical Demand   Waywaya Nyaga and Dionisio Nyaga 7 Markets Logics in Research Process and the Denigration of Black Bodies   Dionisio Nyaga Part 3 Critical Reflexive Research Methods 8 Teaching to the Tensions Pushing the Boundaries of Qualitative Social Work Research   Susan Preston, Susan Silver and Purnima George 9 Qualitative Research as Resistance The Use of Vignettes to Support Situated Knowledge and the Deconstruction of Colonial Policies   Laura Wyper 10 Remembering in Research Doing Research in Asian Communities   Rose Ann Torres 11 Application of Research to Africa’s Peace and Security Conundrum The Ethical and Moral Divide between the Ideal and the Real   Michael Sitawa Part 4 Reflexivity and Ethics 12 Ethics of Doing Research in the Indigenous Community   Rose Ann Torres 13 A Reflexive Gaze on Qualitative Policy Research Deconstructing Traditional Policy Research with the Interface of Youth-Voice and Arts-Based Focus Groups   Dawn Onishenko and Julie Erbland 14 A Co-constructed Critical Autoethnographical Conversation with Social Work Students Regarding Reflexive Research Engagement   Marco Giuliani, Michelle Brochu, Albina Magomedova, Michelle Boehm and Dawn Onishenko 15 Arendtian Phenomenology of Politics   Lawrence Ofunja Kangei Index

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