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Book SynopsisUnder what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? This study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen's capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people's well-being, rather than technology, at the centre of the study.

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Book SynopsisThe 2015 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.

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Book SynopsisGang-related violence has forced thousands of Hondurans to flee their country, leaving behind everything as refugees and undocumented migrants abroad. To uncover how this happened, Jon Carter looks back to the mid-2000s, when neighborhood gangs were scrambling to survive state violence and mass incarceration, locating there a critique of neoliberal globalization and state corruption that foreshadows Honduras's current crises. Carter begins with the story of a thirteen-year-old gang member accused in the murder of an undercover DEA agent, asking how the nation's seductive criminal underworld has transformed the lives of young people. He then widens the lens to describe a history of imperialism and corruption that shaped this underworldfrom Cold War counterinsurgency to the War on Drugs to the near-impunity of white-collar crimeas he follows local gangs who embrace new trades in the illicit economy. Carter describes the gangs' transformation from neighborhood groups to sprawling criminTrade Review[An] ethnography noir of the drug economy in Honduras...Carter introduces us to dizzying conspiracies and a lurid cast of characters that make the Hollywood treatment of the subject matter, like Netflix’s Narcos, seem tame...Readers who approach this book with an interest in understanding the cultural forms and aesthetics surrounding gang life in Central America will certainly learn a great deal. Others will come to this book with more of an interest in the complex vectors of the drugs and arms underworld, and they will be rewarded by an alternative political mapping of this world. * American Ethnologist *Gothic Sovereignty offers a nuanced anthropological analysis of pervasive gang violence in Honduras, which transcends narrow sociological approaches to organized crime and state corruption in Central America...Gothic Sovereignty will appeal to students of the anthropology of crime, aesthetics, and Latin American political history...Recommended. * CHOICE *[Gothic Sovereignty] builds on a critical framework centered on the writing of Walter Benjamin, offering a nuanced critic’s reading of the experience of gang activity in that country. Carter presents a deep analysis of various aspects of gang activity...These are important interventions in the debate on gangs in Latin America. Acknowledging the critical aesthetics of sovereignty in Honduras and how gangs reflect a challenge to that is an insightful contribution to understanding the implications of gang activity for state power and the ways that violence and governance are practiced that goes beyond much of the existing scholarship. * Latin American Politics and Society *Gothic Sovereignty is a fascinating read about street gangs and the state in Honduras...Carter is to be lauded for completing an important study that was difficult to finish...Carter’s study warrants analysis by both specialists and the public...If you are interested in political and legal anthropology or the study of organised crime in Central America, I highly recommend [Gothic Sovereignty]. * Anthropological Forum *What is most remarkable about this book, however, is how little violence it actually holds. Carter does an extraordinary job of writing about violent acts and violent actors without reproducing that violence . . . Gothic Sovereignty is an exemplary anthropology, as it is at once method, theory, argument, narrative, positioned reflexivity, and a bit of memoir. The text is theoretically rich, expecting a sophisticated facility with social theory from the reader. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of Contents Preface A Note on Translations and Anonymization Introduction Part I. Angels Chapter 1. Flash Chapter 2. Baroque Chapter 3. Allegory Chapter 4. Image Chapter 5. Danger Part II. Devils Chapter 6. Underworld Chapter 7. Dragons Chapter 8. Crime Chapter 9. Storm Chapter 10. Rubbish Chapter 11. Evil Chapter 12. Corruption Chapter 13. Lumpen Part III: Justice Chapter 14. Community Chapter 15. Sovereignty Chapter 16. Apocalypse Chapter 17. Trust Chapter 18. Futures Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 American Society of Criminology''s Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book AwardAn examination of the neoliberal politics of incarceration The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation for and then participating in the conservative tough on crime movement that is largely credited with the rise of the prison state. But what of those politicians and activists on the Left who reject punitive politics in favor of rehabilitation and a stronger welfare state? Can progressive policies such as these, with their benevolent intentions, nevertheless contribute to the expansion of mass incarceration?In Progressive Punishment, Judah Schept offers an ethnographic examination into the politics of incarceration in Bloomington, Indiana in order to consider the ways that liberal discourses Trade ReviewProgressive Punishment pushes relentlessly and appropriately against the & common sense understandings of liberal reform that simply exacerbate mass incarceration. -- Michelle Brown,author of The Culture of PunishmentSchepts stunningly original analysis shows how difficult it will be to escape the carceral state we have built over the past four decades. A breakthrough in punishment and society research. -- Jonathan Simon,author of Mass Incarceration on TrialThis is a significant contribution that crosses disciplinary boundaries. * Choice Connect *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 American Society of Criminology''s Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book AwardAn examination of the neoliberal politics of incarceration The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation for and then participating in the conservative tough on crime movement that is largely credited with the rise of the prison state. But what of those politicians and activists on the Left who reject punitive politics in favor of rehabilitation and a stronger welfare state? Can progressive policies such as these, with their benevolent intentions, nevertheless contribute to the expansion of mass incarceration?In Progressive Punishment, Judah Schept offers an ethnographic examination into the politics of incarceration in Bloomington, Indiana in order to consider the ways that liberal discourses Trade ReviewProgressive Punishment pushes relentlessly and appropriately against the & common sense understandings of liberal reform that simply exacerbate mass incarceration. -- Michelle Brown,author of The Culture of PunishmentSchepts stunningly original analysis shows how difficult it will be to escape the carceral state we have built over the past four decades. A breakthrough in punishment and society research. -- Jonathan Simon,author of Mass Incarceration on TrialThis is a significant contribution that crosses disciplinary boundaries. * Choice Connect *

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Book SynopsisExplores questions of masculinity, privilege, and identity to explain why some men become feminists while others become men's rights activistsIn the evolving landscape of gender activism in the United States, it is intriguing that four-in-ten American men now identify as feminists. Despite this seemingly positive shift, gender inequality remains deeply rooted in the US. Good Guys, Bad Guys delves into this paradox, unraveling the complexities of men's feminist allyship and its limitations in propelling genuine progress.Emily K. Carian masterfully dissects the narratives of two distinct groups of gender activists: feminist men and men who belong to the men''s rights movement, which opposes feminism. By engaging directly with the men themselves, Carian constructs a compelling analysis of their journeys into these contrasting social movements.Surprisingly, Carian finds that both feminist men and men's rights activists share a common motivation for their engagem

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Book SynopsisReveals the dark underside of environmental privilegeTrade ReviewThe authors...make a convincing and highly disturbing case about how some of the nation's most prominent promoters of sustainability depend on the labor of immigrants to enjoy privileged lives amidst a lovely environment. * In These Times *Documents, observation, and interview material over a number of years combine to give a full picture of the situation...the book's rich background of Aspen and the whole state's history is nicely provided, and the interesting flow of history and people's everday lives make Slums of Aspen very accessible. * American Journal of Sociology *Two barrels of leftist buckshot, aimed at America's ruling class. -- Ted Conover,author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing and Whiteout: Lost in AspenAs Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Naguib Pellow make clear, we cant tackle todays environmental problems without simultaneously solving social ones. The Slums of Aspen is a must read for all of us who want not just a green and healthy economy, but also a fair and just one. -- Annie Leonard,Author and Host, The Story of StuffAs the limits to growth discourse gains currency, Park and Pellows groundbreaking book is a must-read. Tracing the nativism that has bedeviled the environmental movement for decades, they tell the fascinating story of eco-conscious, upscale Aspen, which was gripped by anti-immigrant fervor in the name of 'saving the planet.' A great addition for courses on environment, race, class, social activism and contemporary problems. -- Juliet Schor,Boston College, and author of The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't NeedIts the perfect text to look at the intersection between social and environmental issues. -- Marci Krivonen * Aspen Public Radio *A pair of sociologists, in their new book, paint a damning picture of the stark inequalities between local immigrant laborers and Aspen vacationers and the wealthy homeowners they serve. -- Andrew Travers * Aspen Daily News *Park and Pellow offer a blistering critique of environmental privilege and immigrant discrimination within the Rocky Mountains' elite playground of Aspen, Colorado...their argument effectively extends well beyond Aspen's ski slopes and elite shopping streets. -- M.M. Gunter Jr. * Choice *The Slums of Aspentouches a wide variety of important topics both inside and outside the subdiscipline of environmental sociology. It takes long-lasting debates about population growth and examines them anew. It should be of interest to scholars in social movements, race, labor studies, political sociology, leisure studies, to name a few. Its main strength is that it engages so many different, and new areas, of environmental justice, and most importantly, provides a big step forward toward understanding the causes and consequences of environmental privilege, as well as the struggles by some to oppose its racially motivated 'green' politics. -- Justin Farrell * Mobilization *A brilliant, darkly funny expose of Aspen, the ruling classes' green utopia, and the invisible, scorned immigrant labor that makes it all possible. -- Mike Davis,author of Magical Urbanism and No One is Illegal[Park and Pellow] provide an impactful account of a wealthy Colorado community's attempt to limit the number of immigrants in their neighborhoods and their reasoning for doing so: environmental protection. * The National Memo *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Environmental Privilege in the Rocky Mountains 1 The Logic of Aspen 2 The Ultimate Elite Retreat 3 Living in Someone Else's Paradise 4 Nativism and the Environmental Movement 5 Advocacy and Social Justice Workers Conclusion: Dreams of Privilege/Visions of Justice Notes on Research Methods Notes References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisImmigration, Emigration and Migration consists of essays written by distinguished scholars across the fields of law, political science, and philosophy that examine questions of travel and migration across national borders. Questions of immigration and border enforcement practices are particularly salient in contemporary public discourse, and examinations of policy and practice bring forth new philosophical quandaries. Why the common assumption that each country has the right to control its own borders? How are laws that restrict or regulate migration created and justified? Why has the criminalization of migration increased? How can migration be better considered through the point of view of the migrants themselves? What are the differences in international and national institutional migratory policy? The volume explores questions of border control and enforcement, criminalization of borders, and how to address current debates and changes in regards to migration an

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Book SynopsisAnswers the calls of grassroots communities pressing for integration and increased education funding with a complete rethinking of school disciplineIn the era of zero tolerance, we are flooded with stories about schools issuing draconian punishments for relatively innocent behavior. One student was suspended for chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun. Another was expelled for cursing on social media from home. Suspension and expulsion rates have doubled over the past three decades as zero tolerance policies have become the normal response to a host of minor infractions that extend well beyond just drugs and weapons. Students from all demographic groups have suffered, but minority and special needs students have suffered the most. On average, middle and high schools suspend one out of four African American students at least once a year. The effects of these policies are devastating. Just one suspension in the ninth grade doubles the likelihood that a student wiTrade ReviewBlack convincingly explains how the nations inflexible, exclusionary and counterproductive approach to school discipline has swung far out of balance. This extraordinarily important book carefully outlines the legal and policy thinking that should serve as a cornerstone for the lawyers, policymakers and judges who must re-balance this destructive system. -- Kevin Welner, co-editor,Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give All Children an Even ChanceIn Ending Zero Tolerance, Professor Derek Black sheds light on how both law and policy are inviting schools to harshly punish students in ways that greatly harm the disciplined student, his or her peers, academic outcomes and our national commitment to equal educational opportunity. He also proposes insightful and attainable legal reforms that could end this crisis. Ending Zero Tolerance is a must-read for all who are committed to fair discipline policies. -- Kimberly Jenkins Robinson,Professor, University of Richmond School of LawZero-tolerance policies fuel the school-to-prison pipeline and disproportionately deny educational opportunities to already disadvantaged student populations. In this volume, Derek Black not only describes the problem but proposes a solutionintervention by state and federal courts. In an era when many are losing faith in courts to protect students, Black makes a persuasive case that courts can and should play a productive role in safeguarding the basic rights of students. This book is a cogent, comprehensive, and creative resource for all those who seek to dismantle one of the most pervasive contributors to educational inequality in this country. -- James E. Ryan,Charles William Eliot Professor, Harvard Graduate School of EducationDerek Black has written a magnificent book that shows how the current approach to disciplining children in schools undermines education, discriminates against children of color, and violates the most basic notions of due process. He makes a compelling case that courts must be involved in reforming school discipline. This book is must reading for all involved in education and all who care about the American educational system. -- Erwin Chemerinsky,Dean, University of California, Irvine School of LawNow is the time to revisit much of the legal thinking about the constitutional rights of public school students, because so many of them were originally pronounced during the Civil Rights Era There is no question that Ending Zero Tolerance will be of great interest to a diverse audience of people interested in public education. -- Kevin Brown,Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Indiana University Maurer School of Law-BloomingtonBlack's book is necessary reading for educators and those who work with youth, whether during classroom hours or in an after-school setting. * Youth Today *With the intent to address the toxic environment that zero tolerance perpetuates, Black outlines a convincing argument that the courts must step in to speed reform and ensure that all students are cared for equally. * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisThe haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spacesFrom Abu Ghraib and Holocaust death camps to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and slave plantations, spaces where violent crimes have occurred can often become forever changed, or haunted, in the public imagination. In this volume, Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann, and Theo Kindynis bring together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars to study this phenomenon, exploring the origins, theory, and methodology of ghost criminology. Featuring Jeff Ferrell, Michelle Brown, Eamon Carrabine, and other prominent scholars, Ghost Criminology takes us inside spaces where the worst crimes have imprinted themselves on our history, memory, and media spaces. Contributors explore a wide range of these hauntological topics from a criminological perspective, including the excavation of graffiti in the London underground, the phantom of Robert E. Lee in CharlottesvillTrade Review"The further we travel into the twenty-first century, the more otherworldly criminology feels, possessed by long-dead theoretical spirits who refuse to be exorcised, and covered over with the spider webs and pentagrams of ancient methodological approaches. It's no surprise, then, that a 'ghost criminology' has now made its presence felt with this innovative and exciting new collection. Like all good ghost stories, Fiddler, Kindynis and Linnemann’s Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment evokes a range of emotions but never once flinches from its underlying goal of posing reflective questions about the soul and purpose of criminology as a critical endeavour. " -- Keith J. Hayward, editor of Cultural Criminology

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Book SynopsisBrings together scholars from four continents to produce “dispatches” on the current state of this burgeoning field. The volume probes the context, parameters, and contours of interreligious studies, including its relation to other disciplines, its promise as a field of research, its particular terminology and methodology, and its civic agenda.Table of Contents Foreword by Anna Halafoff Preface—Hans Gustafson 1 Introduction—Hans Gustafson Part 1. Sketching the Field 2 Area, Field, Discipline—Oddbjørn Leirvik 3 Identifying the Field of Research—Geir Skeie 4 A Civic Approach to Interfaith Studies—Eboo Patel 5 The Scholar, the Theologian, and the Activist—Marianne Moyaert 6 Lessons from a Liminal Saint—Mark E. Hanshaw 7 Interreligion and Interdisciplinarity—Jeanine Diller 8 Interreligious or Transreligious?—Anne Hege Grung Part 2. History and Method 9 Historical Precedents—Thomas Albert Howard 10 From Comparison to Conversation—Frans Wijsen 11 Ethnographic Approaches and Limitations—Nelly van Doorn-Harder 12 Vitality of Lived Religion Approaches—Hans Gustafson 13 Empirical Approaches to Interreligious Relations—Ånund Brottveit 14 Ecumenical and Interreligious—Aaron Hollander 15 Places and Spaces of Encounter—Timothy Parker Part 3. Theological and Philosophical Considerations 16 Grist for Theological Mills—J. R. Hustwit 17 Dialogical Theology and Praxis—Wolfram Weisse 18 Interreligious Theology and Truth Seeking—Perry Schmidt-Leukel 19 Vivekananda's Vision—Jeffery D. Long Part 4. Contemporary Challenges 20 Decolonizing the Study of Religion—Kevin Minister 21 Decolonizing Interreligious Studies—Paul Hedges 22 Secular Imperatives—Kate McCarthy 23 (Neo)Liberal Challenges—Brian K. Pennington 24 Complicating Religious Identity—Russell C. D. Arnold 25 In Reactionary Times—Rachel S. Mikva 26 Confronting Xenoglossophobia—Caryn D. Riswold and Guenevere Black Ford 27 Kairos Palestine and Autoimmune Rejection—Peter A. Pettit V Praxis and Possibility 28 Cross-Cultural Leadership as Interfaith Leadership—Barbara A. McGraw 29 Interreligious Empathy—Catherine Cornille 30 Howard Thurman's Mentorship of Zalman Schachter-Shalomi—Or N. Rose 31 Peacebuilding—Navras J. Aafreedi 32 Nation Building—Asfa Widiyanto 33 Scholarship as Activism—Jeannine Hill Fletcher 34 Dialogue and Christian–Muslim Relations—Douglas Pratt 35 Gender and Christian–Muslim Relations—Deanna Ferree Womack 36 Conclusion—Hans Gustafson

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Book SynopsisScholars and laypeople alike are interested in religion, and many more still are interested in how to lead a meaningful life - how to flourish. The collaborative undertaking represented by Religion and Human Flourishing will further attest to the perennial importance of the questions of religious belief and the pursuit of the good life.Table of Contents Introduction Adam B. Cohen Part 1 1 Meanings and Dimensions of Flourishing A Programmatic Sketch Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, Ryan McAnnally-Linz 2 Virtues, Vices, and the Good Life A Theologian's Perspective on Compassion and Violence Celia Deane-Drummond 3 Status Viatoris and the Path Quality of Religion Human Flourishing as a Sacred Process of Becoming Jonathan Rowson 4 Spiritual Well-Being and Human Flourishing Conceptual, Causal, and Policy Relations Tyler J. VanderWeele Part 2 5 Religion and Human Flourishing in the Evolution of Social Complexity Harvey Whitehouse 6 The Next Generation Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Human Flourishing Dominic D. P. Johnson 7 Religions Help Us Trust One Another Adam B. Cohen 8 Religion's Contribution to Prosociality Azim F. Shariff Part 3 9 Religion's Contribution to Population Health Key Theoretical and Methodological Considerations Christopher G. Ellison 10 Offender-Led Religious Movements Identity Transformation, Rehabilitation, and Justice System Reform Byron R. Johnson 11 Some Big-Data Lessons about Religion and Human Flourishing David G. Myers 12 Smart and Spiritual The Coevolution of Religion and Rationality Laurence R. Iannaccone 13 The Economics of Religion in Developing Countries Sriya Iyer 14 On Balance Azim F. Shariff

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a well-known Ukrainian voice accessible to the English-speaking world.Trade Review"We should feel grateful to the translators for making Andrukhovych’s incisive essays available, for the first time and in one place, to English-speaking audiences." -- Alexander Burak, University of Florida * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsA Biographical Preface and A Note on Yuri Andrukhovych's Most Personal Essay Michael M. Naydan En Route Endeavors Mark Andryczyk Author's Introduction Yuri Andrukhovych AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY The Central-Eastern Revision (Expanded version 2005) CULTUROLOGICAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS Erz-Herz-Perz (1994) The City-Ship (1994) Carpathologia Comosphilica (1996) Time and Place, or My Last Territory (1999) A Little Bit of Urban Studies (1999) What Language are You From: A Ukrainian Writer among the Temptations of Temporariness (2002) Meeting Place Germaschka (2002) Four Million for Our Agents (2003) Land of Dreams (2004) The Star Absinthe: Notes on a Bitter Anniversary (2011) Love and Hatred in Kiev (January 2014) Seven Hundred Fierce Days, or the Role of a Contrabass in the Revolution (March 2014) Notes

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a diverse range of transnational contributors to offer one of the first comprehensive and global histories of state surveillance.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by David Lyon Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Unpacking State Surveillance: Histories, Theories, and Global Contexts Emily van der Meulen, Ryerson University and Robert Heynen, York University Section One: Medical, Disease, and Health Surveillance 2. "Coolie" Control: State Surveillance and the Labour of Disinfection across the Late Victorian British Empire Jacob Steere-Williams, College of Charleston 3. Surveillance, Medicine, and the Misterios de la Naturaleza: Campaigns to "Cure" Deafness in Late-Nineteenth Century Mexico City Holly Caldwell, Chestnut Hill College 4. "Masquerading as a Woman": The South African Disguises Acts and the Ghosts of Apartheid Surveillance, 1906-2004 B Camminga, University of Wits Section Two: Identification, Regulation, and Colonial Rule 5. The Penal Surveillant Assemblage: Attainder and Tickets of Leave in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Australia Ian Warren, Deakin University and Darren Palmer, Deakin University 6. Controlling Transnational Asian Mobilities: A Comparison of Documentary Systems in Australia and South Africa, 1890s to 1940s Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, University of the Western Cape and Margaret Allen, University of Adelaide 7. Bodies as Risky Resources: Japan’s Colonial Identification Systems in Northeastern China Midori Ogasawara, Queen’s University 8. A State of Exception: Frameworks and Institutions of Israeli Surveillance of Palestinians, 1948-1967 Ahmad H Sa’di, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Section Three: State Security, Policing, and Dissent 9. Dossierveillance in Communist Romania: Collaboration with the Securitate, 1945-1989 Cristina Plamadeala, Concordia University 10. The FBI and the American Friends Service Committee: Surveilling United States Religious Expression in the Cold War Era Kathryn Montalbano, Neumann University 11. "When under Surveillance, Always Put on a Good Show": Representations of Surveillance in the United States Underground Press, 1968-1972 Elisabetta Ferrari, University of Pennsylvania and John Remensperger, University of Pennsylvania 12. "That’s Not a Conversation That Belongs to the Museum": The (In)visibility of Surveillance History at Police Museums in Ontario, Canada Matthew Ferguson, University of Ottawa, Justin Piché, University of Ottawa, and Kevin Walby, University of Winnipeg Afterword Simone Browne, University of Texas at Austin List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada. While policy makers previously approached unemployment as a social and economic problem to be addressed through macroeconomic policies, recent labour market policy reforms have placed much more emphasis on the supposedly deficient employability of the unemployed themselves, a troubling shift that deserves close, critical attention. Tracing a behind-the-scenes history of public employment services in Canada, Bureaucratic Manoeuvres shows just how difficult it has been for administrators and frontline staff to govern unemployment as a problem of individual employability. Drawing on untapped government records, it sheds much-needed light on internal bureaucratic struggles over the direction of labour market policy in Canada and makes a key contribution to Canadian political science, economics, public administration, and sociology.Trade Review"Grundy’s patient empiricism could be put to good use in classrooms to critically explore with students the circulation of particular orientations or sensibilities through institutions and cultures over time, and to bring home the importance of taking a long view on where we are within longer histories of problematization and intervention. The readability of the book also recommends it for classroom use. Overall, Bureaucratic Manoeuvers makes an important and interesting contribution to social and employment policy and related studies in the Canadian context, and to comparative policy studies more broadly. I highly recommend it." -- Tina Wilson * Critical Social Policy *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Conceptualizing the Limits of Activation Policy 2. “More Than a Placement Service”: The Transient High Modernism of “Manpower” Planning, 1965–76 3. Making and Unmaking Frontline Professionalism, 1977–90 4. Within Reach of the “What Works Best Solution”: Evidence-Based Activation, 1994–2000 5. Toward a Culture of Results, 1996–2000 Conclusions Appendix A: List of Acronyms Appendix B: List of Interviews

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Book SynopsisUsing ideas derived from the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, this book develops key elements of a radical theory of democracy that challenges both the assumptions and commitments of contemporary neo-liberalism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Macpherson, Habermas, and the Demands of Democratic Theory 2. Reason, Truth, and Power: The Challenges of Contemporary Political Theory 3. Critical Theory and Neoliberalism 4. Towards a Critical Theory of Democracy: Deliberation, Self-interest, and Solidarity 5. Towards a Critical Theory of Democracy: The Frankfurt School and Democratic Theory 6. Towards a Critical Theory of Democracy: Participatory Democracy and Social Freedom Conclusion: Critical Theory and Radical Reform Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the context of real-world dilemmas, Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights explores fundamental questions about the purpose and nature of constitutions, states, and nations.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Constitutions and Constitutional Culture Roadmap for Chapter 1 What Is a Constitution in Legal Terms Constitutional Frameworks and the Concept of Constitutional Culture Conclusion: The Relevance of Constitutional Culture for Our Study 2. The Historical Evolution of Constitutional Culture Introduction Scotland and the United Kingdom Spain and Catalonia Quebec and Canada Conclusion: A Meeting of the Ways 3. Contemporary Constitutional Frameworks and Culture Introduction Scotland and the United Kingdom Spain and Catalonia: Overview and Territorial Structure Quebec and Canada: Regulation of Powers Conclusion 4. Constitutional Culture and Rights Introduction Methodology Children’s Rights Language and Education Religion Rights Relating to Gender and Sexuality Conclusion 5. Constitutional Culture: Legal Ecosystems and Basic Rights Introduction Constitutional Culture and Legal Ecosystems Basic Rights and Sovereignty Dual Considerations: Sovereignty and Legal Ecosystems Rebalancing of Priorities: Winners and Losers Rejecting Stasis Conclusion Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisGiven the importance that entrepreneurship and start-up businesses in technology-intensive sectors like life sciences, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, financial technologies, software and others have come to assume in economic development, the access of entrepreneurs to appropriate levels of finance has become a major focus of policymakers in recent decades. Yet, this prominence has led to a variety of policy models across countries and even within countries, as different levels of government have adapted to new challenges by refining or transforming pre-existing institutions and crafting new policy tools. Small Nations, High Ambitions investigates the roots of such policy diversity at the subnational level, offering in-depth accounts of the evolution of Quebec’s and Scotland’s policy strategies in the entrepreneurial finance sector and venture capital more specifically.      As compared to other regions and provinceTable of ContentsGraphs, Tables, and Figures Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: Hidden Developmental States 1. Minority Nationalism and Economic Policymaking Minority Nationalism and Policy Asymmetry Comparative Political Economy Economic Nationalism Scope and Case Selection Methodology Outline of the Book 2. Explaining Public Involvement in Venture Capital: Theoretical and Historical Overviews Explaining Public Sector Involvement in Venture Capital The Evolution of Public Sector Involvement in Quebec, 1960s–1990s The Evolution of Public Sector Involvement in Scotland, 1960s–1990s 3. Quebec, 1990–2003 The Bourassa II and Johnson Administrations (1989–1994) The Parizeau and Bouchard Governments (1994–1998) The Bouchard and Landry Governments (1998–2003) Concluding Remarks 4. Scotland, 1990–2003 Strategic Policymaking in Pre-Devolution Scotland (1990–1997) The “Statecraft Phase” (1997–2003) Concluding Remarks 5. Quebec, 2003–2018 The First Charest Administration (2003–2007) The Second and Third Charest Administrations (2007–2012) The Marois (2012–2014) and Couillard (2014–2018) Governments Concluding Remarks 6. Scotland, 2003–2018 The Second SLP-SLD Administration (2003–2007) The First SNP Government (2007–2011) The Second and Third SNP Governments (2011–2018) Concluding Remarks 7. Discussion and Conclusions General Overview Evaluation of Findings Final Remarks: Contributions and Avenues for Further Research Bibliography Appendix: List of Interviews

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Book SynopsisMaking Surveillance States: Transnational Histories opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taking a transnational approach, the book challenges us to rethink the presumed novelty of contemporary surveillance practices, while developing critical analyses of the ways in which state surveillance has profoundly shaped the emergence of contemporary societies. Contributors engage with a range of surveillance practices, including medical and disease surveillance, systems of documentation and identification, and policing and security. These approaches enable us to understand how surveillance has underpinned the emergence of modern states, sustained systems of state security, enabled practices of colonial rule, perpetuated racist and gendered forms of identification and classification, regulated and policed migration, shaped the eugenically inflected medicalization of disability and seTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by David Lyon Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Unpacking State Surveillance: Histories, Theories, and Global Contexts Emily van der Meulen, Ryerson University and Robert Heynen, York University Section One: Medical, Disease, and Health Surveillance 2. "Coolie" Control: State Surveillance and the Labour of Disinfection across the Late Victorian British Empire Jacob Steere-Williams, College of Charleston 3. Surveillance, Medicine, and the Misterios de la Naturaleza: Campaigns to "Cure" Deafness in Late-Nineteenth Century Mexico City Holly Caldwell, Chestnut Hill College 4. "Masquerading as a Woman": The South African Disguises Acts and the Ghosts of Apartheid Surveillance, 1906-2004 B Camminga, University of Wits Section Two: Identification, Regulation, and Colonial Rule 5. The Penal Surveillant Assemblage: Attainder and Tickets of Leave in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Australia Ian Warren, Deakin University and Darren Palmer, Deakin University 6. Controlling Transnational Asian Mobilities: A Comparison of Documentary Systems in Australia and South Africa, 1890s to 1940s Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, University of the Western Cape and Margaret Allen, University of Adelaide 7. Bodies as Risky Resources: Japan’s Colonial Identification Systems in Northeastern China Midori Ogasawara, Queen’s University 8. A State of Exception: Frameworks and Institutions of Israeli Surveillance of Palestinians, 1948-1967 Ahmad H Sa’di, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Section Three: State Security, Policing, and Dissent 9. Dossierveillance in Communist Romania: Collaboration with the Securitate, 1945-1989 Cristina Plamadeala, Concordia University 10. The FBI and the American Friends Service Committee: Surveilling United States Religious Expression in the Cold War Era Kathryn Montalbano, Neumann University 11. "When under Surveillance, Always Put on a Good Show": Representations of Surveillance in the United States Underground Press, 1968-1972 Elisabetta Ferrari, University of Pennsylvania and John Remensperger, University of Pennsylvania 12. "That’s Not a Conversation That Belongs to the Museum": The (In)visibility of Surveillance History at Police Museums in Ontario, Canada Matthew Ferguson, University of Ottawa, Justin Piché, University of Ottawa, and Kevin Walby, University of Winnipeg Afterword Simone Browne, University of Texas at Austin List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Middle East has not, historically, been a first-order priority for Canadian foreign and defence policy. Most major Canadian decisions on the Middle East have come about through ad hoc decision-making rather than strategic necessity. Balancing international obligations with domestic goals, Canadian relations with this region try to find a balance between meeting alliance obligations and keeping domestic constituents content. Middle Power in the Middle East delves into some of Canada’s key bilateral relations with the Middle East and explores the main themes in Canada’s regional presence: arms sales, human rights, defence capacity-building, and mediation. Contributors analyse the key drivers of Canada’s foreign and defence policies in the Middle East, including diplomatic relations with the United States, ideology, and domestic politics. Bringing together many of Canada’s foremost experts on CanadaMiddle East relations, this collection proTrade Review"This collection nicely demonstrates how – and why – the Middle East continues to matter to Canadians." -- Kim Richard Nossal, Queen’s University * International Journal *Table of Contents1. Introduction Thomas Juneau and Bessma Momani 2. Sleeping Beside the Elephant: The U.S. and Canada’s Middle East policy Farzan Sabet 3. Being a Reliable Ally in a Politicized War: Canada’s Fight Against the Islamic State Justin Massie and Marco Munier 4. Capacity-Building and Training: Supporting Security Services in Iraq, Jordan, and the Palestinian Territories Mike Fleet and Nizar Mohamad 5. Islamic State Foreign Fighters: Their Return and Canadian Responses Amarnath Amarasingam and Stephanie Carvin 6. Humanitarian Foreign Policy and Refugees: Welcoming Syrians in Crisis Nawroos Shibli 7. Supporting Civil Society: Jordan’s Changing Development Landscape E.J. Karmel 8. Dealing with an Illiberal Democracy: Turkey’s Erdoğan Tests Bilateral Relations Chris Kilford 9. Responding to Political Islam: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Islam in Canada Nermin Allam 10. Promoting Human Rights: Canada’s Confused Policies in the Middle East David Petrasek 11. Selling Weapons: Saudi Arabia and the Trudeau Government’s Feminist Foreign Policy Jennifer Pedersen 12. Supporting Mediation: Canada as Peacemaker in the Middle East Peter Jones 13. Balancing Canada’s Role in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process Costanza Musu 14. Navigating Ideology and Foreign Policy: Canadian Prime Ministers and Israel Frédéric Boily 15. Conclusion Nathan C. Funk

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Book SynopsisDemocracy Here and Now presents a detailed account of the 15M Movement in Spain one of the important participatory democracies of the early twenty-first century.Trade Review“Ouziel argues that 15M served as a tipping point in democratic Spain because it manifested civic freedom, a culture of caring, and even a way of life. He believes it persists because its self-created participatory cooperation is interspersed with a civil citizenship. This distinction between civil and civic citizenship nicely contributes conceptually to understanding social movements. Mainstream political scientists and theorists will question the author’s hopeful argument about 15M’s long-term impact." -- T.D. Lancaster, Emory University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword: James Tully Visiting 15M locales across Spain Six distinct types of joining hands relationships Introduction Studying democracies: Learning via examples and exemplarity 1. Exercising power together as equals 2. Roots and routes of Spain’s counter-modernity 3. Constructing alternative futures on shoestring budgets 4. Engaging state-based representative government Conclusion 5. Democracy here and now Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the structural political imbalances that exist within complex democratic federations.Table of ContentsIntroduction Contribution to the Field of Knowledge Overview of the Book 1. Laying the Groundwork: Legality, Legitimacy, Fair Democracy Nation-Building The Essential Conditions for Political Stability A Fair Democracy Redefining Markers Some Conceptual Clarifications 2. Foundations of and Changes to the Federal Project in Canada The Canadian National Project The Main “National” Policies The Centralization of Power 3. Conceptual Advances in Multinationality and the Definition of Shared Sovereignty From Territorial Federalism to Multinational Federalism The Key Federal Traditions Pactism, or Treaty-Based Federalism Quebec and the First Peoples 4. The Canadian Political Order and Constitutional Nationalism Competing Historical Narratives Constitutional Patriotism Constitutional Deliberation Deliberative Constitutionalism 5. Diversity in Advanced Liberal Democracies The Concept of Diversity Diversity as a Primary Characteristic of Modern Societies The Danger of Being Blind to Deep Diversity Reclaiming the Spirit of Ancient Constitutionalism and Advancing an Authentic Federal Project 6. The International Context and the All-Important Question of Rights From the Yalta Conference to the Fall of the Berlin Wall From the Collapse of the Soviet Union to the Failure of the Nationalitary Project in Spain Rights of National Minorities, Minority Nations, and First Peoples The Rise of the Majority 7. Multinational Federalism: Challenges, Shortcomings and Promises Multinational Federalism: A Definition Nation-Building Processes Adopting a Multinational Federalism Stance: A Pressing Need Conclusion Legitimacy Aspirations and Constraints Thinking Outside the Box Rethinking Constitutional Arrangements Contestation and Resistance Adhering to a Living Constitution Epilogue: On Future Horizons Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn the coming decade, we may see the advent of multinational federalism on an international scale. As great powers and international organizations become increasingly uncomfortable with the creation of new states, multinational federalism is now an important avenue to explore, and in recent decades, the experiences of Canada and Quebec have had a key influence on the approaches taken to manage national and community diversity around the world. Drawing on comparative scholarship and several key case studies (including Scotland and the United Kingdom, Catalonia and Spain, and the Quebec-Canada dynamic, along with relations between Indigenous peoples and various levels of government), The Legitimacy Clash takes a fresh look at the relationship between majorities and minorities while exploring theoretical advances in both federal studies and contemporary nationalisms. Alain-G. Gagnon critically examines the prospects and potential for a multinational federal state, specifiTable of ContentsIntroduction Contribution to the Field of Knowledge Overview of the Book 1. Laying the Groundwork: Legality, Legitimacy, Fair Democracy Nation-Building The Essential Conditions for Political Stability A Fair Democracy Redefining Markers Some Conceptual Clarifications 2. Foundations of and Changes to the Federal Project in Canada The Canadian National Project The Main “National” Policies The Centralization of Power 3. Conceptual Advances in Multinationality and the Definition of Shared Sovereignty From Territorial Federalism to Multinational Federalism The Key Federal Traditions Pactism, or Treaty-Based Federalism Quebec and the First Peoples 4. The Canadian Political Order and Constitutional Nationalism Competing Historical Narratives Constitutional Patriotism Constitutional Deliberation Deliberative Constitutionalism 5. Diversity in Advanced Liberal Democracies The Concept of Diversity Diversity as a Primary Characteristic of Modern Societies The Danger of Being Blind to Deep Diversity Reclaiming the Spirit of Ancient Constitutionalism and Advancing an Authentic Federal Project 6. The International Context and the All-Important Question of Rights From the Yalta Conference to the Fall of the Berlin Wall From the Collapse of the Soviet Union to the Failure of the Nationalitary Project in Spain Rights of National Minorities, Minority Nations, and First Peoples The Rise of the Majority 7. Multinational Federalism: Challenges, Shortcomings and Promises Multinational Federalism: A Definition Nation-Building Processes Adopting a Multinational Federalism Stance: A Pressing Need Conclusion Legitimacy Aspirations and Constraints Thinking Outside the Box Rethinking Constitutional Arrangements Contestation and Resistance Adhering to a Living Constitution Epilogue: On Future Horizons Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays analyses the ongoing effects of neoliberalism and assesses its impacts on society, culture, and the political environment in the present day.Table of ContentsIntroduction Lois Harder, Catherine Kellogg, and Steve Patten 1. Turbulent Times: Towards A Conjunctural Analysis of Neoliberalism and the Politics of the Present John Clarke 2. Neoliberal False Economies and Paradoxes of Social Reproduction Isabella Bakker 3. Lean on Everything? Lean Management’s Awkward Place in Neoliberalism Justin Leifso 4. Present Day Puzzles in Neoliberalism and Problems for Multiculturalism and Equality: Re-patriating Immigration Policy, A Tale of Two Provinces Alexandra Dobrowolsky 5. Challenging Narratives to Neoliberalism in Media Representations of American Health Reform: Lessons from the United States Brent Epperson 6. Happiness and Governance: Some Notes on Orthodox and Alternative Approaches Catherine Kingfisher 7. Mental Health, Recovery, and Prevention: Re-thinking the Governance of Mental Abnormality in Canada Janet Phillips 8. Apologies and Raids: Public Sex, LGBTQ2S Communities, and Neoliberalism in the Detention State Alexa DeGagne 9. Trump, Indigenous Refusal, and the End of Neoliberalism? Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez 10. Situating Noncitizenship: Humanitarian Aid, Self-Reliance Schemes, and Migrant Agency Suzan Ilcan 11. Making Canadians: Citizenship Acquisition and Foreign Adoption Lois Harder 12. Neoliberal Conversations and Contentions Janine Brodie Index

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Book SynopsisFew terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as democracy. Leaders of large states use democracy to designate their nations’ public character even as critics and rivals use the term to validate their own political perspectives. In Envisioning Democracy, the editors and contributors address the following questions: What does democracy mean today? What could it mean tomorrow? What is the dynamic of democracy in an increasingly interdependent world? Envisioning Democracy explores these questions amid the dynamic of democracy as a political phenomenon interacting with forms of economic, ethical, ethnic, and intellectual life. The book draws on the work of Sheldon S. Wolin (19222015), one of the most influential American theorists of the last fifty years. Here, scholars consider the historical conditions, theoretical elements, and practical impediments to democracy, using Wolin’s insights as touchstones in thinking thrTable of ContentsIntroduction Section 1: Wolin and Democratic Theory – Ancient Roots, Modern Issues 1. Interpreting Democracy in Undemocratic Societies John R. Wallach 2. Aristotle on Enmity: Ideology, Somatic Justice, and Emotions Ingrid Creppell 3. Sheldon Wolin and Democratic “Theory” Jason Frank Section 2: Memory and Myth in Wolin and Beyond 4. Wolin on Myth: A Critique Terence Ball 5. Social Amnesia in Canada’s TRC: Sheldon Wolin, Radical Indigenous Thought, and the Settler-Colonial Politics of Reconciliation Calvin L. Lincez Section 3: Democracy and Political Education: Wolin and Contemporary Interlocutors 6. Realistic Political Education Stephen Esquith 7. Wolin and Said on Political Education, Vision, and Intellectual Tradition Lucy Cane Section 4: Thinking with and beyond Wolin – Current Democratic Practices and Issues 8. Democracy between Reactionary Tribalism and the Megastate Iain Webb 9. The Historical Fate of Fugitive Democracy Today Terry Maley 10. Transformative Sanctuary: Rethinking Fugitive Democracy and Black Fugitivity with Frontline Communities in the Underground Railroad Romand Coles and Lia Haro 11. Visioning Limits or Unlimited Vision? The Vocation of Political Theory in the Anthropocene Andrew Biro

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Book SynopsisAmong the many twentieth-century explosions in technology that have made the world into a global village, few have had tangible or far-reaching an impact as aviation. David MacKenzie examines the efforts made to establish an international system for the regulation and operation of international air services, and the role played by Canadians in its development. MacKenzie approaches international civil aviation as an arm of government policy: the extension abroad of Canadian national policy. He also looks at the relationship between the bureaucratic and political levels of government and, in the larger context, at the relations between Canada and its major allies, the United States and Great Britain. Drawing on private papers and government documents from Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland, MacKenzie offers an international perspective on one of Canada's most important contributions to public policy in the mid-twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisThe Canadian Political Science Association's 1964 Conference on Statistics was held in Charlottetown on June 13 and 14. The general theme of the Conference was Regional Statistical Studies. Twelve papers were presented and of these nine are included in this volume.

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Book SynopsisIn 1949 the bamboo curtain clattered down over one-fifth of the people of the world. In one sudden twist of history, a vast community that had been militarily and politically allied with the West was transmuted into the ideological foe of everything the free world stands for. With the surprise intervention by Red China in Korea, a new alignment of world powers was confirmed and the bamboo curtain had been fastened down securely.If the people of China were inadequately known in the years before the Red Revolution, all free intercourse between East and West was now interrupted completely. Chinese life could be described only by released westerners who had viewed it through prison bars, or it had to be interpreted from the incredibly distorted releases of the communist propaganda bureaus.Suddenly, in 1956, China offered to open its doors to western reporters wishing to come and see what was really happening in their country. In the spring of 1957, William Kinmond, Staff R

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Book SynopsisFor centuries Latin served as an international language for scholars in Europe. Yet as early as the first half of the seventeenth century, scholars, philosophers, and scientists were beginning to turn their attention to the possibility of formulating a totally new universal language. This wide-ranging book focuses upon the role that it was thought an ideal, universal, constructed language would play in the advancement of learning.The first section examines seventeenth-century attempts to establish a universal 'common writing' or, as Bishop Wilkins called it, a 'real character and philosophical language.' This movement involved or interested scientists and philosophers as distinguished as Descartes, Mersenne, Comenius, Newton, Hooke, and Leibniz.The second part of the book follows the same theme through to the final years of the eighteenth century, where the implications of language-building for the progress of knowledge are presented as part of the wider question which

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Book SynopsisChronicles in Stone is a study of the powerful and pervasive myth of the Russian Northwest, its role in forming Soviet and Russian identities, and its impact on local communities. Combining detailed archival research, participant observation and oral history work, it explores the transformation of three northwestern Russian towns from provincial backwaters into the symbolic homelands of the Soviet and Russian nations.The book''s central argument is that the Soviet state exploited the cultural heritage of the Northwest to craft patriotic narratives of the people''s genius, heroism and strength that could bind the nation together after 1945. Through sustained engagement with local voices, it reveals the ways these narratives were internalized, revised, and resisted by the communities living in the region.Donovan provides an alternative lens through which to view the rise of Russian patriotic consciousness in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, adding a valuaTrade ReviewVictoria Donovan's book on preservation, architecture, and regional identity in Northwest Russia provides a useful corrective to works that have looked at the attempts to preserve medieval and folk Russian architecture as an episode mainly in Russian nationalism and chauvinism. * The Russian Review *Chronicles in Stone tells us a great deal, not only about patriotism and the imagined nation but also of how historical memory is curated by regional actors, as well as the struggles and deal-making between the political centre and the periphery. * Europe-Asia Studies *[Donovan] skillfully weaves her rich and detailed discussion of local dynamics into the national context of the past and present. * Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) *Whereas studies of such topics underscore the rupture of 1991, Victoria Donovan's monograph emphasizes the continuities of the postwar Soviet society in the present. Her book is part of a recent trend in historical scholarship to investigate the protection, preservation, and restoration of cultural heritage in state socialism societies. * AB IMPERIO *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Phoenixes from the Ashes: Postwar Reconstruction as a Patriotic Duty 2. Zapovedniks or Tourist Resorts? Marketing Heritage to National Audiences 3. Landscapes of Living History: Folk Architecture in the National Imaginary 4. Burnt-Out Fairy Tales: Preservation as a Metaphor for Loss After Socialism 5. Guardians of Our Heritage: Rebranding the Northwest in the Putin Era 6. "Every Centimeter of this Ground is History": Heritage, Narrative, and Identity Conclusion Appendix Selected Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHiding the Guillotine examines the question of state involvement in violence by tracing the evolution of public executions in France. Why did the state move executions from the bloody and public stage of the guillotine to behind prison doors? In a fascinating exploration of a grim subject, Emmanuel Taïeb exposes the rituals and theatrical form of the death penalty and tells us who watched, who participated in, and who criticized (and ultimately brought an end to) a spectacle that the state called punishment. France''s abolition of the death penalty in 1981 has long overshadowed its suppression of public executions over forty years earlier. Since the Revolution, executions attracted tens of thousands of curious onlookers. But, gradually, there was a shift in attitude and the public no longer saw this as a civilized pastime. Why? Combining material from legal archives, police files, an executioner''s notebooks, newspaper clippings, and documents relating to 566 executionTrade ReviewThe author combines deep archival research with contextualization: this includes addressing Ancien Régime practices, the civilizing process, centralization, and transformations in penal and information technology. This fascinating historical-sociological study, originally published in 2011, expresses apprehension concerning concealed and virtual representations of violence in modern democracies. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Competition between Legal Publicity and the Press 2. Conservative Representations of Executions 3. The Impossible Task of Designating Execution Sites 4. The Liturgical Crisis of Executionary Rituals 5. Watching Executions 6. Hiding a Ritual of Obedience: From Legitimization to Civilization Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond Medicine, Paul V. Dutton provides a penetrating historical analysis of why countless studies show that Americans are far less healthy than their European counterparts. Dutton argues that Europeans are healthier than Americans because beginning in the late nineteenth century European nations began construction of health systems that focused not only on medical care but the broad social determinants of health: where and how we live, work, play, and age. European leaders also created social safety nets that became integral to national economic policy. In contrast, US leaders often viewed investments to improve the social determinants of health and safety-net programs as a competing priority to economic growth. Beyond Medicine compares the US to three European social democraciesFrance, Germany, and Swedenin order to explain how, in differing ways, each protects the health of infants and children, working-age adults, and the eldeTrade ReviewPaul Dutton provides an insightful read that every American should take time to review. * Choice *[A] rich and satisfying read. Paul Dutton conveys his personal connection to four health systems, with well-referenced and convincing descriptions and analyses of three areas of health systems. * Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Relative Decline Is Decline All the Same 1. Infant and Child Health in the United States and France 2. Workers' Health in the United States and Germany 3. After Work in the United States and Sweden Conclusion: Beyond Medicine

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