Sociology and anthropology Books

Book SynopsisSecret societies are becoming increasingly controversialâthrust into public awareness by popular books, films, the Internet, and a host of recent documentaries. In academia, this exposure finds a parallel in the proliferation of research, institutes, and conferences. Yet the media depictions tend to be caricatures, a playing to pervasive stereotypes for public consumption, while the academic stress historical and philological matters. Indeed, to the extent a sociological focus exists, it largely emphasizes the roles these groups played in social history. And for the societies' members themselves, there has been a paucity of work on the contemporary meaning of these groupsâa neglect made mystifying by the vast social changes that have taken place over the past century. In this study, and for the first time by any scholar, Kenney moves beyond history and applies the methods and theoretical tools of contemporary sociology to study the lived world of freemasons in today's society. To provide a clear portrait of the patterned experiences of contemporary freemasons and the issues faced by "the Craft" today, Kenney draws on qualitative data from three primary sources: (1) extensive interviews with 121 contemporary freemasons in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia; (2) video footage shot for a feature film on contemporary freemasonry; and (3) his observations and experiences in nearly fifteen years as a freemason. Brought to Light provides a highly original contribution to sociology, Masonic scholarship, and the social sciences generally.Trade Review``Freemasonry has provoked reactions varying from fascination and curiosity to shock and anxiety ever since it became popular in the early eighteenth century. While there have been many historical studies, Scott Kenney's enthralling and groundbreaking book offers for the first time a detailed sociological analysis of contemporary Freemasonry. The book is packed with memorable first-hand insights into the reaction of individual Freemasons to the craft. Kenney's clearly written and accessible study is not only a major contribution to sociological discussion of the role and significance of associational culture but also lifts the curtain on a frequently overlooked aspect of contemporary society.'' -- Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow -- 201603``Since the eighteenth century, Freemasonry has been an important part of civil society in Canada and the United States. Today, the number of lodge members is rapidly diminishing, but there are still young men who wish to adhere. Surprisingly, there is little sociological research on current forms of Masonic life. In this unique book, sociologist Kenney, a Mason himself, investigates how men become Freemasons, why they stay or leave, and what membership of an old ritualistic society means for them. His account ends with an insightful analysis of the order's decline and the ways lodges try to cope with it.'' -- Jeffrey Tyssens, Department of History, Vrije Universiteit Brussel -- 201603

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Book SynopsisHenri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, the Critique was a philosophical inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be the founding text of all that we know as cultural studies, as well as a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography, sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. A work of enormous range and subtlety, Lefebvre takes as his starting-point and guide the "trivial" details of quotidian experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet one which remains the only source of resistance and change.This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and optimism.Trade ReviewThe last great classical philosopher. -- Fredric JamesonOne of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century. -- David HarveyA savage critique of consumerist society. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisDescribed in "Nature" as 'a delight for the soil aficionado', this multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology and history. The geographical spread includes Mesoamerica, Africa, Europe, Australia, India and Easter Island. Few things are more important to human survival than the fertility of the soils from which so much of our food comes. Yet few aspects of the relationship between human society and the environment get so little attention. This book explores some of the enormous variety in the ways that people have worked with, thought about, damaged and restored soils. It also shows some of the ways in which soils, their properties and their histories have influenced human affairs. Soils are the substrate of all human society: from the palaeolithic to the present, their history is our history.Trade Review'This collection covers new ground. It is unique in terms of combining geomorphology, archaeology and history as well as in the choice of its study regions. The chapters contribute over a great geographical span to a fuller understanding of the intricate web of relations between soils and humans.' (Prof. Winfried E.H. Blum, President, European Confederation of Soil Science Societies and Former Secretary General, International Union of Soil Sciences)Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Soils, Soil Knowledge, and Environmental History: An Introduction (J.R. McNeill and Verena Winiwarter) 2. An Introduction to Soil Nutrient Flows (Robert S. Shiel) 3. Exploitation and Conservation of Soil in the 3000-Year Agricultural and Forestry History of South Asia (R.J. Wasson) 4. A Soils History of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean Islands (Tim Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach and Nicholas Dunning) 5. Wetlands as the Intersection of Soils, Water, and Indigenous Human Society in the Americas (Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach and Tim Beach) 6. A History of African Soil: Perceptions, Use and Abuse (Kate B. Showers) 7. Prolegomena to a History of Soil Knowledge in Europe (Verena Winiwarter) 8. Nutrient Flows in Pre-Modern Agriculture in Europe (Robert S Shiel) 9. Human Interaction with Soil-Sediment Systems in Australia (R.J. Wasson) 10. The Dynamics of Soil, Landscape and Culture on Easter Island (Andreas Mieth and Hans-Rudolf Bork 11. Know Your Soil: Transitions in Farmers' and Scientists' Knowledge in Germany (Frank Uekoetter)

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Book SynopsisAfter reading Silently Silenced you will never view the ways of government in quite the same light again. A must-read for all people who are interested in democratic processes particularly in relation to criminology, sociology or the law. This is the first English edition of a work that has also appeared in Norwegian, Swedish and German. A central theme of Silently Silenced is that there exist ‘numerous silent, suave and imperceptible methods and processes of silencing opposition which are structural, do not have clear-cut limits but are subtly unbounded, they absorb opposition, they are the methods and processes of everyday life brought into the political realm’. As Mathiesen points out, it is ‘disturbingly clear how easily and imperceptibly we are transformed into acquiescent human beings’. Silently Silenced concludes with a quest for a ‘revitalisation’ of opposition and critique.Trade Review'A highly original and provocative book ... [Mathiesen is] a lone wolf in present day sociology [that] makes his books worth reading'Journal of Law and Society (Vol.33, No3).'A Remarkable little volume ... a stimulating and challenging collection of essays recommended to all with an interest in the processes of governance and government, especially those that relate to criminology ... 'Professor Jacqueline Toombs, Stirling University, Scolag Legal Journal, January 2006'Once again Mathiesen presents a text of both relevance and significance to the scholarly world on a topic that has largely evaded discussion up to the present time. This thought-provoking work will be useful to anyone interested in democracy and processes of government and the basic rights of citizens in relation to the state'.Ruth Penfold-Mounce, University of LeedsTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition, 2004; Introduction; Silent Silencing; Silencing Through Pulverisation; System and Silencing; Sociology - A Silenced Profession; Political Surveillance and Public Arena; A Meeting of Judges in Italy - A Travel Account; Panopticon and Synopticon as Silencing Systems; A Spiral Of Silence?; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDie letzte Hürde im Studium ist manchmal die schwerste: die Abschlussarbeit. Welches Thema passt am besten? Wie gliedern Sie Ihre Arbeit am sinnvollsten? Was hat es mit der Quellenarbeit auf sich? Wie gestalten Sie Ihren Empirie-Teil? Daniela Weber zeigt Ihnen in dieser aktualisierten Auflage, wie Sie mit dem Druck fertig werden und welches Handwerkszeug für Sie wichtig ist - unabhängig davon, in welchem Fach Sie Ihren Abschluss machen.Table of ContentsÜber die Autorin 9 Vorwort zur 4 Auflage 21 Einführung 23 Über dieses Buch 23 Konventionen in diesem Buch 24 Törichte Annahmen über den Leser 25 Wie dieses Buch aufgebaut ist 25 Teil I: Sie sollen also eine Abschlussarbeit schreiben 26 Teil II: Notwendiges und nützliches Handwerkszeug zurechtlegen 26 Teil III: Das Wissen der anderen nutzen 26 Teil IV: Ihre Arbeit entsteht 27 Teil V: Fertig! Oder noch nicht ganz? 27 Teil VI: Der Top-Ten-Teil 28 Symbole, die in diesem Buch verwendet werden 28 Downloads zu diesem Buch 29 Teil I: Sie sollen also eine Abschlussarbeit schreiben 31 Kapitel 1 Was »Abschlussarbeit schreiben« bedeutet 33 Die Aufgabe: Abschlussarbeit 33 Arten von wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten 35 Hausarbeit, Seminararbeit oder Projektarbeit 35 Bachelorarbeit 36 Master-Thesis 36 Diplomarbeit 37 Dissertation und Habilitation 37 Ein Thema suchen und loslegen 38 Was kann ich und was habe ich? 38 Eine Entscheidung treffen 39 And nothing else matters … 42 Und es kann dazu noch Spaß machen! 42 Kapitel 2 Ihre Erwartungen und die der anderen 45 Was Sie von sich erwarten können und sollten 45 Vom Sinn und Unsinn, sich selbst unter Druck zu setzen 46 Wie gut kann es werden? 46 Die Perspektive der Betreuenden 50 Was Betreuende wollen 50 Wie Betreuende bewerten 53 Die Erwartungen weiterer Beteiligter abschätzen 55 Was will das Unternehmen? 55 Was will Ihr Umfeld? 56 Kapitel 3 Phasen einer Abschlussarbeit – und ein Plan 59 Die einzelnen Phasen einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit 59 Phase 1: Vorbereitung 60 Phase 2: Recherchieren und das Thema erarbeiten 63 Phase 3: Zusammenhänge verstehen und beschreiben 64 Phase 4: Die Eigenleistung 65 Phase 5: Nacharbeiten 66 Machen Sie sich einen konkreten Plan 66 Grundlagen des Zeitmanagements 66 Das Wichtigste von allem: Den schriftlichen Zeitplan anlegen 71 Teil II: Das Handwerkszeug zurechtlegen 77 Kapitel 4 Textverarbeitung und mehr in Office-Paketen 79 Allgemeines im Umgang mit Computer und Dateien 80 Microsoft Office – Umgang mit dem Platzhirsch 82 Microsoft Word 84 Microsoft Excel 87 Microsoft PowerPoint 88 Microsoft OneNote 89 Cloud- und Onlinedienste in MS Office 90 Sonstige Microsoft-Office-Programme 91 LibreOffice, OpenOffice und NeoOffice – gute Alternativen 92 LibreOffice Writer 93 LibreOffice Math und Calc 94 LibreOffice Impress 94 LibreOffice Draw 95 LibreOffice Base 95 Office-Lösungen fürs Handy oder Tablet 96 WPS Office + PDF (früher: Kingsoft Office) 96 AndrOpen Office 97 OfficeSuite 98 LaTeX 98 Tipps zur Auswahl des Textverarbeitungsprogramms 99 Kapitel 5 Notwendige und nützliche Software und Apps 101 Literaturverwaltungsprogramme 101 Die üblichen Verdächtigen 102 Brauchbare Freeware 111 Alternativen für den Mac 114 Apps für die Literaturverwaltung 115 Mindmap – Ideenauswertung 116 MindManager 117 XMind 119 MindMeister 120 Visio 2019 120 KnowledgeMap 121 Zeichen- und Grafikprogramme 121 Hilfe bei der Anwendung 124 Kapitel 6 Analoge Helfer und Lerntechniken 127 Richtig lesen 128 Systematisch lesen: PQ4R 128 Schnell lesen: Speedreading 129 Schreiben – mit der Hand 129 Oldschool: Stift, Zettel & Co. 130 Post-its und Textmarker 132 In der Hand: Zettelkästen 133 An der Wand: Boards und Charts 134 Vergessen Sie nicht, dass Sie denken können 135 Brainstorming 135 Ideen in Mindmaps sammeln 136 Sie sind nicht allein! 137 Unterstützung annehmen 137 Unterstützung (online) organisieren 138 Professionelle Hilfe 139 Teil III: Das Wissen der anderen nutzen 141 Kapitel 7 Das 1 x 1 der Literaturrecherche 143 Was Sie grundsätzlich über Literaturrecherche wissen müssen 144 Recherchereihenfolge 144 Recherchephasen 146 Technisches Vorgehen 148 Hilfe beim Recherchieren 150 Online-Quellensuche 152 Bereits geschrieben: Abschlussarbeiten und Dissertationen 152 Online nach Veröffentlichungen suchen 154 Kataloge und Datenbanken 158 Offline-Quellensuche 162 Bibliotheken nutzen 163 Unternehmensquellen sammeln 165 Kapitel 8 Gefundene Quellen beschaffen und sortieren 167 Wie viele Quellen sollen es sein? 167 Woher Sie bekommen, was Sie recherchiert haben 168 Volltexte im Internet finden 169 Quellen aus der Bibliothek bekommen 170 Bücher und Studien kaufen 172 Was tun mit all den Büchern und Kopien? 174 Wie man Quellen nach Arten unterscheidet … 174 Quellen erfassen und strukturieren 178 Literaturverwaltungsprogramme und andere Hilfsmittel nutzen 179 Kapitel 9 Quellen korrekt zitieren 181 Relevante Daten einer Quelle 181 Fremdes Wissen in der Arbeit unterbringen 185 Allgemeine Überlegungen zu Zitaten 186 Grundsätzlich: Quellenangaben im Text oder Fußnoten 190 Zitationsstile 191 Abkürzungen in Quellenangaben 196 Der richtige Ort für Quellenangaben 197 Die passenden Einträge im Literaturverzeichnis 198 Quellenangaben aus dem Verwaltungsprogramm in die Textverarbeitung einfügen 201 Citavi und Word 202 EndNote und Word 202 Zotero und LibreOffice 203 Teil IV: Ihre Arbeit entsteht 205 Kapitel 10 Ein Exposé zum Thema erstellen 207 Vorab: Das grobe Layout einrichten 208 Vom Thema zum Titel und zur Forschungsfrage 208 Wie kommt das Thema zum Studierenden? 209 Wie wird ein Titel formuliert? 210 Das Grundkonzept: Thema – Titel – Forschungsfrage 216 Was macht ein gutes Exposé aus? 217 Ausgangssituation – Was ist gesetzt? 218 Problemstellung – Was wollen Sie lösen? 218 Forschungsfrage – Welches Ziel hat die Arbeit? 218 Weitere Teile des Exposés 219 Kapitel 11 Die Gliederung anlegen 223 Die Arbeit gliedern – für wen? 223 Aufbau der Grob- und der Feingliederung 224 Erste Ansätze zum Gliederungsaufbau 224 Grobe Bestandteile Ihrer Arbeit 225 Verfeinerung der Grobgliederung 227 Nachrecherche 231 Gliederungsmethoden 232 Eine einfache Gliederungsmethode 232 Weiterführende Gliederungsmethoden 234 Systematik von Gliederungen 236 Regeln und Fallstricke beim Gliedern 237 Zur Namensgebung von Überschriften 240 Weitere Bestandteile Ihrer Arbeit 242 Der Überblick: Verzeichnisse 242 Dahinter: Der Anhang 245 Die Garnitur: Deckblatt, Sperrvermerk, Abstract, Vorwort und eidesstattliche Versicherung 246 Kapitel 12 Die Formatierung einrichten 251 Wieso genau kommt nun die Form ins Spiel? 252 Regel Nr 1: Richten Sie Formatvorlagen ein 253 Formatvorlage und Formatierung 253 Das Fließtext-Format »Standard« einrichten 254 Die Überschriften-Formate einrichten 256 Sonstige wichtige Formatvorlagen 261 Regel Nr 2: Stellen Sie die Seitenränder ein 263 Regel Nr 3: Legen Sie Verzeichnisse an 264 Ein Inhaltsverzeichnis einfügen 264 Abbildungs- und Tabellenverzeichnis erstellen 266 Das textverarbeitungseigene Literaturverzeichnis 267 Was noch zu beachten ist … 269 Kopf- und Fußzeilen einrichten 270 Seitennummerierung anpassen 271 Abbildungen, Tabellen und deren Beschriftung 273 Verweise 276 Kapitel 13 Die eigentliche Arbeit schreiben 279 Grundsätze des wissenschaftlichen Schreibens 280 Den Inhalt wissenschaftlich aufbereiten 280 Schreiben nach Plan 289 Die Theorie schreiben: Was sagen die Experten? 292 Das Umfeld erklären: Welcher Teil der Welt soll es sein? 294 Die Studie auswerten: Wer hätte das gedacht? 295 Den Eigenanteil formulieren: Vorhang auf zum Selbst-Denken 296 Am Ende: Einleitung und Fazit schreiben 297 Hilfe bei Schreibblockaden und anderen Hindernissen 298 Kapitel 14 Empirisch forschen – Daten sammeln und auswerten 301 Was es mit »Vorwissen« auf sich hat 302 Forschung designen 302 Qualitative vs quantitative Untersuchungen 303 Gute Güte(-kriterien) 305 Hypothetisch betrachtet … 306 Im Trüben fischen und andere Arten der Datenerhebung 307 Beobachtung 308 Befragung 309 Experiment 310 Literatur und andere Quellen beschaffen 311 Instrumente der Datenerhebung 311 Interviewleitfaden 312 Protokoll 312 Fragebogen 313 Erhebungen planen und durchführen 315 Aufbereitungs- und Auswertungsmethoden 316 Daten aufbereiten 316 Qualitative Informationen auswerten 317 Quantitative Erhebungen auswerten 320 Befragungs- und Auswertungssoftware 321 Online-Befragungstools 321 Programme für die quantitative Datenauswertung 324 Qualitative Datenaufbereitung und -analyse 328 Teil V: Fertig! Oder doch nicht ganz? 333 Kapitel 15 Zu guter Letzt: Die Abschlusskontrolle 335 Weitere Durchläufe 335 Nur lesen, nichts tun 335 Kapitel für Kapitel überarbeiten 336 Rechtschreibung und Stil korrigieren 337 Der letzte Schliff am Format 340 Ein PDF erzeugen 341 Kapitel 16 Vom Drucken, Binden und Abgeben 343 Wie kommt die Farbe aufs Papier? 343 Wer hilft beim Drucken? 344 Was Sie über Bindungen wissen sollten 346 Was bei der Abgabe noch zu beachten ist 347 Kapitel 17 Die erfolgreiche Verteidigung Ihrer Arbeit 349 Das Publikum, der unbekannte Feind 349 Eine Folienstruktur generieren 351 Von Bildern, Tönen und Animationen 354 Üben, üben, üben 356 Geschicktes Präsentieren 356 Online präsentieren 358 Kapitel 18 Die Arbeit veröffentlichen 361 In welcher Form können Sie eine Abschlussarbeit publizieren? 361 Was sonst noch wichtig ist 364 Teil VI: Der Top-Ten-Teil 367 Kapitel 19 Zehn Fallen, die Sie vermeiden sollten 369 Organisatorische Fallen 369 Falle 1: Den Zeitplan zu straff anlegen 369 Falle 2: Zu früh mit dem Schreiben beginnen 370 Falle 2,5: Zu früh mit dem Forschen beginnen 371 Inhaltliche Fallen 371 Falle 3: Vom Thema abschweifen 371 Falle 4: Modelle beschreiben, ohne sie verstanden zu haben 372 Stilistische Fallen 372 Falle 5: Wortgetreu zusammenfassen 373 Falle 6: Den Text für Idioten oder nur für Experten schreiben 373 Formale Fallen 374 Falle 7: Mit verschiedenen Dateiformaten arbeiten 374 Falle 8: Die Vorgaben erst am Schluss beachten 374 Kommunikationsfallen 375 Falle 9: Dem Betreuer auf die Nerven gehen 375 Falle 10: Zu spät um Hilfe rufen 376 Kapitel 20 Die zehn wichtigsten Fragen, die Sie mit Ihrer Betreuerin klären sollten 377 Stichwortverzeichnis 379

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Book SynopsisRomane schreiben und veröffentlichen Finden Sie den Roman in sich Haben Sie auch schon einmal mit dem Gedanken gespielt, Ihren eigenen Roman zu schreiben? Dieses Buch begleitet Sie auf Ihrem Weg als Schriftsteller. Axel Hollmann und Marcus Johanus helfen Ihnen, faszinierende Buchideen zu entwickeln, interessante Figuren zu erfinden, fesselnde Dialoge zu schreiben und spannende Handlungsbögen aufzubauen. Außerdem finden Sie in diesem Buch das wichtigste Handwerkszeug, das Sie als Romanautor beherrschen sollten, und Möglichkeiten, Ihren Roman als gedrucktes Buch oder E-Book, im Selfpublishing oder bei einem Verlag zu publizieren und zu vermarkten. Sie erfahren Was es über Drei-Akte-Struktur, Heldenreise und Erzählperspektive zu wissen gibt Wie Sie Ihr Werk überarbeiten Was Sie von Agenten und Verlagen erwarten können Wie Sie sich in den sozialen Medien präsentieren

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together studies by seventeen specialists in the science of religions in which they relate the changes in their discipline to the changes which have occurred in a select number of modern(ising) societies worldwide. It attempts to study these developments in their relation to and as conditioned and constrained by cultural change, changes in educational systems, technology, population (for example migration), economic patterns, politics, and, last but not least, religious systems. The essays focus on resp. France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the USA, Turkey, Israel, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Indonesia, Japan, and China. Written in honour of Dr. Lammert Leertouwer, professor of History of Religions and the Comparative Study of Religions at Leiden University from 1979 until his retirement in 1997, the book is particularly important for all those who are interested in the religious, social and political contexts of the academic Study of Religions in general and in the various countries dealt with in particular.

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Book SynopsisMost people, and indeed governments, hold the conviction that reforms, rather than revolutions, are likely to produce more appropriate and acceptable results. This is especially true for developing countries. That is because reforms are gradual in their implementation and respectful to past policy fabrics of a society. On the other hand, the simultaneous spread of communication technology, global liberalization of the market, and peripheral homogenization of cultures, have caused extreme tensions in just these developing countries. In this book, scholars from different countries around the world highlight the reforms and the tensions, in the light of the questions: what has been achieved, what has failed, and what is still needed? Experiences from such diverse locations as Nigeria, Ghana, Guatemala, South Korea, Taiwan, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania are combined with more general observations from other countries. Contributors are Don Adams, N’dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Thomas Clayton, Mark Ginsburg, Julius O. Ihonvbere, Kent Klitgaard, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Martha Mantilla, Arild Schou, Judy Sylvester, and Yidan WangTable of ContentsTUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO Introduction JULIUS O. IHONVBERE Politics of Constitutional Reforms and Democratization in Africa MARK GINSBURG, DON ADAMS, THOMAS CLAYTON, MARTHA MANTILLA, JUDY SYLVESTER, AND YIDAN WANG The Politics of Linking Educational Research, Policy and Practice: the Case of Improving Educational Quality in Ghana, Guatemala, and Mali KENT KLITGAARD Environmental Reforms in the United States: Policy and Political Implications, and Economic and Scientific Arguments AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI Neoliberal Economic Reforms and Workers of the Third World at the End of the Second Millennium of the Christian Era N’DRI THÉRÈSE ASSIÉ-LUMUMBA Educational and Economic Reforms, Gender Equity, and Access to Schooling in Africa ARILD SCHOU Democratic Local Government and Responsiveness: Lessons from Zimbabwe and Tanzania LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisSituating Globality challenges the dominant view that globalization is a primary threat to African societies and economies. It explores how these societies are appropriating elements of the emerging global culture, arguing the significance of this appropriation in local struggles, the expression of critical thinking, ideologies and ritual styles of behaviour. Combining an interest for micro-level processes of situating the multifaceted process of globality with the exploration of reflexivity, creativity and the production of knowledge, Situating Globality straddles the divide between anthropological and philosophical representations of Africa in the new world order. The first section examines philosophical issues relating to the production of knowledge in and about Africa from a globalizing perspective, while the other sections include case studies showing how these processes are accommodated in everyday life.Trade Review"On the whole, the book seems to have everything within the list of subjects it treats." – Mokethi B.G. Mothlhabi, in: Religion & Theology, 2004Table of ContentsContents Maps vii Photographs vii PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture 3 Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk & Jan-Bart Gewald PART II: GLOBALITY THROUGH APPROPRIATION: ANALYSES AT THE CONTINENTAL LEVEL 2 Global and local trends in media ownership and control: Implications for cultural creativity in Africa 57 Francis B. Nyamnjoh 3 Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia 90 Jan-Bart Gewald 4 Can ICT belong in Africa, or is ICT owned by the North Atlantic region? 107 Wim van Binsbergen 5 ‘Man will live well’: On the poetics of corruption in a global age 147 Sanya Osha PART III: GLOBALITY THROUGH WORLD RELIGIONS 6 ‘Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia’: Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain 163 Rijk van Dijk 7 Global connections, local ruptures: The case of Islam in Senegal 190 Roy Dilley 8 How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth and women’s value in an Islamic town of Niger 220 Adeline Masquelier PART IV: GLOBALITY AND AFRICAN HISTORIC RELIGIONS 9 The social life of secrets 257 Ferdinand de Jong 10 The persistence of female initiation rites: Reflexivity and resilience of women in Zambia 277 Thera Rasing List of authors 311

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses, and at the same time reflects, the impact of Max Weber on both the social sciences and on critical theory’s critique of the social sciences. Weber’s conception of ‘vocation’ is a guiding thread unifying concerns about the nature, scope and limits of theoretical thinking among social scientists, whether supportive or critical of Weber.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables and Figures Editor’s Foreword – The age of Weber, by THomas M. Kemple Author’s Introduction – The Ambivalence of Reason: Max Weber’s Analysis of Western Modernity PART ONE. THE LIMITS OF ‘RATIONALITY’: FROM TRADITIONAL TO CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY Editor’s note on Part I I. Reading Max Weber: Critical Theory and the Limits of Sociology II. Critical Theory in America, 1938-1978: A Case of Intellectual Innovation and its Reception III. Critical Theory and Social Science: Episodes in a Changing Problematic from Adorno to Habermas IV. Functional Rationality and ‘Sense of Function’: Critical Comments on an Ideological Distortion V. Use Value and Substantive Rationality: Marx and Weber on Dichotomization in Modern Social Theory PART TWO. RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL SCIENCE: FROM SOCIAL THEORIZING TO REFLEXIVE PRAXIS Editor’s note on Part II VI. Technocracy as Late Capitalist Ideology: Between Spectre and Myth VII. Communication, Deprivation and Mobilization: Notes on the Achievement of Communicative Action and Related Difficulties VIII. Science, Technology, and Innovation: Reflections on Capital and Common Sense IX. Essential Process of Modernity: A Critical Analysis of Social Science Research Practices and an Alternative X. Time, Space and Value: Recovering the Public Sphere Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents views of American sociology from minority groups and important intellectual movements that did not merge into the mainstream. Coinciding with the centenary of the American Sociological Association, it provides little-known background information to the development of the field. A first section highlights tensions between impartial scientific sociology and scientific social reform. A second section uncovers the experiences of female, African American, and Latino pioneers in the field, as well as a sociologist from a religious minority. A third section traces the organizational history of the field, including gendered, racial, regional, and outsider perspectives. A final section focuses on several neglected trajectories. With this volume, American sociology can be seen in its full context.Trade Review'Too often academic celebrations of the past do not tell it like it really was. In the case of the centennial of US sociology, mainstream celebrations are creating myths of white men inventing bold new sociological research and teaching, yet ignore the foundational role of the many women and minority scholars who were the first pioneers in empirical sociology. In contrast, this extensive and carefully researched collection portrays sociology like it really was -- and to a significant extent, unfortunately, like it really remains today.' Joe Feagin.

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Book SynopsisThis book delves into Israeli society where internal divides have emerged from divergent value systems in a context of powerful globalization, immigrant–society behavior, and a sharp majority–minority division. A short but hectic experience, Jewish nationalism draws its vitality from reformulations of ancestral symbols which permeate the dynamics of the confrontations of the dominant culture and numerous parties, all contesting its exigencies. Israel's conflicts revolve around this issue, forming a unique dynamic of multiple interacting forces of convergence and divergence. This case raises several major questions about the sociology of multiculturalism. Is Israel One?' was selected Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2006.Trade Review“Is Israel One? is the most detailed analysis yet of the growing complexity of Israeli society…Clearly such a wealth of information takes its place as an important reference source for scholars studying Israeli society." - Robert Stone American University

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life. New strategies for marketing and advertising to children, the production of gendered subjectivity in maquiladora factories, the racialized economic history of the construction of the Chicago School of sociology, and the normalization of cosmetic plastic surgery in contemporary America—these are some of the crossroads under investigation here, where cultural meanings and practices are set against historical landscapes of power. Included are contributions from William Gamson, Juliet Schor, Stephen Pfohl, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Jackie Orr, Leslie Salzinger, Eva Garroutte, Davarian Baldwin, Ramon Grosfoguel, Charlotte Ryan, Danielle Egan, Charles Sarno, Steve Farough, Karen McCorkmack, Abigail Brooks, Aimee Van Wagenen and William Wood.Table of Contents1. Culture, Power, and History: An Introduction, Stephen Pfohl and Aimee Van Wagenen 2. Culture “Under the Knife and Proud of It:” An Analysis of the Normalization of Cosmetic Surgery, Abigail Brooks 3. “What Are You Lookin’ At?” The Oppositional Gaze, Intersectionality, and the Social Geographies of White Masculinities, Steven D. Farough 4. The Commodification of Childhood: Tales from the Advertising Front Lines, Juliet B. Schor 5. Movement Impact on Cultural Change, William A. Gamson 6. On the Place of Allegory in the Methodological Conventions of a Critical Sociology: A Case Study of Max Weber’s 7. Protestant Ethic, Charles Sarno 8. An Epistemology of Haunting, Aimee Van Wagenen 9. Defining “Radical Indigenism” and Creating an American Indian Scholarship, Eva Marie Garroutte 10. Power Eyeing the Scene: The Uses and (RE)uses of Surveillance Cameras in an Exotic Dance Club, R. Danielle Egan 11. To Build a More Perfect Discipline: Ideologies of the Normative and the Social Control of the Criminal Innocent in the Policing of New York City, Delario Lindsey 12. Resisting the Welfare Mother: The Power of Welfare Discourse and Tactics of Resistance, Karen McCormack 13. From Gender as Object to Gender as Verb: Rethinking How Global Restructuring Happens, Leslie Salzinger 14. Viral Power: An Interview by William Wood, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 15. History Black Belts and Ivory Towers: The Place of Race in U.S. Social Thought, 1892–1948, Davarian L. Baldwin 16. The Militarization of Inner Space, Jackie Orr 17. It Takes a Movement to Raise an Issue: Media Lessons from the 1997 U.P.S. Strike, Charlotte Ryan (Virtual) Myths, William R. Wood 18. Geopolitics of Knowledge and Coloniality of Power: Thinking Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans from the Colonial Difference, Ramón Grosfoguel References About the Authors and Editors

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Book SynopsisAccording to mainstream economic thinking, inspired by the ideas of Smith, Ricardo and others, globalisation of the world economy is profitable. But unlike these classic writers, neoliberal economists pay little attention to the moral and social consequences of economic policies. Despite the fact that present social circumstances differ a great deal from those in the time of Smith and Ricardo they keep maintaining that “an invisible hand” will further social ends. In doing so they ignore growing poverty worldwide and the exclusion of countries from the international legal order and of people from the right to social participation and freedom. This book pays attention to economic aspects of globalisation and also to philosophical, legal, social, cultural, ethical and ecological aspects. Its aim is to contribute to possible solutions for worldwide problems that accompany the globalisation process.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations 1. The Challenges of Social Sustainable Globalisation Eva Nieuwenhuys and Joop de Kor Part I — Neo-Liberal Globalism and Philosophical Presuppositions 2. Liberal Globalism: A Defence Paul Cliteur 3. The Ambiguity of Globalisation Gerard Visser 4. Social, Sustainable Globalisation Requires a Paradigm Other Than Neo-Liberal Globalism Eva Nieuwenhuys 5. Individual Freedom and ESOCUL Rights: The Illusions of Libertarianism Rob Buitenweg Part II — Neo-Liberal Globalism and its Institutional and Political Framework 6. What’s in it for us? Globalisation, International Institutions and the Less Developed Countries Joop de Kort 7. Social Sustainable Globalisation and International Law: in Need of a New International Constitutional Balance Marcel Brus 8. The Odds of ‘Liberalisation’ as an Informing Principle of Law, Governance and Development Jan Michiel Otto 9. Water as a Social, Economic and Ecological Good in a Globalising World Antoinette Hildering Part III — Neo-Liberal Globalism and Non-State Actors 10. Morality and the Legitimacy of Non Governmental Organisations’ Involvement in International Politics and Policy Making Anton Vedder 11. Can Corporate Governance Contribute to Sustainable Development? Cornelis de Groot 12. Sustainability Reporting by Companies is Necessary for Sustainable Globalisation Tineke Lambooy Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the public role of Islam in contemporary world politics. “Public Islam” refers to the diverse invocations and struggles over Islamic ideas and practices that increasingly influence the politics and social life of large parts of the globe. The contributors to this volume show how public Islam articulates competing notions and practices of the common good and a way of envisioning alternative political and religious ideas and realities, reconfiguring established boundaries of civil and social life. Drawing on examples from the late Ottoman Empire, Africa, South Asia, Iran, and the Arab Middle East, this volume facilitates understanding the multiple ways in which the public sphere, a key concept in social thought, can be made transculturally feasible by encompassing the evolution of non-Western societies in which religion plays a vital role.

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Book SynopsisThis volume fundamentally improves our understanding of processes like the secularization of society, and the growth of mass ideological movements, by looking upon these transformations to modernity as a species of conversion akin to religious conversion. The geographical areas covered by the contributors—the Ottoman domain, India, China, and Japan—provide striking examples of the dynamic force of conversion as a reaction to the tremendous pressures exerted by colonialism and imperialism and by the types of transformations constitutive of modernity.Table of ContentsPart 1: Converting States: Nationalism, Ritual, and Religious Identity The Crisis of “Conversion” and Search for National Doctrine in Early Meiji Japan - Trent Maxey Civic Faith and Hybrid Ritual in Nationalist China - Rebecca Nedostup The Atmosphere of Conversion in Interwar Japan - Alan Tansman Adamant And Treacherous: Serbian Historians On Religious Conversions - Bojan Aleksov Part 2: Converting Institutions: Education, Media, and Mass Movements Gender, Conversion, and Social Transformation: The American Discourse of Domesticity and the Origins of the Bulgarian Women’s Movement, 1857-1876 - Barbara Reeves-Ellington Secular Conversion as a Turkish Revolutionary Project in the 1930s - Ertan Aydin Some Consideration on the Building of an Ottoman Public Identity in the Nineteenth Century -Şerif Mardin Science Without Conscience: Unno Jūza and Tenkō of Convenience - Sari Kawana Charismatic Entrepreneurship and Conversion: Oomoto Proselytization, 1916-1935 - Nancy Stalker Part 3: Converting Selves: Translating Modern Identity Translation and Conversion Beyond Western Modernity: Tolstoian Religion in Meiji Japan - Sho Konishi Civilization and Its Discussants: Medeniyet and the Turkish Conversion to Modernism - Kevin Reinhart The Double Bind of Race and Religion: The Conversion of the Dönme to Turkish Secular Nationalism - Marc Baer The Body as the Locus of Religious Identity: Examples from Western India - James W. Laine The Poetics of Conversion and the Problem of Translation in Endō Shūsaku's Silence - Dennis Washburn Part 4: Converting Others: Hybridity and the Problem of Sincerity “Mass Movements” in South India, 1877-1936 - Eliza F. Kent From Morals to Melancholy: How a Japanese Critic Rejected Bakin and Learned to Love Shakespeare - Patrick Caddeau Hidden Believers, Hidden Apostates: The Phenomenon of Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Christians in the Middle East - Maurus Reinkowski True Believers? Agency and Sincerity in Representations of “Mass Movement" Converts in 1930s India - Laura Dudley Jenkins From Ideological Literature to a Literary Ideology: “Conversion” in Wartime Japan - James Dorsey

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Book SynopsisThis study deals with time and with music, and the link between the two is the suggestion that music is a modeling of the way we construct time. Time—the now, duration, succession and order of succession; the past, the future—is seen as a resource for managing systemic disequilibrium and as the evolutionary elaboration of the now. As organic dynamical systems humans maintain themselves by means of self-regulatory actions, nows, and these nows are proposed as feeding off a pre-temporal, interindividually accessed energy in nature, an ongoing cosmic proto-present. Speech is a way out of sensory immediacy and a way into a complex shared world where coordination and planning take place away from the distractions of the present as given by the senses. Music is presented as one of a group of behaviors comprising the arts and games that evolved in parallel with language to compensate for its abstractness. Language tends to the complexly abstract and music favors the complex, sensorially concrete: like speech, music operates on a synthetic plane, but provides synthetic occasions for sensory immediacy at a level of complexity to match that of language.

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Book SynopsisThrough close readings of contemporary made-in-Singapore films (by Jack Neo, Eric Khoo, and Royston Tan) and television programs (Singapore Idol, sitcoms, and dramas), this book explores the possibilities and limitations of resistance within an advanced capitalist-industrial society whose authoritarian government skillfully negotiates the risks and opportunities of balancing its on-going nation-building project and its “global city” aspirations. This book adopts a framework inspired by Antonio Gramsci that identifies ideological struggles in art and popular culture, but maintains the importance of Herbert Marcuse’s one-dimensional society analysis as theoretical limits to recognize the power of authoritarian capitalism to subsume works of art and popular culture even as they attempt consciously—even at times successfully—to negate and oppose dominant hegemonic formations.Trade Review“. . . an extremely impressive overview of film and television in Singapore with very strong contextualization in an analysis of the polity, arts culture, and culture industries in Singapore. The author provides a powerful synthesis of Frankfurt School critical theory and British cultural studies to provide an original mapping of Singapore and its key forms of television and film culture. The book is extremely well-written, organized, and argued and . . . could be a classic on its subject. . . . Drawing on a wealth of critical material, the author provides an insightful mapping of these cultural forms and creators of popular culture in Singapore. The author has a definite talent for providing excellent analysis with detailed reading of cultural texts and producers and a sharp critical eye that appeared very illuminating. These studies are exemplary works of concrete analysis of Singapore film and television . . . . " Douglas Kellner, Philosophy of Education Professor at UCLA and author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle. “The author’s mediations on the battles inside the PAP-fortress have yielded insightful commentaries about contemporary Singapore society, made the book an interesting and compelling read . . ., and . . . offered a welcome spark to much of the extant scholarship on Singapore media, culture and society that have come out of Singapore . . . . the author has done an admirable job in tackling the ‘thinking-out-of-the box’ task he has set out for himself. In so doing, the book highlights the contradictions of contemporary Singapore framed by state apparatuses that foster ‘one-dimensional’ thinking and behaviour on the one hand, and on the other, residents who are, or appear, less one-dimensional in their outlook and praxis. This book[’s] . . . revealing light over the epistemology of the Singapore cultural closet lends fodder to the ongoing debates about contemporary cultural formations in regards to media, state, and society in the interdisciplinary areas of critical/cultural studies, transnational media studies, multicultural/postcolonial studies, and Asian/globalization studies . . . . It has appeal for both conservative and liberal academics, researchers and university students in these areas, Singaporean or otherwise – for different reasons, of course.” Professor Tan See Kam, FSH-Communication, University of MacauTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. One-Dimensional Singapore 2. The Culture Industry in Renaissance-City Singapore 3. Singapore Idol: Consuming Nation and Democracy 4. Under One Ideological Roof: TV Sitcoms and Drama Series 5. Imagining the Chinese Community through the Films of Jack Neo 6. The Tragedy of the Heartlands in the Films of Eric Khoo 7. The Films of Royston Tan: Local Notoriety, International Acclaim Conclusion Appendix A: Cited Television Programs and Episodes Appendix B: Cited Films by Jack Neo, Eric Khoo, and Royston Tan References Index

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Book SynopsisOvercoming Passion examines the passion for race in contemporary Malaysia. Broadly the essays look at the disjunction between the falsity of race as a scientific category and the entrenched belief that race determines one's rightful identity. They probe the ways in which individual minds and institutions of power fail or refuse to recognise and act in accordance with the knowledge that race exists only insofar as its existence is sustained by the believer's belief in it. The contributors draw from a burgeoning but under-examined archive of Malaysia-related social texts, ranging from media and technological discourse, popular culture and literary production to historical writings, produced originally in English, Malay and Mandarin Chinese.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Overcoming Passions for Race and Community - David C.L. Lim A Case of Mistaken Identities? Retelling Malaysia's National Story - Suvendrini K. Perera The Rejected Imagination in the Poetry of Fang Ang, Fu Chengde and Chen Qianghua - Gabriel Wu From Fragmented Identities to Post-Identity: Lin Xingqian's Poetics of Diaspora - Tee Kim Tong "Why aren't you a Muslim"? Pride and Prejudice through Gunawan Mahmood's Teen Fiction - David C.L. Lim Looking through the Corridor: Malaysia and the MSC - Susan Leong The Ideological Fantasy of British Malaya: A Postcolonial Reading of Swettenham, Clifford and Burgess - Daniel P.S. Goh Globalisation and Bangsa Malaysia Discourse in Racial Crisis - Mohan Ambikaipaker "Your memories are our memories": Remembering Culture as Race in Malaysia and K.S. Maniam's Between Lives - David C.L. Lim A Passion for Other Lovers: Rewriting the "Other" in Ooi Yang-May's Fictionalisation of Multiethnic Malaysia - Tamara S. Wagner About the Editor and Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of Good Governance traces the implementation of the good governance agenda in Malawi from the loan documents signed by the representatives of the government and the Bretton Woods institutions to the individual experiences of civil servants who responded in unforeseen ways to the reform measures. Ethnographic evidence gathered in government offices, neighbourhoods and the private homes of civil servants living in Malawi’s urban and peri-urban areas undermines the common perception of a disconnect between state institutions and society in Africa. Instead, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of civil servants’ attempts to negotiate the effects of civil service reform and economic crisis at the turn of the 21st century.Trade ReviewThe anthropology of the postcolonial state takes a major step forward with Gerhard Anders' outstanding study. His ethnographic insights into the planning, implementation and manipulation of the civil service reform in Malawi give food for thought well beyond the specific case he writes about. No other study of the 1990s good governance agenda in Africa has accomplished Anders' nuanced account of the lived experience among civil servants caught up in the throes of change. This is a landmark study that challenges facile generalizations about corruption and the dysfunctional state in Africa. Harri Englund, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements vii Glossary and abbreviations ix Map of Malawi x 1 INTRODUCTION: UNPACKING GOOD GOVERNANCE 1 Civil servants as implementers and “target population” 1 The “dysfunctional” African state 3 Good governance as technology 5 Field sites 8 Studying up, follow the policy 9 Basic information about the civil service 11 Outline 14 2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 15 Banda’s rule and the “New Malawi” 16 The results of two decades of structural adjustment 19 The civil service – from localisation to good governance 24 3 CONSTRUCTING COUNTRY OWNERSHIP 28 Introduction 28 The emergence of a concept 30 Conditionality and country ownership 34 The normativity of numbers 40 The discovery of the “C word” 42 Conclusions 47 4 THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS 49 Deconstructing policy implementation 49 Retrenchment of employees made redundant 51 The introduction of new housing allowances 55 Increasing fragmentation of the civil service 60 Conclusions 68 5 ERODING SALARIES AND DOING BUSINESS 70 The African entrepreneurial spirit 70 The meaning of having a job in the civil service 73 “How to make ends meet” 83 Winners and losers of economic liberalisation 89 Conclusions 97 vi 6 “DISTANCE SAVES ME” 99 Introduction 99 Kubwerera kumudzi 101 Education and social stratification 110 The importance of associations 111 The nature of kinship duties 115 Conclusions 120 7 THE DEMOCRATISATION OF APPROPRIATION 122 Introduction 122 “Bad politics” 124 The office mores – a parallel social and moral order 130 A “primoridial public sphere”or a patchwork of moralities? 135 Conclusions 139 8 CONCLUSIONS: THE STATE IN SOCIETY 141 The paradoxical policies of the World Bank and the IMF 142 A note on theorising the postcolonial state 148 References 151 Index 163

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Book SynopsisThis book delves into Israeli society where internal divides have emerged from divergent value systems in a context of powerful globalization, immigrant–society behavior, and a sharp majority–minority division. A short but hectic experience, Jewish nationalism draws its vitality from reformulations of ancestral symbols which permeate the dynamics of the confrontations of the dominant culture and numerous parties, all contesting its exigencies. Israel's conflicts revolve around this issue, forming a unique dynamic of multiple interacting forces of convergence and divergence. This case raises several major questions about the sociology of multiculturalism. Is Israel One?' was selected Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2006.

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Book SynopsisThe February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 is the most comprehensive book on the epic uprising that toppled the tsarist monarchy and ushered in the next stage of the Russian Revolution. Hasegawa presents in detail the intense drama of the nine days of the revolution, including the workers' strike, soldiers' revolt, the scrambling of revolutionary party activists to control the revolution, and the liberals’ conspiracy to force Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate. Based on his previous work, published in 1981, the author has revised, enlarged, and reinterpreted the complexity of the February Revolution, resulting in a major and timely reassessment on the occasion of its centennial. See inside the book.Trade Review"... his achievement in creating a superbly clear and detailed, indeed encyclopaedic, rendering of the whirlwind of events that plunged Russian society into crisis in February 1917 and gave birth to ‘Dual Power’ is formidable scholarship." - Simon Cosgrove, Europe-Asia Studies 72/9 (2020)Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Maps List of Abbreviations Part I: Russia and the First World War 1. Russia Enters the War 2. The Political Crisis of the Summer 1915 3. Deepening Gulf: The Government and the Liberals, 1916 4. Petrograd during the War 5. The War and the Workers 6. The War and the Revolutionary Parties Part II: On the Eve 7. The Tsar, the Tsarina, and the Government 8. The Security of Petrograd 9. The Liberal Opposition 10. The Liberals, Conspiracies, and the Freemasons 11. The Workers and the Revolutionary Parties Part III: The Uprising 12. The Beginning: February 23 13. The Second Day: February 24 14. The General Strike: February 25 15. Bloody Sunday: February 26 16. The Insurrection, February 27 Part IV: The Petrograd Soviet and the Duma Committee 17. The Formation of the Petrograd Soviet 18. The Formation of the Duma Committee 19. The First Steps of the Duma Committee 20. The Petrograd Soviet and the Masses 21. The ‘Transfer’ of Power Part V: The Abdication of Nicholas II 22. Nicholas II and the Revolution 23. The Duma Committee and the Monarchy 24. The Stavka and Counterrevolutionary Attempts 25. The Abdication of Nicholas II 26. The Duma Committee’s Delegates Part VI: The Formation of the Provisional Government and the Birth of Dual Power 27. The Formation of the Provisional Government 28. Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich’s Renunciation of the Throne 29. The Provisional Government, the State Duma, and the Birth of Dual Power 30. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUtopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation begins by examining the concept of utopia in Latin American thought, particularly its roots within indigenous emancipatory practice, and suggests that within this concept of utopia can be found a resonance with the dialectic of negativity that Hegel developed under the impact of the French Revolution, further developed by such thinker-activists as Marx, Lenin and Raya Dunayevskaya. From this theoretical-philosophical plane, the study moves to the liberation practices of social movements in recent Latin American history. Movements such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, Indigenous feminism throughout the Americas, and Indigenous struggles in Bolivia and Colombia, are among those taken up--most often in the words of the participants. The study concludes by discussing a dialectic of philosophy and organization in the context of Latin American liberation.Trade Review"The key question driving Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation is this: ‘[a]re there living threads which connect a concept of utopia found in many of today’s Latin American movements and the dialectic as found in Hegel, created anew in Marx, and by others?’ (4). In Parts 1 and 2 of the volume, Eugene Gogol approaches this question directly: first, he unveils ‘certain concepts of dialectical thought […] that can aid us in grasping the dialectic in Hegel as in life’ (28); second, he looks for ‘strands of the dialectic as they emerge from within Latin America itself’ (4). The result is impressive. In clear and unhurried prose, Gogol offers an erudite exploration of some complex theoretical ground, and then deftly applies it to a few instances of popular rebellion in the region." – Eduardo Frajman, in: Marx &Philosoph, 27 July 2016Table of ContentsAcknowledgements XI Introduction 1 I Utopia and the Dialectic as Contested Terrain 1 II The Present Moment 5 III Origins—Dunayevskaya and the Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy 8 IV Structure of the Present Study 10 PART 1: PHILOSOPHIC FOUNDATIONS 1 The Meaning of Utopia in Latin America 15 I “The Right to One’s (Latin America’s) Own Utopia” 15 II “Utopia as Space (Place) of Social Resistance” 17 III Utopia and Latin American Thinkers 20 2 Dialectical Thought—from Hegel to Marx, from Lenin to Dunayevskaya. What is the Power of Negativity for Our Day? 25 I Moments in the Hegelian Dialectic 25 II Marx-Hegel—from “Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic” to Capital 33 III Lenin-Hegel—Philosophical Preparation for Revolution? 37 IV Dunayevskaya-Hegel—Reading Absolute Negativity “As New Beginning” 45 3 Are There Emancipatory Threads between Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin America? 57 I Preliminary Note: The Dialectic of Universal-Particular-Individual Reaching toward Utopias-Projects-Masses 57 II The Challenge in Practice and in Theory: Will Latin America Arrive. Only on the Threshold of a New Society, or Enter into the Realm of Absolute Liberation? 58 III How Do a Latin American Concept of Utopia and the Dialectic of Absolute Negativity Speak to Each Other? 63 PART 2: THE STATE AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA 4 Haiti, 1986–1993: The Uprooting (Dejoucki), the Flood (Lavalas) and the Repression 75 I Haiti was the First: A Brief Note on the Significance of the Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804 75 II Haiti in Books and in Life 76 III Theology of Liberation in Concrete Practice: Aristide’s Sermons and Actions 83 IV Epilogue: Post-the Jan. 12, 2012 Earthquake 88 5 The Revolutionary Process in Venezuela—Advances, Contradictions, Questions 95 I The Passing of Hugo Chavez 95 II Preliminary Moments: The Oil Addiction; The First Period of the Chavez Government 96 III Under the Whip of the Counter-Revolution a Revolutionary Process Begins 98 IV Chavez’s Call to Build “21st Century Socialism”—What is Its Meaning? How Can It Move “Beyond Capital”? Who are the Social Subjects of Revolutionary Change? What is the Role of the State? The Unions? The Party? 100 V The Venezuelan Debate on 21st Century Socialism: Relation of Party and Mass Movement; What Kind of Party? What Kind of Leadership? The Role of the Intellectual: Excerpts from Forum on “Intellectuals, Socialism and Democracy” 112 VI Is There a Missing Ingredient in Venezuela Today? 116 6 Mexico’s Revolutionary Forms of Organization: The Zapatistas and the Indigenous Autonomous Communities in Resistance 119 I Indigenous and Zapatista Organizational Praxis—The Building of Autonomy in Rebel Lands 119 II Anti-Capitalist and from the Left: The 6th Declaration and La Otra Campaña 127 III Once Again, the Building of Autonomy in Rebel Lands: The Second Encuentro of the Zapatistas and the Peoples of the World—The Power of Indigenous Voices in Rebellion 132 IV The Zapatistas and Mexico’s Left Intellectuals 135 Appendix 1: Zapatista Document: Them and Us—Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos 140 Appendix 2: Zapatista Document: Them and Us—Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés 146 7 Bolivia: In Revolutionary Transformation, 2000–2005; The Pull of State-Capitalism, 2006–2013 152 I The Revolutionary Social Process, 2000–2005 153 II What Happens After? Social Movements under the Threat of State-ism and Neoliberalism in Unity, 2006–2013 161 PART 3: REVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES IN LATIN AMERICA: VOICES FROM BELOW 8 Social Movements in Argentina 171 Francisco T. Sobrino I Background 171 II The Movement of the Unemployed 172 III The Movement of “Recovered Factories” 175 IV The Meaning of the Protests of December 2001 and the Mobilizations of 2002 178 V The Local Assemblies 179 VI Attempts by the New Government and the Dominant Classes to Resolve the Crisis 182 VII The Cooptation of Sectors of Intellectuals, Human Right Organizations and a Part of the Left 184 VIII Other Measures Used by the Ruling Classes in order to Solve the Crisis of Legitimacy 186 IX In a Way, a Provisional Conclusion 186 Appendix: Excerpts from an interview with Paula, an Argentine feminist and member of the Gay, Lesbian, Transvestite, Transgender, and Bisexual (glttb) Collective 188 9 Indigenous Struggles for Territory, Autonomy and Natural Resources 195 I The Meaning of Autonomy in Mexico: The Case of the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Cópala 197 Brenda Porras Rodríguez and Fernando Alan López Bonifacio II The Nasa: Subjects of Dignity 208 Appendix: Interview with Nasa Activists 225 III The Community Police in Guerrero An Interview with Marciano, an Indigenous Mixtec, on His Work and Experience 228 10 Women as Force and Reason of Social Transformations 231 I Feminisms and Liberations in Our America [Nuestra América] 233 Francesca Gargallo II The Role of Women in the Struggle for Autonomy in Mexico 260 Raquel Vázquez Appendix 1: Women in the Montaña Region of Guerrero: The Other Arm of Community Justice 270 Appendix 2: Political Statement of the Xinka Communitarian Feminist Women: There is No Decolonialization without Depatriarchalization! 279 11 Youth, Popular Education, Teachers 281 I The tipnis March: New Horizons for Popular Education 283 Benito Fernandez II On Urban Resistance and Processes of Formation of Subjects for Emancipatory Action: An Examination of the Cultural Breakthrough Brought about by the Medellin Youth Network, 1991–2011 302 Edison Villa Holguín III The Battle for Oaxaca: Repression and Revolutionary Resistance 328 Eugene Gogol Appendix 1: Yo Soy #132 338 Appendix 2: Chilean Student Protests 351 Camila Vallejo Appendix 3: The Books of the Zapatista Little School Zapatistas from the Indigenous Communities in Resistance 357 PART 4: BATTLE OF IDEAS AND PRACTICES; CONCLUSIONS 12 Horizontal-ism, State-ism, Marxism and the Indigenous Dimension—Raul Zibechi, Álvaro García Linera, Hugo Blanco 375 I Raul Zibechi, Chronicler of Latin America in Social Rebellion 375 II The Statist Marxism of Álvaro García Linera 380 III Hugo Blanco—Peruvian Revolutionary: From Trotskyism and the Peasantry to the Indigenous Movement for Land and Mother Earth 385 Appendix 1: The Organization and Building of Mass Power: Horizontalism and Verticalism, Utopia and Project 389 Rubén Dri Appendix 2: The “Top-Down” State and the “Bottom-Up” State 399 Guillermo Almeyra 13 The Zapatistas and the Dialectic 402 I “The Time of the No and the Time of the Yes” 404 II The Zapatista Concept of Time 404 III The Rewinds: Our Dead, the Living, Biographies, Diversity, Stories, Our History, and Other Subjects 406 14 Marx, Hegel and Dunayevskaya—Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization in the Context of Latin American Liberation 414 I Marx and the Present Moment in Latin America 414 II Hegel’s Revolution in Philosophy—From Master Slave to Absolute Negativity 416 III Dunayevskaya’s Reading of the Dialectic in Marx—Its Significance for Today 419 IV Conclusion: Toward a Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy 424 Bibliography 431 Index 438

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Book SynopsisInspired by Raymond Williams’ cultural materialism, H.F. Pimlott explores the connections between political practice and cultural form through Marxism Today’s transformation from a Communist Party theoretical journal into a ‘glossy’ left magazine. Marxism Today’s successes and failures during the 1980s are analysed through its political and cultural critiques of Thatcherism and the left, especially by Stuart Hall and Eric Hobsbawm, innovative publicity and marketplace distribution, relationships with the national UK press, cultural coverage, design and format, and writing style. Wars of Position offers insights for contemporary media activists and challenges the neglect of the left press by media scholars.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface List of Tables and Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: The Left, Cultural Form and Political Practice  1 Sign(ifier) of the Times?  2 The Production of the ‘Marketplace of the Ideas’  3 Overview of the Book 1 Marxism Today’s Story: An Historical Narrative of a Cultural Form  1 The Left, Cultural Form and Political Practice  2 The Party and the Party Paper: Leninist Communication Practices  3 Leninist Communication Practices: The Party as a Medium of Communication  4 The CPGB’s Practice of ‘Democratic Centralism’  5 Leninist Communication Practices: Agitation and Propaganda  6 Leninist Communication Practices: The Party Paper  7 A Basic Typology of Communist Party Publications  8 The Beginnings of Postwar Reconstruction and Periodical Developments  9 Precursors: The Commission on Party Journals 1953  10 Precursors: Marxist Quarterly (1954–57)  11 Precursors: The Commission on Inner Party Democracy 1957  12 Marxism Today: ‘The First Generation’: 1957–77  13 A Party of Two Wings  14 The Brief Rise of ‘Eurocommunism’  15 Marxism Today’s Transformation: ‘Caution & Compromise’, 1977–83  16 ‘Reaction & Realignment’ 1983–87  17 ‘The Tail Wags the Dog’: 1987–89  18 ‘New Times’, 1989–91  19 Conclusion 2 From ‘New Left’ to ‘New Labour’: Marxism Today’s Political Project and the ‘Retreat from Class’  1 ‘Forward March of Labour Halted?’  2 ‘Thatcherism’  3 Thatcherism: Critiques  4 Separation of ‘The Economic’  5 Alternate Political Explanations  6 Elections, Polling and Public Opinion  7 ‘Common Sense’  8 Thatcherism’s Theoretical Underpinnings: The ‘Wrong’ Gramsci?  9 ‘Ideology’ vs. ‘Discourse’  10 ‘Hegemony’  11 Social Production of Ideologies  12 The Hegemonic Apparatus  13 ‘New Times’: From New Left to New Labour?  14 Part II: ‘From Wars of Position to Cultural Politics’  15 ‘Popular Politics’  16 Feminism and the New Social Movements  17 ‘Municipal Socialism’  18 The Communist Party, Popular Culture and Marxism Today  19 From ‘Rock Against Racism’ to ‘Designer Socialism’  20 Conclusion 3 The Party Line versus the Bottom Line? The Political Economy of Left Magazine Production  1 ‘Passive’ and ‘Active’ Editorships, 1957–91  2 ‘Editorial Control’ or ‘Cultural Circle’?  3 ‘Who Pays the Piper, Calls the Tune?’ Financing Marxism Today  4 Advertising  5 ‘Private Enterprise or Political Commitment?’ Printing and Subscriptions  6 ‘A Little Help From My Friends’: The Process of Magazine Production  7 The Production Process  8 Conclusion 4 From the Party Line to the Politics of Design: Marxism Today’s Cultural Transformation  1 The Theory of the Periodical and Magazine Design in the 1980s  2 Format: ‘From a Journal into a Magazine’  3 The First Format: 1957–79  4 The Second Format: 1979–86  5 The Third Format: 1986–91  6 Front covers  7 Visual Communication, Advertising and Design  8 Editorial Sections: Features  9 Features: Alternative Modes of Presentation  10 Modes of/for Discussion  11 Other Editorial Sections  12 Cultural Coverage: From ‘Reviews’ to ‘Channel Five’  13 The Politics of Form and the Form of Politics  14 Conclusion 5 From the Margins to the Mainstream: Publicity, Promotion and Distribution in the Marketplace of Ideas  1 Party Distribution  2 ‘Out-of-Party’ Distribution  3 In the Marketplace of Left Periodicals  4 ‘Cadres to Consumers’: Changes in Readership, 1957–91  5 Contributors  6 Book Publishing  7 ‘The Art of Talking’: Discussion Groups, Talks, Events, Conferences  8 Promotion  9 Publicity  10 National Press Coverage  11 ‘Thinking the Unthinkable’  12 Conclusion 6 Write Out of the Margins: Communist Ideology and Accessibility, Rhetoric and Writing Style  1 Twentieth-Century Communist Rhetoric  2 Accessibility  3 Marxism Today’s Defensive Rhetorical Strategy 1957–77  4 ‘Solidification’  5 Principles of Good Style  6 Language  7 Plain Style  8 Marxism Today’s Top Two Contributors: Eric Hobsbawm and Stuart Hall  9 Eric Hobsbawm and the Rhetorical Style of ‘Realistic Marxism’  10 Rhetorical Strategy and Writing Style  11 Stuart Hall: Socialist Public Intellectual and Polemical Rhetorician  12 Stuart Hall’s Rhetorical Techniques and Writing Style  13 Qualification and Conditionality  14 Unity and Division on the Left: From ‘Common Sense’ to Caricature?  15 Tropes and Metaphors  16 Stuart Hall’s ‘Realism’  17 Conclusion 7 W(h)ither the Party Paper? What Lessons for the Left Press  1 A Perennial Question  2 Epilogue Illustrations References Index

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Book SynopsisThe collection of archival documents Karl Radek on China reflects the views of one of the major Soviet China specialists, activists of the Russian revolutionary movement, and leaders of the Trotskyist Opposition, Karl Bernhardovich Radek (1885-1939). The documents present an original conception of the history of China from ancient times to the twentieth century as well as a delineation of the fundamental political problems of China in the 1920s. The appendices contain letters from Trotsky to Radek as well as the 'Chronological Information' of Zinoviev and Trotsky, outlining the most important stages of the struggle of the United Left Opposition against the Stalinist majority in the AUCP(b) regarding problems of the Chinese revolution. None of the documents have ever been published in English.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Karl Radek – Sinologist  by Alexander V. Pantsov 1 On the Fundamentals of Communist Policy in China 22 June 1926 2 History of the Revolutionary Movement in China: The 1926–7 Lecture Course Fall 1926 – Early 1927 3 Controversial Questions of Chinese History: Lecture to the Society of Marxist Historians 26 November 1926, Stenographic Report 4 On the International Situation of China 11 March 1927, Stenographic Report 5 Driving Forces of the Chinese Revolution: Lecture to the Communist Academy 13 March 1927, Stenographic Report 6 Concluding Word to the Lecture ‘Driving Forces of the Chinese Revolution’ 27 March 1927, Stenographic Report 7 The ‘Betrayal’ of the National Movement by the Chinese Upper Bourgeoisie Early May 1927 8 Speech at the Institute of World Economy and World Politics of the Communist Academy during the Discussion of the Lecture by L.N. Geller on the Chinese Workers’ Movement 17 May 1927, Stenographic Report 9 A New Stage in the Chinese Revolution: From Chiang Kai-shek to Wang Jingwei 2 July 1927, G.E. Evdokimov, G.E. Zinoviev, K.B. Radek, G.I. Safarov, L.D. Trotsky Afterword: Bukharin Continues to Mislead the Chinese Communists Appendix 1: Letter from L.D. Trotsky to K.B. Radek 26 June 1926 Appendix 2: Letter from L.D. Trotsky to K.B. Radek 14 May 1926 Appendix 3: Facts and Documents Which Should be Accessible for Verification by Every Member of the AUCP(b) and the Whole Comintern: Chronological Information 21 May 1927, G.E. Zinoviev and L.D. Trotsky Biographical Dictionary Works Cited Bibliography of the Works of K.B. Radek and Literature about K.B. Radek (Not Included in the Present Collection) Index

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Book SynopsisAmadeo Bordiga was one of the greatest figures of the Third Communist International. The Science and Passion of Communism presents his Soviet and internationalist battles in the revolutionary post-WWI period until that against Stalinism, and those in the post-WWII period against the triumphant U.S. capitalism and for an original, updated re-presentation of Marxist critique of political economy.Trade ReviewInterview by David Broder with Pietro Basso on Jacobin about “the burying of Bordiga’s name, his ecological vision of communism, and how he challenged Joseph Stalin to his face” [Click here] “[The book] is the first English-langauge selection of Bordiga’s writings to cover both the chronological spread and thematic diversity of his interventions. The fine translations by Giacomo Donis and Patrick Camiller allow non-Italian speakers fresh insight into what Basso charmingly calls the “goldmine” of Bordiga’s vast array of research… For many decades, even the results of this research have had a tiny readership… [but] when you do get your hands on a copy, you will be in doubt that Bordiga is a wrongly overlooked thinker.” - David Broder, in: Weekly Worker [Full review]Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Yesterday’s Battles and Today’s World Part 1 The Italian Left in the Great Revolutionary Struggle (1912–26) 1 Against the War 2 On Elections 3 On Soviets 4 On Strategy and Tactics 5 On Fascism, against Fascism 6 The Lyons Theses 7 Against Stalin and ‘Socialism in One Country’ Part 2 The Struggle for the Rebirth of Revolutionary Communism (1945–65) Section 1 Russia and Revolution in Marxist Theory 8 Lessons of Counter-revolutions 9 Forty Years of Organically Analysing Russian Events within the Dramatic Context of the Social and Historical Course of the World Section 2 The Critique of Triumphant Capitalism 10 Property and Financial Capital 11 Welfare Economics 12 The Law of Hunger 13 Murder of the Dead 14 Inflation of the State 15 The United States of America (1947–57) Section 3 On the ‘Gigantic Movement of Emancipation’ of the Coloured Peoples 16 The Factors of Race and Nation in Marxist Theory (1953) 17 East 18 The Multiple Revolutions 19 ‘Racial’ Pressure of the Peasantry, Class Pressure of the Coloured Peoples Section 4 On the Revolutionary Prospects of Communism 20 The Revolutionary Programme of Communist Society 21 Who’s Afraid of Automation? 22 The Immediate Revolutionary Programme in the Capitalist West Section 5 On the Party 23 Considerations on the Party’s Organic Activity When the General Situation is Historically Unfavourable (1965) Annotated Bibliography of Bordiga’s Writings Annotated Bibliography on Bordiga in Italian References Index Illustrations

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Book SynopsisKōzō Uno’s Theory of Crisis presents an unparalleled and systematic demonstration of the inevitability of crisis under the capitalist mode of production. Based on a radical re-interpretation of Marx’s Capital, Uno’s theory of crisis emphasizes ‘excess capital alongside surplus populations’ and ‘the commodification of labour power’ at the heart of Marx’s theory of crisis, and additionally provides a concise overview of capitalist crises from the stage of mercantilism to the imperialist stage of capitalism. Included are two Appendix essays by Uno, which disentangle theoretical difficulties related to the theory of crisis in Marx’s Capital, and two original and contemporary essays by Professors Makoto Itoh and by Ken Kawashima and Gavin Walker. This book was originally published in Japanese as Kyōkō-ron by Iwanami Shoten, 1953.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface Author’s Preface Uno Kōzō, Kyoko Ron (Theory of Crisis) Introduction  1 Classical Phenomena of Crises  2 The Theory of Crisis and Foreign Trade  3 The Role of Commercial Capital in Relation to the Phenomena of Crisis  4 The Possibility and Inevitability of Crisis in Capitalist Society 1 Prosperity  1 The Accumulation of Capital in the Phase of Prosperity  2 The Role Performed by Credit  3 Speculative Development and the Rise in Prices 2 Crisis  1 The Collision between the Profit Rate and the Interest Rate  2 The Excess of Capital and the Excess (Surplus) of Populations  3 The Destruction of the Value of Capital 3 Depression  1 The Stagnation of the Reproduction Process  2 Inaugurating New Accumulation through Improvements to the Production Process  3 The Turn towards Prosperity 4 The Turnover Period of the Business Cycle 5 The Inevitability of Crisis in Capitalist Society  1 Mechanical Inevitability and Historical Inevitability  2 The Inevitability of Crisis and the Inevitability of Collapse  3 The Theory of Crisis and the Analyses of Crises Appendix 1: Problems of the Theory of Crisis in Capital Appendix 2: Capital and the Demonstration of the Inevitable Ground of Crisis Guiding Comments  Makoto Itoh Supplementary Essay: Uno Kōzō’s Theory of Crisis Today  Ken C. Kawashima and Gavin Walker Works Cited in Theory of Crisis Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the second half of the twentieth century the countries of East Asia saw one of the most remarkable transformations in human history, from relatively poor societies to global powerhouses of accumulation, proletarianisation and mega-urbanisation. This volume features Marxist scholars from East Asia and Europe who are pioneering a new approach to this transformation using the theory of state capitalism. The essays analyse the histories of countries on either side of the Cold War divide within the broader framework of twentieth century global capitalist expansion, while at the same time offering a sophisticated critique of Developmental State Theory. Contributors are: Tobias ten Brink, Gareth Dale, Jeong Seongjin, Michael Haynes, Kim Ha-young, Kim Yong-uk, Lee Jeong-goo, and Owen MillerTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Note on Romanisation of East Asian words 1 The Emergence and Development of Capitalism in East Asia: The State Capitalist Approach  Owen Miller and Gareth Dale 2 The Trajectory of North Korean State Capitalism: from Formation to Crisis, 1945–90  Kim Ha-young 3 Mao’s China: the Chinese Working Class under State Capitalism, 1949–62  Kim Yong-uk 4 State Capitalism and the Permanent War Economy in South Korea, 1950–72  Jeong Seongjin 5 China’s State-Permeated Capitalism: a Global Political Economy Perspective  Tobias ten Brink 6 Developmental State Theory and Chinese Capitalism: a Critical Review  Lee Jeong-goo 7 Historical Dynamics and the History of Capitalism and State Capitalism  Michael Haynes Glossary of East Asian Terms Bibliography I: References in English and Other European Languages Bibliography II: References in East Asian Languages Index

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Book SynopsisThe practice of everyday life in Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) is structured by a series of public events, of which funerals are the most important. Even after Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis in the late 1990s, thousands of extravagant funeral ceremonies, requiring huge expenditures, were still organized each year. To understand the paradoxes and complexities of Torajan livelihoods, Edwin de Jong develops an approach that goes beyond existing economically biased perspectives on livelihoods by including both the cultural and the economic realm, positioned in the socio-political world with a transnational perspective, placed against a historical background, while not losing sight of diversity and individual creativity. It also advances the ethnography of Tana Toraja and the comparative study between numerous similar societies.Trade Review"In my opinion, Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja is the best reference on the culture and economic development of Tana Toraja. It would be useful material for anyone interested in gaining an understanding of the historical and current economic situation for ritual ceremonies of ethnicity in Southeast Asia." – Quynh Huong Nguyen, Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, in Southeast Asian Studies 7/3 (2018).

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Book SynopsisAu Maroc, les mythes fondateurs des cultes et rituels de guérison illustrent de manière probante les processus d’élaboration des significations et des dynamiques du pouvoir dans le passé proche et leurs articulations actuelles, tant à l’échelle locale que nationale. In Morocco, the founding myths of healing cults and rituals illustrate the symbolism and dynamics of power in both local and national contexts.Trade Review'Cette publication contribue significativement à la compréhension des enjeux sociopolitiques et religieux de la société marocaine actuelle, au travers de la confrontation entre les rites des saints et le sultan. Rhani y dépeint avec rigueur la réalité de la plasticité des rites et des mythes, qui sont en constante évolution, et qui pourrait mener à un désir populaire d’un retour du califat. Cet ouvrage captivera les spécialistes de la culture marocaine par sa justesse et le sens du détail qui traverse l’étude du saint Ben Yeffu'. Véronique Leclerc, Département d’anthropologie, Université Laval, Québec (Québec), Canada, dans Anthropologie et Sociétés, vol. 39, 2015Table of ContentsTABLE DES MATIÈRES Liste des illustrations Avant-propos Introduction 1. Herméneutique et archéologie du culte des saints 2. Espaces et lignages saints Une dynamique conflictuelle 3. Histoire, mythe et oralité 4. Quand le saint rencontre le sultan Justice sociale ou noblesse personnelle? 5. Les Maîtres de la possession Justice, belligérance et médiation 6. Le shrīf et la possédée Anti-mythe, contre-rituel et pouvoir 7. Le shaykh et le roi Mystique et politique Conclusion Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisThe Walls between Conflict and Peace discusses how walls are not merely static entities, but are in constant flux, subject to the movement of time. Walls often begin life as a line marking a radical division, but then become an area, that is to say a border, within which function civil and political societies, national and supranational societies. Such changes occur because over time cooperation between populations produces an active quest for peace, which is therefore a peace in constant movement. These are the concepts and lines of political development analysed in the book. The first part of the book deals with political walls and how they evolve into borders, or even disappear. The second part discusses possible and actual walls between empires, and also walls which may take shape within present-day empires. The third part analyses various ways of being of walls between and within states: Berlin, the Vatican State and Italy, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, Belfast, Northern European Countries, Gorizia and Nova Gorica, the USA and Mexico. In addition, discussion centres on a possible new Iron Curtain between the two Mediterranean shores and new and different walls within the EU. The last part of the book looks at how walls and borders change as a result of cooperation between the communities on either side of them. The book takes on particular relevance in the present circumstances of the proliferation of walls between empires and states and within single states, but it also analyses processes of conflict and peace which come about as a result of walls. Contributors are: Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Melania-Gabriela Ciot, Hastings Donnan, Anneli Ute Gabanyi, Alberto Gasparini, Maria Hadjipavlou, Max Haller, Neil Jarman, Thomas Lunden, Domenico Mogavero, Alejandro Palma, Dennis Soden.Trade Review"We can say with certainty that the book "The Walls between Conflict and the World" is becoming particularly relevant in the current conditions of the spread of walls between empires and states, including within one state. In parallel, the book analyzes the processes of conflict and peace that occur as a result of the construction of walls." [English translation, original review in Russian] - Yuri Sidelnikov, in: International Futures Research Academy (IFRA), Russian Division — MAIB, 17 February 2017Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables and Graphs Foreword List of Contributors Introduction. Walls: ways of being, ways of functioning, ways of being transformed Alberto Gasparini PART 1: WALLS DIVIDING, WALLS UNITING 1. Walls dividing, walls uniting: Peace in fusion, peace in separation Alberto Gasparini PART 2: MACRO WALLS AND MACRO NETWORKS 2. Why empires build walls: The new Iron Curtain between Africa and Europe Max Haller 3. The Enlargement process and the “Dividing lines of Europe” Melania-Gabriela Ciot 4. Are walls a National Security issue? A view from the United States-Mexican border Dennis Soden and Alejandro Palma PART 3: STATE, SECURITY AND ETHNIC-POLITICAL WALLS 5. The Berlin wall Anneli Ute Gabany 6. Vatican City-Italy wall: Consolidating social and political peace Domenico Mogavero 7. The “crossing” along the divide: The Cypriot experience Maria Hadjipavlou 8. Israel-Palestine: Concrete fences and fluid borders Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti 9. Ordinary everyday walls: Normalising exception in segregated Belfast Hastings Donnan and Neil Jarman PART 4: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE WALL? 10. European twin cities: Models, examples and problems of formal and informal co-operation Thomas Lundén 11. Scenario for the new town Gorizia/Gorica Alberto Gasparini Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSociologist-lawyer Larry D. Barnett advances the macrosociological thesis that, in nations that are structurally complex and democratically governed, concepts and doctrines of law on society-central social activities are fashioned by society-level conditions, not by particular (or even prominent) individuals. Because a substantial body of social science research has found that law in a modern nation does not have a large, permanent effect on the frequency of such activities, the book contends that the content of law on the activities is a product, not a determinant, of the society in which the law exists. Explaining Law bolsters this contention with several original studies, and illustrates types of quantitative evidence that can be used to build a macrosociological theory of law.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface MACROSOCIOLOGY AND LAW Chapter 1. A Macrosociological Approach to Concepts and Doctrines of Law 1. Social Science and Law a. The Study of Law b. A Macrosociological Framework for Law c. A Note of Caution 2. Law-Targeted Activities a. Crime b. Discrimination 3. Analysis United States Chapter 2. Law on Abortion 1. Introduction a. Societal Causes of the Demand for Therapeutic Abortion b. Measures of a Societal Need for Therapeutic Abortion 2. A Study of the Effect of State-Level Variables on State Abortion Law a. Design of the Study b. Findings c. Summary 3. Macrosociological Theory and the Institution of Law a. Functionalism Theory and the Concept of Societal Need b. Social Forces and U.S. Law on Therapeutic Abortion c. Functionalism Theory and U.S. Law on Therapeutic Abortion Chapter 3. "Three-Strikes" Law 1. Crime and Law in Society a. "Three-Strikes" Law b. Societal Pressure 2. A Study of State-Level Attributes and "Three-Strikes" Law a. Study Design b. Data Analysis 3. Discussion Europe Chapter 4. Law on Divorce in Western Europe 1. A Macrosociological Framework for Law a. The Framework in Brief b. A Case Study 2. Societal Benefits of Marriage 3. Law on Divorce in Europe a. Law on Divorce as a Macrosociological Phenomenon b. Research Design c. Data Analysis: Preliminary Matters d. Data Analysis: Findings e. Examination and Assessment of Findings 4. Review of the Study and Its Implications 5. Law as a Societal Institution Chapter 5. Mutual Fund Regulation in Europe 1. Mutual Funds and Law in the United States 2. Assets and Numbers of Mutual Funds Worldwide 3. A Macrosociological Perspective on Law a. A Macrosociological Framework b. Section 3(c)1) of the Investment Company Act 4. Jurisdiction Characteristics and Law on Mutual Funds in European Nations a. Variables and Data b. Data Analysis 5. Conclusion MACROSOCIOLOGY, LAW, AND SOCIETAL PROBLEMS Chapter 6. The Social Footing of the Great Recession 1. The Great Recession, Economics, and Sociology 2. Macrosociology and Social Values 3. Macrosociology and Law 4. Pre-Recession Change in Social Values 5. Pre-Recession Economic Manifestations of the Change in Values a. Human Capital b. Personal Debt 6. Pre-Recession Social Manifestations of the Change in Values a. Premarital Sexual Intercourse among Minors b. Marijuana Use 7. Aftermath of the Great Recession FINAL COMMENTS Chapter 7. Moving Forward 1. Introduction 2. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a. Title VII and Race Discrimination b. A Macrosociological Approach to Title VII c. The Impact of Title VII on Race Discrimination in Employment d. Societal Causes of Title VII 3. The Contribution of Other Disciplines to Explaining the Content of Law a. Sex Differences in the Human Brain b. Sex-Segregated Schooling 4. A Final Word Index Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the social, institutional and cultural setting of medical practices in the medieval town of Montpellier which boasted one of the first universities of the middle ages and a famous school of medicine. Some of its most celebrated masters and their medical works have been thoroughly studied but few of them try to put these in context with a thriving urban community of merchants and craftsmen that were at the core of the city council. Their concurrent efforts will endow Montpellier of a rich health care system featuring not only the university masters but also the city’s barber-surgeons and apothecaries. Their collective fate is revealed here in an integrated picture of health and society in the middle ages.Table of ContentsTable des illustrations ix Remerciements xi Abréviations et conventions xiii Introduction 1 Préambule: Montpellier, Xe-XVe siècles 16 Partie 1: Le milieu de la santé à Montpellier : contexte institutionnel 1 Les médecins à travers les statuts de l’école de médecine (1220–1360) 25 Une premiere phase (fin XIIe–milieu XIVe) 26 Une deuxieme phase (1360–1500) 69 2 Les chirurgiens, les barbiers 88 La chirurgie scolastique a Montpellier 91 Les chirurgiens dans la ville 103 Les statuts des barbiers-chirurgiens 106 La chirurgie a l’Universite 116 3 Les épiciers, les apothicaires 120 Le sement des epiciers-apothicaires 122 Une supplique pour l’independance du metier 126 Partie 2: Cursus et carrières 4 Cursus et carrières des médecins 135 Le mentorat 135 Les medecins juifs et l’apprentissage de la medecine 142 Cheminements et carrieres 144 La pratique aupres des grands: les cours, lieux d’echanges intellectuels 158 L’ecriture ou la didactique de la medecine 171 La traduction a Montpellier 189 5 Apprentissage et établissement des métiers de la santé 222 Apprentissage et pratique des barbiers et chirurgiens 222 Apprentissage et pratique des apothicaires 231 Partie 3: Pratiques de soins et santé publique 6 Les praticiens au service de la ville 247 Quelques elements d’historiographie 248 Hopitaux et charite a Montpellier XIIe-XVIe siecles 252 La ville et l’organisation sanitaire 259 7 La peste et la lèpre Deux préoccupations majeures du consulat 279 La lepre 279 L’examen de ≪ leprosite ≫ et la ville de Montpellier 293 La peste a Montpellier 303 Partie 4: Économie et société 8 Le statut économique des intervenants de la santé 333 Evaluation des patrimoines 333 Evaluation des activites economiques 355 9 Sociabilité du milieu de la santé à Montpellier 375 Les solidarites familiales 377 Les solidarites associatives 394 10 La médecine dans les marges 423 Enseignement et pratique de la medecine 423 Montpellier et les sciences marginales 434 Conclusion 476 Appendice: Procès de Gaucelm Gracie contre les maîtres de l’université des médecins de Montpellier 489 Annexe I: Rotation des lectures à l’Université des médecins de Montpellier (1488–1500) 507 Annexe II: Registres notariés 512 Annexe III: Consuls du métier de barbier auprès du consulat de 1353 à 1422 515 Sources et bibliographie 517 Index 583

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