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Book SynopsisTelevision is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. Examines changes that took place in programming, such as the rapid adoption of cable, the proliferation of content providers, the development of niche marketing, the introduction of high-definition television, the blurring of traditional genres, and the creation of new formats like reality-based programming Argues that television programmes of the 1990s afforded viewers a symbolic resource for negotiating the psychological challenges associated with the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age Explores the ways in which television provided viewers with tools for coming to terms with their fears about living in the fast-paced , increasingly diverse, information-laden society of the 90s Trade Review“In The Small Screen, Brian L. Ott explores how US television of the 1990s met the Information Age. With theoretical clarity and acute critical analysis of content and form in the television experience, Ott illustrates how some Americans embraced the future through hyperconscious television while others celebrated the past through nostalgia. A breakthrough study.” Thomas W. Benson, Pennsylvania State University “Brian L. Ott’s book is accessible to students and valuable for professional scholars. It integrates a wide range of contemporary scholarship at a high level of sophistication without ever falling into jargon or postmodern dogma. This volume will be cutting edge in the rhetorical study of television.” Barry Brummett, University of Texas-Austin "...ultimately what is pleasing about Ott's book is its willingness to take television seriously…" M/C Reviews “Ott…hints at the coming identity crisis as the connected age replaces the information age. Summing Up: Recommended.” Choice “Ott’s distinctions between hyperconscious and nostalgic programming serve as fine distinctions for considering the cultural significance of television.” PsycCritiquesTable of ContentsContents. Preface. 1. Television and Social Change. The Times They Are a-Changin’. Television as Public Discourse. 2. Life in the Information Age. The Information Explosion. Society through the Lens of Technocapitalism. Social Anxieties in the Information Age. 3. Hyperconscious Television. Embracing ‘the Future’: The Attitude of Yes. The Simpsons as Exemplar. Symbolic Equipments in Hyperconscious TV. 4. Nostalgia Television. Celebrating ‘the Past’: The Attitude of No. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Exemplar. Symbolic Equipments in Nostalgia TV. 5. Television and the Future. (Re)Viewing the Small Screen. Life and Television in the Twenty-First Century. The Next Great Paradigm Shift?. References. Index

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Book SynopsisLatinas in Popular Culture explores the way Latina representations have exploded onto mainstream popular culture--and into American consciousness.Trade Review“It is destined to quickly become a landmark text and valuable archival resource for all scholars of media and popular culture, regardless of specialization, but will be of particular interest to those with interests in Latina/o/x Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Girl Studies, and Disney Studies.” - Global Media Journal –German Edition, Vol. 11 No. 2 (2021): Autumn/Winter 2021Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1 Continuities and Ruptures: The Gender of Latinidad 1 2 Spitfire Transition Tales: The Production of a Career 25 3 An Unambivalent Structure of Ambivalence: Disney’s Production of Latina Princesses 73 4 Latina/o Media Utopias: The Ideal Place or No Place 117 References 163 Index 183

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a great mind. Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, politics and political theory, writing and acting, religious controversy and issues of faith, skepticism and misanthropy, and closure Explores Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a great mind Trade Review"Bevington sees a development in how important Shakespeare felt certain topics were, and so the structure of the book is both chronological and thematic, beginning with the early romances and ending with the dark eschatology of the last plays." (English, December 2010) "A personal and passionate reading of the author, unwilling to look for conclusions where there are none. Humane, wise and almost infuriatingly judicious, Shakespeare's Ideas celebrates the plurality inherent to Shakespeare's works and the expansive mind behind them." (Times Literary Supplement, February 2009) Bevington's newest book wears its considerable erudition lightly and, for the most part, well. Bevington (Univ. of Chicago) begins by pointing out that one cannot know the thoughts of Shakespeare the man, but that the plays and poems, looked at as a whole, do present a kind of philosophy--one of balance and moderation. Chapters on sex and gender, politics, writing, religion, and other topics all suggest that though Shakespeare created characters with extreme and wide-ranging views, the world of the plays (and thus perhaps of Shakespeare himself) rewards compassion, understanding, forgiveness, duty, and above all, love. In general, this is not a book for scholars; Bevington does not offer highly theoretical readings or bring up scholarly debates about meaning and textuality. But his immense knowledge of the plays and the era allow him to present complex ideas in an engaging, completely readable manner that will appeal to all readers, no matter their background. Though it offers nothing new to those who study the plays for a living, everyone else will find it a masterpiece of thoughtful investigation into the plays. Summing Up: Essential. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers. -- A. Castaldo, Widener University (Choice, February 2009) "It's an absorbing journey, and one that will fascinate both general readers and serious scholars alike." (Yorkshire Evening Post, October 2008)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix 1 A Natural Philosopher 1 2 Lust in Action Shakespeare's Ideas on Sex and Gender 15 3 What is Honour? Shakespeare's Ideas on Politics and Political Theory 42 4 Hold the Mirror Up to Nature Shakespeare's Ideas on Writing and Acting 74 5 What Form of Prayer Can Serve My Turn? Shakespeare’s Ideas on Religious Controversy and Issues of Faith 106 6 Is Man No More Than This? Shakespeare's Ideas on Scepticism, Doubt, Stoicism, Pessimism, Misanthropy 143 7 Here Our Play Has Ending Ideas of Closure in the Late Plays 177 8 Credo 213 Further Reading 218 Index 227

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Book SynopsisShakespeare was not, strictly speaking, a philosopher. That is, he did not write essays or treatises arguing philosophical positions or proposing an all-embracing philosophical scheme.Trade Review"Bevington sees a development in how important Shakespeare felt certain topics were, and so the structure of the book is both chronological and thematic, beginning with the early romances and ending with the dark eschatology of the last plays." (English, December 2010) “The book ranges across almost the entire canon, bringing together telling moments from an array of texts, but pausing long enough on particular plays to offer nuanced readings. The undergraduate or general reader should enjoy this fluent and well-paced tour through the major plays, and will get a good sense, especially in the first half of the book, of important political, religious and dramatic contexts. The carefully chosen bibliography should stimulate students to explore the ideas summarized here in considerably more detail.” (Times Higher Education Supplement, December 2008) "Bevington's newest book wears its considerable erudition lightly and, for the most part, well. Bevington (Univ. of Chicago) begins by pointing out that one cannot know the thoughts of Shakespeare the man, but that the plays and poems, looked at as a whole, do present a kind of philosophy--one of balance and moderation. Chapters on sex and gender, politics, writing, religion, and other topics all suggest that though Shakespeare created characters with extreme and wide-ranging views, the world of the plays (and thus perhaps of Shakespeare himself) rewards compassion, understanding, forgiveness, duty, and above all, love. In general, this is not a book for scholars; Bevington does not offer highly theoretical readings or bring up scholarly debates about meaning and textuality. But his immense knowledge of the plays and the era allow him to present complex ideas in an engaging, completely readable manner that will appeal to all readers, no matter their background. Though it offers nothing new to those who study the plays for a living, everyone else will find it a masterpiece of thoughtful investigation into the plays." (Choice, February 2009) "It's an absorbing journey, and one that will fascinate both general readers and serious scholars alike." (Yorkshire Evening Post, October 2008)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix 1 A Natural Philosopher 1 2 Lust in Action Shakespeare's Ideas on Sex and Gender 15 3 What is Honour? Shakespeare's Ideas on Politics and Political Theory 42 4 Hold the Mirror Up to Nature Shakespeare's Ideas on Writing and Acting 74 5 What Form of Prayer Can Serve My Turn? Shakespeare’s Ideas on Religious Controversy and Issues of Faith 106 6 Is Man No More Than This? Shakespeare's Ideas on Scepticism, Doubt, Stoicism, Pessimism, Misanthropy 143 7 Here Our Play Has Ending Ideas of Closure in the Late Plays 177 8 Credo 213 Further Reading 218 Index 227

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Book SynopsisCultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present a rich overview of major sociological themes and the various empirical applications of cultural sociology. A timely introductory overview to this increasingly significant field which provides invaluable summaries of key studies and approaches within cultural sociology Clearly written and designed, with accessible summaries of thematic topics, covering race, class, politics, religion, media, fashion, and music International experts contribute chapters in their field of research, including a chapter by David Chaney, a founder of cultural sociology Offers a unified set of theoretical and methodological tools for those wishing to apply a cultural sociological approach in their work Trade Review“David Chaney’s magisterial opening provides an authoritative framework and background for these introductions to key subtopics within this important area of sociology.” (Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 May 2012) Table of ContentsNotes on Authors Preface Glossary of Terms Part I: Theory and Method 1 Starting to Write a History of the Present Day: Culture and Sociology David Chaney 2 Defining Cultural Sociology 3 Methodological Issues in Cultural Sociology Part II: New Cultural Identities 4 Class, Culture and Social Difference 5 Gender and Sexuality 6 Racism, ‘Race’ and Difference 7 Bodies and Identities Part III: Fragmented Ideology 8 Politics and Culture 9 Globalization 10 Culture and Religion Part IV: Leisure and Lifestyle 11 Popular Music: Place, Identity, Community 12 Fashion Logics and the Cultural Economy: The Social Power of Tastes, Aesthetics and Style 13 Food, Eating and Culture 14 Media, Culture and Public Life References Index

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Book SynopsisCultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present a rich overview of major sociological themes and the various empirical applications of cultural sociology. A timely introductory overview to this increasingly significant field which provides invaluable summaries of key studies and approaches within cultural sociology Clearly written and designed, with accessible summaries of thematic topics, covering race, class, politics, religion, media, fashion, and music International experts contribute chapters in their field of research, including a chapter by David Chaney, a founder of cultural sociology Offers a unified set of theoretical and methodological tools for those wishing to apply a cultural sociological approach in their work Trade Review“David Chaney’s magisterial opening provides an authoritative framework and background for these introductions to key subtopics within this important area of sociology.” (Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 May 2012) Table of ContentsNotes on Authors vii Preface ix Glossary of Terms xiii Part I: Theory and Method 1 Starting toWrite a History of the Present Day: Culture and Sociology 3 David Chaney 2 Defining Cultural Sociology 19 3 Methodological Issues in Cultural Sociology 31 Part II: New Cultural Identities 4 Class, Culture and Social Difference 47 5 Gender and Sexuality 63 6 Racism, ‘Race’ and Difference 77 7 Bodies and Identities 91 Part III: Fragmented Ideology 8 Politics and Culture 107 9 Globalization 121 10 Culture and Religion 133 Part IV: Leisure and Lifestyle 11 Popular Music: Place, Identity, Community 151 12 Fashion Logics and the Cultural Economy: The Social Power of Tastes, Aesthetics and Style 163 13 Food, Eating and Culture 177 14 Media, Culture and Public Life 189 References 201 Index 219

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Book SynopsisPsychologists, political scientists, and experts in election law present a multidisciplinary perspective on voting.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Democracy, Voting, and Disenfranchisement in the United States: A Social Psychological Perspective 431Kevin Lanning NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES: THE FUNCTIONS OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION The Psychology of Enfranchisement: Engaging and Fostering Inclusion of Members through Voting and Decision-Making Procedures 447Celia M. Gonzalez and Tom R. Tyler A Game-Theoretic View of Voting 467Joachim I. Brueger and Melissa Acevedo Electoral Simultaneity: Expressing Equal Respect 487Dennis F. Thompson DIFFERENTIAL PERSPECTIVES: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VOTER The Psychological and Institutional Determinants of Early Voting 503Paul Gronke and Daniel Krantz Toffey Why Do People Vote? A Psychological Analysis of the Causes of Voter Turnout 525Joshua Harder and Jon A. Krosnick Beliefs about Deliberation: Personal and Normative Dimensions 551Eugene Borgida, Keilah A. Worth, Brad Lippmann, Damla Ergun, and James Farr DYNAMIC PERSPECTIVES: THE ROOTS OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION Political Participation and Cumulative Disadvantage: The Impact of Economic and Social Hardship on Young Citizens 571Julianna Sandell Pacheco and Eric Pultzer The "Antidemocratic Personality" Revisited: A Cross-NationalInvestigation of Working-Class Authoritarianism 595Jaime L. Napier and John T. Jost Race and Redistricting: What the Print Media Conveys to the Public about the Role of Race 619Damla Ergun, Grace Deason, Eugene Borgida, and Guy-Uriel Charles COMMENTARY Will Democracy Win? 639Gina V. Caprara 2007 SPSSI PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Introduction to Irene Hanson Frieze's SPSSI Presidential Address 661Marybeth Shinn Social Policy, Feminism, and Research on Violence in Close Relationships 665Irene H. Frieze

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Book SynopsisThe unique analysis of art house alongside discussion of commercial films from the African continent and the African diaspora presented here offer a fresh perspective on viewers experiences that highlights aesthetic and political issues.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1 AfricaWatch: Parameters and Contexts 1 Part I Space 33 2 The Postcolonial City: Education of the Spectator in Harrikrisna Anenden's The Cathedral 35 3 Framing the City: Africanizing Viewer and Viewed through Angle, Distance, Genre, and Movement 55 Part II Character 77 4 Models of African Femininity 79 5 African Masculinity: "We Don't Need Another Hero" 113 6 Revolutionary Personhood: Revolutionize the Spectator, or Stop,Thief! 133 Part III Narrative 155 7 Documentary Film: Situating a Style 157 8 African Narration: Narration of Africa 172 9 Jean-Marie Teno: Creating an African Repertoire 187 10 Conclusion: Inside/Outside or How to Make a Film about Africa Today 216 Filmography 234 References 238 Glossary 246 Index 251

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an international snapshot of communication in healthcare settings and examines how policies, procedures and technological developments influence day to day practice. Brings together a series of papers describing features of healthcare interaction in settings in Australasia, the U.S.A, continental Europe and the UK Contains original research data from previously under-studied settings including professions allied to medicine, telephone-mediated interactions and secondary care Contributors draw on the established conversation analytic literature on healthcare interaction and broaden its scope by applying it to professionals other than doctors in primary care Examines how issues relating to policy, procedure or technology are negotiated and managed throughout daily healthcare practice Trade Review"In their introductory chapter, the editors provide an overview of CA research in the medical field so far and explicate how they think such research should be devel¬oped further, as noted above . . . I do hope, and expect, that the collection can function as a stimulus to indeed extend the focus of ‘medical' studies using CA and ethnomethodology in the ways demonstrated here." (Discourse Studies, 2011) "In this sense this book offers a great deal of inspiration to those interested in health communication from both methodological and practice perspectives." (Sociology of Health & Illness, 2011)Table of ContentsList of Contributors. 1 Beyond 'doctor and patient': developments in the study of healthcare interactions (Alison Pilnick, Jon Hindmarsh and Virginia Teas Gill). 2 Dialling for donations: practices and actions in the telephone solicitation of human tissues (T. Elizabeth Weathersbee and Douglas W. Maynard). 3 Managing medical advice seeking in calls to Child Health Line (Carly W. Butler, Susan Danby, Michael Emmison and Karen Thorpe). 4 Practitioners’ accounts for treatment actions and recommendations in physiotherapy: when do they occur, how are they structured, what do they do? (Ruth Parry). 5 'I've put weight on cos I've bin inactive, cos I've 'ad me knee done': moral work in the obesity clinic (Helena Webb). 6 Progressivity and participation: children’s management of parental assistance in paediatric chronic pain encounters (Ignasi Clemente). 7 Embedding instruction in practice: contingency and collaboration during surgical training (Marcus Sanchez Svensson, Christian Heath and Paul Luff). 8 Creating history: documents and patient participation in nurse-patient interviews (Aled Jones). 9 Listening to what is said – transcribing what is heard: the impact of speech recognition technology (SRT) on the practice of medical transcription (MT) (Gary C. David, Angela Cora Garcia, Anne Warfi eld Rawls and Donald Chand). Index.

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India s globalization in the twenty-first century.Trade Review"This volume provides a useful framework for and discussion of the complexity and range of recently published research on the anthropologies of the Indian subcontinent in the era of globalization . . . Summing up: Essential. All libraries supporting graduate and undergraduate programs in anthropology, sociology, and history." (Choice, 1July 2011)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Isabelle Clark-Decès Part I Caste and Class in Liberal India 23 1 Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes, and Classes 25 Christophe Z. Guilmoto 2 Caste, Class, and Untouchability 45 Robert Deliège 3 Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India 62 Craig Jeffrey 4 The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans 80 C. J. Fuller 5 Caste and Collective Memory in South India 98 Zoé E. Headley Part II Cities, Cosmopolitan Styles, and Urban Critics 115 6 “How to Sit, How to Stand”: Bodily Practice and the New Urban Middle Class 117 Meredith Lindsay McGuire 7 Global Dancing in Kolkata 137 Pallabi Chakravorty 8 Yoga, Modernity, and the Middle Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire 154 Joseph S. Alter 9 Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras 169 Jenny Huberman 10 Crafts, Artisans, and the Nation-State in India 186 Mira Mohsini 11 Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City 202 Ajay Gandhi Part III Cultures and Religion in the Making 223 12 Optic-Clash: Modes of Visuality in India 225 Shaila Bhatti and Christopher Pinney 13 Hindu–Muslim Relations and the “War on Terror” 241 Philippa Williams 14 Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine 260 Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi 15 Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency 277 Mathew N. Schmalz Part IV Communalism, Nationalism, and Terrorism 295 16 The Politics of Communalism and Caste 297 Ornit Shani 17 Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Reexamining Gender, and Nonliberal Politics 313 Tarini Bedi 18 India Burning: The Maoist Revolution 332 Alpa Shah Part V Law, Governance, and Civil Society 353 19 Courts of Law and Legal Practice 355 Daniela Berti 20 Law and Order: Police Encounter Killings and Routinized Political Violence 371 Beatrice Jauregui 21 Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective 389 John Harriss 22 Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi 407 Yaffa Truelove and Emma Mawdsley 23 Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai’s Settlements 426 Nikhil Anand Part VI From Global India to the Ethnography of Change 443 24 Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia 445 Leo Coleman 25 India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives 464 Cecilia Van Hollen 26 Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness 482 Sarah Pinto 27 Ways of Aging 500 Sarah Lamb 28 The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives 517 Isabelle Clark-Decès Index 536

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Book SynopsisProvides original and critical analysis of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. This book examines the different disciplines that address human affairs - from sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology to the humanities in general - to understand their common ground.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Human about Human Affairs? I SocialIty: The Problem of Definition 1 The Urgency of Defining the Social 2 Society as a Basic Fact 3 Dependence and Autonomy 4 The Certainty of the Social as the Basic Fact 5 The Sociality of Agency 6 Models, Theory, and Theorizing 7 Theorizing 8 Historicism and Its Alternative 9 Social Facts, Situations, and Moral Stakes II Social Action 10 Can “the Social” Be a Proper Object of Theory? 11 Further Problems in Theorizing the Social 12 Social Action as Action 13 The Self of the Actor 14 Self and Situation 15 Self and Agency 16 Social Action Reconsidered III Subjects and Situations 17 Overview 18 Causes of Failure in the Social Sciences 19 Objects and Their Subjects 20 The Positive Sense of “Situation” 21 Practices, Situations, and Inter-subjectivity 22 Criticism, Inter-subjectivity, and Collective Enunciation 23 Criticism and Human Affairs 24 Collective Enunciation 25 Subjectivity and Objectivity 26 Summary, Reprise, and Transition Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Michael Brown provides original and critical analysis of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. He examines the different disciplines that address human affairs--from sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology to the humanities in general--to understand their common ground. He probes the ways in which we investigate the meaning of individuality in a society for which individuals are not the agents of the activities in which they participate, and he develops a critical method for studying the relations among activities, objects, and situations. The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences restores the centrality of sociality to all disciplines that provide for and depend on the social dimension of human life. Ultimately, he establishes a theory of the unity of the human sciences that will surely make readers rethink the current state and future of theory in those fields for years to come. Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Human about Human Affairs? I SocialIty: The Problem of Definition 1 The Urgency of Defining the Social 2 Society as a Basic Fact 3 Dependence and Autonomy 4 The Certainty of the Social as the Basic Fact 5 The Sociality of Agency 6 Models, Theory, and Theorizing 7 Theorizing 8 Historicism and Its Alternative 9 Social Facts, Situations, and Moral Stakes II Social Action 10 Can “the Social” Be a Proper Object of Theory? 11 Further Problems in Theorizing the Social 12 Social Action as Action 13 The Self of the Actor 14 Self and Situation 15 Self and Agency 16 Social Action Reconsidered III Subjects and Situations 17 Overview 18 Causes of Failure in the Social Sciences 19 Objects and Their Subjects 20 The Positive Sense of “Situation” 21 Practices, Situations, and Inter-subjectivity 22 Criticism, Inter-subjectivity, and Collective Enunciation 23 Criticism and Human Affairs 24 Collective Enunciation 25 Subjectivity and Objectivity 26 Summary, Reprise, and Transition Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisPart of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series, Islam, Politics, Anthropology offers critical reflections on past and current studies of Islam and politics in anthropology and charts new analytical approaches to examining Islam in the post-9/11 world.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii 1 Benjamin Soares & Filippo Osella Islam, politics, anthropology 1 2 Samuli Schielke Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians 23 3 Hatsuki Aishima & Armando Salvatore Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of the intellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo 39 4 Magnus Marsden A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan 54 5 Kai Kresse Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery 72 6 Rosa De Jorio Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and the challenges of a Malian public sphere 91 7 Lara Deeb Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis 107 8 Julie McBrien Mukadas’s struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan 121 9 Irfan Ahmad Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi’s political thought and Islamism 138 10 Maimuna Huq Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions among Islamist women in Bangladesh 156 11 Daromir Rudnyckyj Market Islam in Indonesia 175 12 Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella Muslim entrepreneurs in public life between India and the Gulf: making good and doing good 194 13 Gregory Starrett Islam and the politics of enchantment 213 Index 231

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Book SynopsisCollective action is one of the core mechanisms of social change, and thus of major importance to social scientists, practitioners, and policy-makers. This book brings together recent insights on the social and psychological dynamics of collective action and social change, with contributions from around the world. The key theme in this book is that there is considerable diversity in collective action, and that understanding this diversity facilitates a better understanding of collective action and social change.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION. Introduction to the Social and Psychological Dynamics of Collective Action (Martijn van Zomeren and Aarti Iyer). COLLECTIVE ACTION BY LOW-STATUS GROUPS. Metaphors of Protest: A Classification of Motivations for Collective Action (Martijn van Zomeren and Russell Spears). Pathways to Collective Protest: Calculation, Identification, or Emotion? A Critical Analysis of the Role of Group-Based Anger in Social Movement Participation (Stefan St¨urmer and Bernd Simon). Collective Psychological Empowerment as a Model of Social Change:Researching Crowds and Power (John Drury and Steve Reicher). Collective Action-and Then What? (Winnifred R. Louis). Collective Action in Modern Times: How Modern Expressions of Prejudice Prevent Collective Action (Naomi Ellemers and Manuela Barreto). COLLECTIVE ACTION BY HIGH-STATUS GROUPS. Why Do the Privileged Resort to Oppression? A Look at Some Intragroup Factors (Tom Postmes and Laura G. E. Smith). Why Do Men and Women Challenge Gender Discrimination in the Workplace? The Role of Group Status and In-group Identification in Predicting Pathways to Collective Action (Aarti Iyer and Michelle K. Ryan). BEYOND STATUS: COLLECTIVE ACTION AROUND OPINIONS AND POLICY OPPOSITION. Context Matters: Explaining How and Why Mobilizing Context Influences Motivational Dynamics(Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Bert Klandermans, and Wilco W. van Dijk). Collective Action as the Material Expression of Opinion-Based Group Membership (Craig McGarty, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Emma F. Thomas,and Renata Bongiorno). COMMENTARY. The Next Generation of Collective Action Research (Stephen C. Wright).

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world.Trade ReviewElectronic review copy sent to Ancient West & East 9/4/14 (Leah A) US review list: Bryn Mawr Classical Review Classical Philology (occasional reviewer) American Journal of Ancient History (contributor) Classical Antiquity (contributor) Greek, Roman. And Byzantine Studies (contributor) Phoenix Classical Journal (contributor) ROW: Classical Review (occasional reviewer) Journal of Hellenic Studies Journal of Roman Studies Historia Latomus Gnomon Pallas Revue des Etudes greques Antichthon Reference Reviews THETable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv 1 Ethnicity: An Introduction 1Jeremy McInerney 2 Ethnicity and Language in the Ancient Mediterranean 17Harald Haarmann 3 Mediterranean Archaeology and Ethnicity 34A. Bernard Knapp 4 Ethnicity and World-Systems Analysis 50Thomas D. Hall 5 Ancient Ethnicity and Modern Identity 66Johannes Siapkas 6 Bronze Age Identities: From Social to Cultural and Ethnic Identity 82Kristian Kristiansen 7 Networks and Ethnogenesis 97Anna C. F. Collar 8 Ethnic Identities, Borderlands, and Hybridity 112Gary Reger 9 Hittites and Anatolian Ethnic Diversity 127Trevor R. Bryce 10 Hybridity, Hapiru, and the Archaeology of Ethnicity in Second Millennium BCE Western Asia 142Ann E. Killebrew 11 Ethnicity in Empire: Assyrians and Others 158Geoff Emberling 12 Achaemenids, Royal Power, and Persian Ethnicity 175Jennifer Gates-Foster 13 Nubian and Egyptian Ethnicity 194Stuart Tyson Smith 14 The Study of Greek Ethnic Identities 213Nino Luraghi 15 Ethnicity and Local Myth 228Angela Ganter, née Kühr 16 Autochthony in Ancient Greece 241James Roy 17 Ethnicity and the Stage 256Efi Papadodima 18 Ethnos and Koinon 270Emily Mackil 19 Messenia, Ethnic Identity, and Contingency 285Alexander Thein 20 Ethnicity and Geography 298Philip Kaplan 21 Black Sea Ethnicities 312Gocha R. Tsetskhladze 22 Greeks and Phoenicians in the Western Mediterranean 327Corinne Bonnet 23 Herodotus and Ethnicity 341Rosaria Vignolo Munson 24 Ethnicity and Representation 356S. Rebecca Martin 25 Ethnicity: Greeks, Jews, and Christians 376Aaron P. Johnson 26 Greek Ethnicity and the Second Sophistic 390Adam M. Kemezis 27 Ethnicity and the Etruscans 405Nancy T. de Grummond 28 Romans and Jews 423Erich S. Gruen 29 Romans and Italians 437Gary D. Farney 30 Roman Elite Ethnicity 455Parshia Lee-Stecum 31 Ethnicity in Roman Religion 470Jörg Rüpke 32 Ethnicity and Gender 483Kathryn Lomas 33 Ethnicity in the Roman Northwest 497Ursula Rothe 34 Lucanians and Southern Italy 514John W. Wonder 35 Who Are You? Africa and Africans 527Brent D. Shaw 36 Becoming Roman Again: Roman Ethnicity and Italian Identity 541Valentina Follo 37 Goths and Huns 555Walter Pohl Index 569

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Book SynopsisSmoking Geographies provides a research-led assessment of the impact of geographical factors on smoking. The contributors uncover how geography can show us not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control, providing deeper clarity on how smoking and tobacco is governed'. The text centres on one of the most important public health issues worldwide, and a major determinant of preventable mortality and morbidity in developed and developing countries Records the outcomes of a long-term research collaboration that brings a geographical lens to smoking behaviour Uncovers how geography can play a part in understanding not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control Provides a deeper understanding of how smoking and tobacco is governed', regarding where people may smoke, but also more subtle governance as a climate is produced in which smoking becomes denormalised' Brings both quantitative and qTable of ContentsAbout the Authors viSeries Editors’ Preface viiPreface viiiAcknowledgements ix1 Introduction 12 The Geo]epidemiology of an Addiction 163 The Economic Geography of Tobacco 504 Context Matters: Area Effects, Socio]economic Status and Smoking 895 Place]Based Practices: Pathways to Smoking Behaviour 1086 Smoking, Denormalisation and the Messy Terrain of Unintended Consequences 1287 Smoking Gateways: Burdens and Co]behaviours 1478 Place and Tobacco Regulation 1689 Conclusion 205References 223Index 277

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Book SynopsisSmoking Geographies provides a research-led assessment of the impact of geographical factors on smoking. The contributors uncover how geography can show us not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control, providing deeper clarity on how smoking and tobacco is governed'. The text centres on one of the most important public health issues worldwide, and a major determinant of preventable mortality and morbidity in developed and developing countries Records the outcomes of a long-term research collaboration that brings a geographical lens to smoking behaviour Uncovers how geography can play a part in understanding not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control Provides a deeper understanding of how smoking and tobacco is governed', regarding where people may smoke, but also more subtle governance as a climate is produced in which smoking becomes denormalised' Brings both quantitative and qTable of ContentsAbout the Authors viSeries Editors’ Preface viiPreface viiiAcknowledgements ix1 Introduction 12 The Geo]epidemiology of an Addiction 163 The Economic Geography of Tobacco 504 Context Matters: Area Effects, Socio]economic Status and Smoking 895 Place]Based Practices: Pathways to Smoking Behaviour 1086 Smoking, Denormalisation and the Messy Terrain of Unintended Consequences 1287 Smoking Gateways: Burdens and Co]behaviours 1478 Place and Tobacco Regulation 1689 Conclusion 205References 223Index 277

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Book SynopsisBy bringing attention to the way that ethnicity and race have been addressed in research on ageing and old age, with a focus on health inequalities, health and social care, intergenerational relationships and caregiving, this book proposes how research can be developed in an ethnicity astute and diversity informed manner.Table of ContentsPart 1: Setting the stage for theorising; Introduction; Population aging and international migration; Ethnicity and race: from essentialism to constructionism; Part II: Theorising via a scoping review: what we know and need to find out; Literature on Health Inequalities; Literature on Health and Social Care ; Literature on Social Relations and Caregiving; A new agenda: where we are at and need to head; Appendix: how the scoping review was conducted.

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Book SynopsisUses a wide range of international case studies form the Global South to examine the stark repercussions of colonial conquest on children's lives and childhood policy today. Liebel shows the work that we must do to decolonize childhoods globally and ensure that children's rights are better promoted and protected.Trade Review"This is a seminal book which works as a textbook, a teaching resource and a highly significant contribution to knowledge. It is characterized by authority and enthusiasm." Heather Montgomery, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I ~ How to Understand Childhoods in the Postcolonial Context Childhoods From Postcolonial Perspectives Colonialism and Colonization of Childhoods Postcolonial Theories From the Global South Part II ~ Children Under Colonial and Postcolonial Rule State violence against children in British Empire and settler colonies Racist civilization of children in Latin America Pitfalls of postcolonial education and child policies in Africa Part III ~ Children’s Rights and the Decolonization of Childhoods Postcolonial Dilemmas of Children’s Rights Beyond Paternalism: Plea for the De-Paternalization of Children’s Protection and Participation Social Movements of Children As Citizenship From Below Epilogue: Childhoods and Children’s Rights Beyond Postcolonial Paternalism

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Book SynopsisThis book examines for the first time the exclusionary nature of prevailing political ideologies. Bringing together theory, practice and the relationship between participation, political ideology and social welfare, it offers a detailed critique of how the crucial move to more participatory approaches may be achieved.Table of ContentsPart 1: Exploring Ideology; Ideology: An Exclusionary Idea?; Ideology and Us; Imposing Ideology; Part 2: Reclaiming Participation; A Different Approach to Ideology; Participation: Challenging the Barriers; Part 3: Towards Participatory Ideology; Learning to Work Together: The Key to Inclusive Involvement; Developing our Own Organisations; Key Concepts to Participatory Ideology; Transforming Political Ideology.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the failings of the prison system in many countries and offers positive pointers for the future. It shows the way forward will be through initiatives such as Justice Reinvestment and in the Human Development model.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The world of prisons 3. Prisons of the world 4. International Centre for Prison Studies 5. Women: the forgotten minority 6. The legacy of the Gulag 7. European Committee for the Prevention of Torture 8. Regional contrasts: Cambodia and Japan 9. Latin America: the iron fist or the New Model? 10. Barbados and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 11. Sub-Saharan Africa: an expensive colonial legacy 12. The Jericho Monitoring Mission 13. Towards ‘a better way’

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Book SynopsisCities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanizationThe fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world's tallest building is in Dubai; the 2022 World Cup in soccer will be played in fantastic Qatar facilities; Saudi Arabia is building five new cities from scratch; the Louvre, the Guggenheim and the Sorbonne, as well as many American and European universities, all have handsome outposts and campuses in the region. Such initiatives bespeak strategies to diversify economies and pursue grand ambitions across the Earth. Shining special light on Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Dohawhere the dynamics of extreme urbanization are so strongly evidentthe authors of The New Arab Urban trace what happens when money is plentiful, regulation weak, and labor conditions severe. Just how do authorities in such settings reconcile goals of oft-claimed civic betterment with hyper-segregation and radical inequality? How do thTrade Review"The book offers an invaluable survey of the topic, and a guide to a vast literature on this increasingly important region that is largely absent from urban studies as a whole." -- Urban Studies"The region’s urbanization has had a profound global influence on the worlds of architecture and urban planning, and on what urban megaprojects are more broadly expected to do in an economy or society... The Gulf, as [the contributors] claim in The New Arab Urban, is not just a passive recipient of urban policy, but a key site of production." -- Public Books"With a firm perspective on regional context and urban specificity, this collection of original essays offers a range of grounded conceptual narratives on architecture, urban planning, consumption, work and daily life in a group of cities––specifically, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai and Masdar––that embody the phenomenon that is ‘the new Arab urban’." * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Despite the academic interest that the spectacular new 'cities' in the Arab Gulf have garnered lately, this fascinating book argues that our tried-and-tested theories fall short in understanding them or learning from their rapid urbanization. The various essays propose different approaches to considering this old/new form of urbanity, but, together with the editors critical conclusion, expand the domain of urban study itself to draw concepts like mobility, transience, complexity, hybridity, contradiction, spontaneity, and even unpredictability into its interpretive paradigms. The book simply aims to achieve for the study of the 'Gulf city' the same kind of perspectival adjustment that Janet Abu Lughod accomplished for the 'Islamic city.'" -- Nasser Rabbat,Author of Mamluk History Through Architecture: Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt"Molotch and Ponzini promise us 'analytical shock therapy,' and that is what this book delivers. Inspired by Learning from Las Vegas, they ask us to set aside preconceptions, showing that cities really can be created with land monopoly and a potent mix of spectacle, inequality and authoritarianism. Whats more, these are not one-offs, but test beds for new globalizing forms of city building, as they are emulated and exported. There is urgent need to understand them, and for disquiet." -- Michael Storper,Co-author of The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles"The New Arab Urban is a magisterial account of the densely settled Arab Gulf... a memorable work on the urbanization of the Arab Gulf, one that will be indispensable to future research and scholarship on the region." * Global Policy Journal *

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Book SynopsisCities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanizationThe fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world's tallest building is in Dubai; the 2022 World Cup in soccer will be played in fantastic Qatar facilities; Saudi Arabia is building five new cities from scratch; the Louvre, the Guggenheim and the Sorbonne, as well as many American and European universities, all have handsome outposts and campuses in the region. Such initiatives bespeak strategies to diversify economies and pursue grand ambitions across the Earth.Shining special light on Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Dohawhere the dynamics of extreme urbanization are so strongly evidentthe authors of The New Arab Urban trace what happens when money is plentiful, regulation weak, and labor conditions severe. Just how do authorities in such settings reconcile goals of oft-claimed civic betterment with hyper-segregation and radTrade Review"The book offers an invaluable survey of the topic, and a guide to a vast literature on this increasingly important region that is largely absent from urban studies as a whole." -- Urban Studies"The region’s urbanization has had a profound global influence on the worlds of architecture and urban planning, and on what urban megaprojects are more broadly expected to do in an economy or society... The Gulf, as [the contributors] claim in The New Arab Urban, is not just a passive recipient of urban policy, but a key site of production." -- Public Books"With a firm perspective on regional context and urban specificity, this collection of original essays offers a range of grounded conceptual narratives on architecture, urban planning, consumption, work and daily life in a group of cities––specifically, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai and Masdar––that embody the phenomenon that is ‘the new Arab urban’." * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Despite the academic interest that the spectacular new 'cities' in the Arab Gulf have garnered lately, this fascinating book argues that our tried-and-tested theories fall short in understanding them or learning from their rapid urbanization. The various essays propose different approaches to considering this old/new form of urbanity, but, together with the editors critical conclusion, expand the domain of urban study itself to draw concepts like mobility, transience, complexity, hybridity, contradiction, spontaneity, and even unpredictability into its interpretive paradigms. The book simply aims to achieve for the study of the 'Gulf city' the same kind of perspectival adjustment that Janet Abu Lughod accomplished for the 'Islamic city.'" -- Nasser Rabbat,Author of Mamluk History Through Architecture: Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt"Molotch and Ponzini promise us 'analytical shock therapy,' and that is what this book delivers. Inspired by Learning from Las Vegas, they ask us to set aside preconceptions, showing that cities really can be created with land monopoly and a potent mix of spectacle, inequality and authoritarianism. Whats more, these are not one-offs, but test beds for new globalizing forms of city building, as they are emulated and exported. There is urgent need to understand them, and for disquiet." -- Michael Storper,Co-author of The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles"The New Arab Urban is a magisterial account of the densely settled Arab Gulf... a memorable work on the urbanization of the Arab Gulf, one that will be indispensable to future research and scholarship on the region." * Global Policy Journal *

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Book SynopsisDuring the last twenty years, public interest in Islam and how Muslims express their religious identity in Western societies has grown exponentially. In parallel, the study of Islam in the Canadian academy has grown in a number of fields since the 1970s, reflecting a diverse range of scholarship, positionalities, and politics. Yet, academic research on Muslims in Canada has not been systematically assessed.In Producing Islam(s) in Canada, scholars from a wide range of disciplines come together to explore what is at stake regarding portrayals of Islam(s) and Muslims in academic scholarship. Given the centrality of representations of Canadian Muslims in current public policy and public imaginaries, which effects how all Canadians experience religious diversity, this analysis of knowledge production comes at a crucial time.Table of ContentsPreface Amir Hussain Acknowledgments General Introduction: Producing Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Melanie Adrian Section 1: Examining Knowledge Production on Islam Epistemologies of the “Muslim Question” in Europe: On the Politics of Knowledge Production in a Minefield Schirin Amir-Moazami Research Funding and the Production of Knowledge about Islam: The Case of SSHRC Aaron W. Hughes Creating Ecologies of Knowledge as a MENA Scholar in North America: An Interview with Dr. Lara Deeb Sahver Kuzucuoglu The Study of Islam(s) and Western Academia: An Interview with Anver Emon Rehan Sayeed Section 2: Charting the Study of Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada Who Are “Muslims in Canada”? An Analysis of the Qualitative Literature from 1997 to 2017 Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Lori G. Beaman Studying Muslim Minorities in Canada: Pitfalls Facing Researchers Attempting to Turn a Racialized Category into a Category of Analysis Paul Eid Time for a “Hijab Ban”? The Hypervisibility of Veiling in Scholarship on Islam in North America Sadaf Ahmed Expressions of Sufism in Canada Meena Sharify-Funk and Jason Idriss Sparkes Unpacking Media Coverage, Islam, and Ismaili Muslims in Canada: An Interview with Karim H. Karim Mehmet Ali Basak The Relational Approach to Integration in Canada: An Interview with Abdie Kazemipur Sara Hamed Section 3: Positioning Selves Researching One’s Own Community: Reflections from Montreal, Canada Hicham Tiflati and Abdelaziz Djaout Cooking Up Research: Positionality and the Knowledge Production of Islam(s) Rachel Brown Fieldworking While Veiled: Autoethnography of a Brown + Muslim + Female Researcher in Quebec Roshan Arah Jahangeer The Interplay of Identity in Ethnographic Conversations: The Grammar of Recognition in Conversion Narratives Géraldine Mossière On Critical Muslim Studies, Anti-Islamophobia, and Canadian Islamic Schools: An Interview with Jasmin Zine Mehmet Ali Basak Section 4: Future Trends Mixed-Methods and Comparative Approaches to Studying Muslim Immigrant Women in Canada Catherine Holtmann Influencing the Public Imaginary: The Case of a Montreal Islamic School Melanie Adrian 2(b) or Not 2(b): The Expressive Value of the Niqab Natasha Bakht Gendering Everyday Islam, Border-Crossings, and the Production of “Alternative Knowledge” Parin Dossa Dancing between Academia and Activism: An Interview with Katherine Bullock Sara Hamed List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the last twenty years, public interest in Islam and how Muslims express their religious identity in Western societies has grown exponentially. In parallel, the study of Islam in the Canadian academy has grown in a number of fields since the 1970s, reflecting a diverse range of scholarship, positionalities, and politics. Yet, academic research on Muslims in Canada has not been systematically assessed. In Producing Islam(s) in Canada, scholars from a wide range of disciplines come together to explore what is at stake regarding portrayals of Islam(s) and Muslims in academic scholarship. Given the centrality of representations of Canadian Muslims in current public policy and public imaginaries, which effects how all Canadians experience religious diversity, this analysis of knowledge production comes at a crucial time.Table of ContentsPreface Amir Hussain Acknowledgments General Introduction: Producing Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Melanie Adrian Section 1: Examining Knowledge Production on Islam Epistemologies of the “Muslim Question” in Europe: On the Politics of Knowledge Production in a Minefield Schirin Amir-Moazami Research Funding and the Production of Knowledge about Islam: The Case of SSHRC Aaron W. Hughes Creating Ecologies of Knowledge as a MENA Scholar in North America: An Interview with Dr. Lara Deeb Sahver Kuzucuoglu The Study of Islam(s) and Western Academia: An Interview with Anver Emon Rehan Sayeed Section 2: Charting the Study of Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada Who Are “Muslims in Canada”? An Analysis of the Qualitative Literature from 1997 to 2017 Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Lori G. Beaman Studying Muslim Minorities in Canada: Pitfalls Facing Researchers Attempting to Turn a Racialized Category into a Category of Analysis Paul Eid Time for a “Hijab Ban”? The Hypervisibility of Veiling in Scholarship on Islam in North America Sadaf Ahmed Expressions of Sufism in Canada Meena Sharify-Funk and Jason Idriss Sparkes Unpacking Media Coverage, Islam, and Ismaili Muslims in Canada: An Interview with Karim H. Karim Mehmet Ali Basak The Relational Approach to Integration in Canada: An Interview with Abdie Kazemipur Sara Hamed Section 3: Positioning Selves Researching One’s Own Community: Reflections from Montreal, Canada Hicham Tiflati and Abdelaziz Djaout Cooking Up Research: Positionality and the Knowledge Production of Islam(s) Rachel Brown Fieldworking While Veiled: Autoethnography of a Brown + Muslim + Female Researcher in Quebec Roshan Arah Jahangeer The Interplay of Identity in Ethnographic Conversations: The Grammar of Recognition in Conversion Narratives Géraldine Mossière On Critical Muslim Studies, Anti-Islamophobia, and Canadian Islamic Schools: An Interview with Jasmin Zine Mehmet Ali Basak Section 4: Future Trends Mixed-Methods and Comparative Approaches to Studying Muslim Immigrant Women in Canada Catherine Holtmann Influencing the Public Imaginary: The Case of a Montreal Islamic School Melanie Adrian 2(b) or Not 2(b): The Expressive Value of the Niqab Natasha Bakht Gendering Everyday Islam, Border-Crossings, and the Production of “Alternative Knowledge” Parin Dossa Dancing between Academia and Activism: An Interview with Katherine Bullock Sara Hamed List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisGuides readers through an exploration of legend tripping, drawing on years of scholarship, documentary accounts, and his own extensive fieldwork. Poring over old reports and legends, sleeping in haunted inns, and trekking through wilderness full of cannibal mutants and strange beasts, Debies-Carl provides an in-depth analysis of this practice.

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Book SynopsisManagement has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Some it supported and others it destroyed, but there are few areas in modern societies that have been untouched by it. What is the meaning of management now almost omnipresent and all-powerful in our current bleak times, in our current state of 'interregnum' that is characterized by an increasing sense of insecurity and hopelessness, a time when, paradoxically, the seemingly omnipotent force of management does not seem to work? Does it have a role to play today and in the future? What can it become and whom should it serve when the interregnum is over and a new, hopefully more humane, system begins to dawn? These are some of the questions explored in this timely new book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the greatest thinkers of our times, architect and Urban Studies professor Irena Bauman, and two organization and management scholars, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Monika Kostera.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: On interregnum, meso level organizing, and the city Chapter 2: Management without managers Chapter 3: The organization of the global and the local Chapter 4: Utopian hopes Chapter 5: Craftsmanship Chapter 6: Crises and consequences Coda Notes Index

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Book SynopsisManagement has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Some it supported and others it destroyed, but there are few areas in modern societies that have been untouched by it. What is the meaning of management now almost omnipresent and all-powerful in our current bleak times, in our current state of 'interregnum' that is characterized by an increasing sense of insecurity and hopelessness, a time when, paradoxically, the seemingly omnipotent force of management does not seem to work? Does it have a role to play today and in the future? What can it become and whom should it serve when the interregnum is over and a new, hopefully more humane, system begins to dawn? These are some of the questions explored in this timely new book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the greatest thinkers of our times, architect and Urban Studies professor Irena Bauman, and two organization and management scholars, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Monika Kostera.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: On interregnum, meso level organizing, and the city Chapter 2: Management without managers Chapter 3: The organization of the global and the local Chapter 4: Utopian hopes Chapter 5: Craftsmanship Chapter 6: Crises and consequences Coda Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWall Street and Silicon Valley – the two worlds this book examines – promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless “flow.” Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt, crisis, digital divides, and (dis)connectivity. Moving between the planned obsolescence and deliberate precariousness of digital technologies and the “too big to fail” logic of the Great Recession, they argue that the sense of failure is real in that it produces disappointment and pain. Yet, failure is not a self-evident quality of projects, institutions, technologies, or lives. It requires a new and urgent understanding of the conditions under which repeated breakdowns and collapses are quickly forgotten. By looking at such moments of forgetfulness, this highly original book offers a multilayered account of failure and a general theory of denial, memory, and nascent systems of control.Trade Review"Failure is an extraordinarily incisive and insightful work of contemporary social theory. The book unravels an infuriating paradox: Silicon Valley and Wall Street companies that move fast, break things, and ruin lives, justify their disastrous performance as a necessary step toward a glorious future. Appadurai and Alexander debunk this naïve narrative of progress, while exposing how important it is to superficially respectable social science. Their critical theory illuminates key trends of our time."Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland Carey School of Law “Appadurai and Alexander’s Failure exacts a scathing critique of how digital capitalism reorganizes time, the social, and the self. It is a stockpile of insights, an academic arsenal for overthrowing today’s ‘regimes of failure.’”John Cheney-Lippold, University of Michigan“Failure is an exercise in interdisciplinarity rendered particularly effective in its ability to touch on concepts currently on the radar of popular audiences, from questions of digital privacy to the ramifications of the financializing futures. Failure’s call to action is a reminder to remember certain failures and their effects, but its reach extends beyond readjusting day-to-day priorities—Failure is a guide for reexamining the local and global systems threatening to indefinitely divide those of us with so much in common.”Hyperrhiz 22Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Difference that Doesn’t Make a Difference 2. Chapter 1: The Promise Machine: Between “Techno-failure” and Market Failure 3. Chapter 2: Creative Destruction and the New Socialities 4. Chapter 3: Failure, Forgotten: On Buffering, Latency, and the Monetization of Waiting 5. Chapter 4: Too Big to Fail: Banks, Derivatives, and Market Collapse 6. Conclusion: Failure, Remembered 7. References

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Book SynopsisControlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about much more than patrolling territorial boundaries at the edges of states: it now comprises a multitude of practices that take place at different levels, some at the edges of states and some in the local contexts of everyday life – in workplaces, in hospitals, in schools – which, taken together, construct, reproduce and contest borders and the rights and obligations associated with belonging to a nation-state. This book is a systematic exploration of the practices and processes that now define state bordering and the role it plays in national and global governance. Based on original research, it goes well beyond traditional approaches to the study of migration and racism, showing how these processes affect all members of society, not just the marginalized others. The uncertainties arising from these processes mean that more and more people find themselves living in grey zones, excluded from any form of protection and often denied basic human rights.Trade Review‘In Bordering the authors give us an account that brings together the multiple vectors that constitute a border, making legible components of borders we never think of. And they discover that border brutality can include much more than the familiar notions and images we see in newspapers.’Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions ‘A path-breaking study of borders and bordering processes that combines theoretical depth with empirical insight. It points to the many and varied ways in which bordering processes weave together sociopolitical and economic dimensions across complex and contested terrains. Highly recommended.’Avtar Brah, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London"The authors of this fascinating, highly topical and ambitious book demonstrate compellingly how borders/borderings have moved from the margins into the middle of political and everyday life. Borders and the processes of bordering weave together various domains of socio-political and economic life and are also vigorously mobilized to transform and redefine the key categories of social life, such as identity, belonging and citizenship. This book is a well-written, theoretically informed, and historically and politically sensitive. Its empirical illustrations are rich and well-selected. This volume can be warmly recommended to all scholars interested in one of the most burning issues of the contemporary ever more mobile world that is borders, and the multi-scalar processes of de- and re-bordering occurring both inside and outside of state territories."Professor Paasi Anssi, University of Oulu “A compelling illustration of different bordering processes and how their reach extends throughout society.”Catherine Schmidt , University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada“Researchers interested in a practical guide to intersectional approaches in qualitative research and those curious about the many forms of borderings that regulate quotidian life today will appreciate this book.”The Border Criminologies blogTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction: Framing Bordering Introduction Bordering: in between the political and socio-cultural Bordering and neoliberal globalization Everyday intersectional bordering Outline of the book Chapter 2 Bordering, Governance and Belonging: An Historical Overview Introduction Pre-modern borderings Modernity and bordering: the long eighteenth century Bordering in the aftermath of WW1 Bordering in the aftermath of WW2 The collapse of state socialism and EU enlargement Neoliberalism and its crises The rise of absolutist movements Bordering in the context of violent conflicts, neoliberal developments and ecological crisis in the Global South Journeys towards the ‘global migration crisis’ Rebordering Brexit Conclusion Chapter 3 Firewall Bordering at State Managed Border Control Points Introduction Bordering-scape 1: ‘external’ border control points: visas, airports, train station, seaports Bordering-scape 2: firewall bordering at ‘internal’ border control point of registry offices Bordering-scape 3: firewall bordering, ‘external’ and ‘internal’ bordering encounters experienced by Eastern European Roma and Nepali army families. Conclusion Chapter 4 Everyday Bordering, Citizenship and Belonging Introduction Bordering-scape 4: employment Bordering-scape 5: accommodation Bordering scape 6: education Conclusion Chapter 5 Bordering and Grey Zones Introduction Bordering-scape 7: The ‘Jungle’ in Calais Bordering-scape 8: grey zones in Britain Bordering-scape 9: post-borderland Dover Conclusion Chapter 6 Conclusion: Understanding Bordering Introduction Bordering as central and constitutive of social processes Bordering as a political discourse and practice of governance and belonging Bordering as an outcome and cause of social inequalities Bordering as a situated endeavour Bordering and transversal political epistemology Resisting everyday bordering Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisControlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about much more than patrolling territorial boundaries at the edges of states: it now comprises a multitude of practices that take place at different levels, some at the edges of states and some in the local contexts of everyday life – in workplaces, in hospitals, in schools – which, taken together, construct, reproduce and contest borders and the rights and obligations associated with belonging to a nation-state. This book is a systematic exploration of the practices and processes that now define state bordering and the role it plays in national and global governance. Based on original research, it goes well beyond traditional approaches to the study of migration and racism, showing how these processes affect all members of society, not just the marginalized others. The uncertainties arising from these processes mean that more and more people find themselves living in grey zones, excluded from any form of protection and often denied basic human rights.Trade Review‘In Bordering the authors give us an account that brings together the multiple vectors that constitute a border, making legible components of borders we never think of. And they discover that border brutality can include much more than the familiar notions and images we see in newspapers.’Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions ‘A path-breaking study of borders and bordering processes that combines theoretical depth with empirical insight. It points to the many and varied ways in which bordering processes weave together sociopolitical and economic dimensions across complex and contested terrains. Highly recommended.’Avtar Brah, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London"The authors of this fascinating, highly topical and ambitious book demonstrate compellingly how borders/borderings have moved from the margins into the middle of political and everyday life. Borders and the processes of bordering weave together various domains of socio-political and economic life and are also vigorously mobilized to transform and redefine the key categories of social life, such as identity, belonging and citizenship. This book is a well-written, theoretically informed, and historically and politically sensitive. Its empirical illustrations are rich and well-selected. This volume can be warmly recommended to all scholars interested in one of the most burning issues of the contemporary ever more mobile world that is borders, and the multi-scalar processes of de- and re-bordering occurring both inside and outside of state territories."Professor Paasi Anssi, University of Oulu “A compelling illustration of different bordering processes and how their reach extends throughout society.”Catherine Schmidt , University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada“Researchers interested in a practical guide to intersectional approaches in qualitative research and those curious about the many forms of borderings that regulate quotidian life today will appreciate this book.”The Border Criminologies blogTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction: Framing Bordering Introduction Bordering: in between the political and socio-cultural Bordering and neoliberal globalization Everyday intersectional bordering Outline of the book Chapter 2 Bordering, Governance and Belonging: An Historical Overview Introduction Pre-modern borderings Modernity and bordering: the long eighteenth century Bordering in the aftermath of WW1 Bordering in the aftermath of WW2 The collapse of state socialism and EU enlargement Neoliberalism and its crises The rise of absolutist movements Bordering in the context of violent conflicts, neoliberal developments and ecological crisis in the Global South Journeys towards the ‘global migration crisis’ Rebordering Brexit Conclusion Chapter 3 Firewall Bordering at State Managed Border Control Points Introduction Bordering-scape 1: ‘external’ border control points: visas, airports, train station, seaports Bordering-scape 2: firewall bordering at ‘internal’ border control point of registry offices Bordering-scape 3: firewall bordering, ‘external’ and ‘internal’ bordering encounters experienced by Eastern European Roma and Nepali army families. Conclusion Chapter 4 Everyday Bordering, Citizenship and Belonging Introduction Bordering-scape 4: employment Bordering-scape 5: accommodation Bordering scape 6: education Conclusion Chapter 5 Bordering and Grey Zones Introduction Bordering-scape 7: The ‘Jungle’ in Calais Bordering-scape 8: grey zones in Britain Bordering-scape 9: post-borderland Dover Conclusion Chapter 6 Conclusion: Understanding Bordering Introduction Bordering as central and constitutive of social processes Bordering as a political discourse and practice of governance and belonging Bordering as an outcome and cause of social inequalities Bordering as a situated endeavour Bordering and transversal political epistemology Resisting everyday bordering Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisStudies of race and media are dominated by textual approaches that explore the politics of representation. But there is little understanding of how and why representations of race in the media take the shape that they do. How, one might ask, is race created by cultural industries? In this important new book, Anamik Saha encourages readers to focus on the production of representations of racial and ethnic minorities in film, television, music and the arts. His interdisciplinary approach combines critical media studies and media industries research with postcolonial studies and critical race perspectives to reveal how political economic forces and legacies of empire shape industrial cultural production and, in turn, media discourses around race. Race and the Cultural Industries is required reading for students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as anyone interested in why historical representations of 'the Other' persist in the media and how they are to be challenged.Trade Review"I love this book. Alongside the justified, simmering rage concerning racism, there is careful and elegant analysis of the production systems behind the media's promotion and manifestations of racial inequality. This is a major contribution not only to media studies, but also to understandings of race and ethnicity in contemporary culture and society."David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds "In this carefully researched volume, Anamik Saha carves out an original and compelling approach for studying how the cultural industries shape the politics of race today, and how those industries need to change to allow more equitable societies to emerge. This book is required reading for every citizen, student, activist and scholar with a commitment to race and social justice."Timothy Havens, The University of IowaTable of Contents Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Part 1: Framework Chapter 1: Race and the cultural industries Chapter 2: Approaching race and cultural production Part 2: Media, race and power Chapter 3: Capitalism, race and the ambivalence of commodification Chapter 4: ‘Diversity’ in media and cultural policy Part 3: The cultural politics of production Chapter 5: The racialisation of the cultural commodity Chapter 6: Enabling race-making in the cultural industries Chapter 7: Conclusion References Index

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Book Synopsis"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one thing and means the opposite, the concept of irony has long played a more fundamental role in the tradition of philosophy, a role that goes back to Socrates Ð the originator and exemplar of the urbane ironic life. But what precisely is Socratic irony and what relevance, if any, does it have for us today? Bernstein begins his inquiry with a critical examination of the work of two contemporary philosophers for whom irony is vital: Jonathan Lear and Richard Rorty. Despite their sharp differences, Bernstein argues that they complement one other, each exploring different aspects of ironic life. In the background of Lear’s and Rorty’s accounts stand the two great ironists: Socrates and Kierkegaard. Focusing on the competing interpretations of Socratic irony by Gregory Vlastos and Alexander Nehamas, Bernstein shows how they further develop our understanding of irony as a form of life and as an art of living. Bernstein also develops a distinctive interpretation of Kierkegaard’s famous claim that a life that may be called human begins with irony. Bernstein weaves together the insights of these thinkers to show how each contributes to a richer understanding of ironic life. He also argues that the emphasis on irony helps to restore the balance between two different philosophical traditions philosophy as a theoretical discipline concerned with getting things right and philosophy as a practical discipline that shapes how we ought to live our lives.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Jonathan Lear and Richard Rorty on Irony Lear's Case for Irony Rorty on Irony, Contingency, and Liberalism Some Questions Concerning Lear and Rorty 2. What is Socratic Irony? Gregory Vlastos: Socratic Irony as Complex Irony Alexander Nehamas: Socratic Irony as Silence Vlastos and Nehamas: Productive Tensions 3. Søren Kierkegaard: Irony and Ethical Passion Irony as Infinite Absolute Negativity Moving Beyond "Pure Irony" 4. Irony, Philosophy, and Living a Human Life The Art of Living Why Irony Matters Notes References Name Index Subject Index

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Book Synopsis"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one thing and means the opposite, the concept of irony has long played a more fundamental role in the tradition of philosophy, a role that goes back to Socrates Ð the originator and exemplar of the urbane ironic life. But what precisely is Socratic irony and what relevance, if any, does it have for us today? Bernstein begins his inquiry with a critical examination of the work of two contemporary philosophers for whom irony is vital: Jonathan Lear and Richard Rorty. Despite their sharp differences, Bernstein argues that they complement one other, each exploring different aspects of ironic life. In the background of Lear’s and Rorty’s accounts stand the two great ironists: Socrates and Kierkegaard. Focusing on the competing interpretations of Socratic irony by Gregory Vlastos and Alexander Nehamas, Bernstein shows how they further develop our understanding of irony as a form of life and as an art of living. Bernstein also develops a distinctive interpretation of Kierkegaard’s famous claim that a life that may be called human begins with irony. Bernstein weaves together the insights of these thinkers to show how each contributes to a richer understanding of ironic life. He also argues that the emphasis on irony helps to restore the balance between two different philosophical traditions philosophy as a theoretical discipline concerned with getting things right and philosophy as a practical discipline that shapes how we ought to live our lives.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Jonathan Lear and Richard Rorty on Irony Lear's Case for Irony Rorty on Irony, Contingency, and Liberalism Some Questions Concerning Lear and Rorty 2. What is Socratic Irony? Gregory Vlastos: Socratic Irony as Complex Irony Alexander Nehamas: Socratic Irony as Silence Vlastos and Nehamas: Productive Tensions 3. Søren Kierkegaard: Irony and Ethical Passion Irony as Infinite Absolute Negativity Moving Beyond "Pure Irony" 4. Irony, Philosophy, and Living a Human Life The Art of Living Why Irony Matters Notes References Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisWe live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The solution is usually seen as more public scrutiny and more control by democratic institutions – experts must be subservient to social and political life. In this book, Harry Collins and Robert Evans take a radically different view. They argue that, rather than democracies needing to be protected from science, democratic societies need to learn how to value science in this new age of uncertainty. By emphasizing that science is a moral enterprise, guided by values that should matter to all, they show how science can support democracy without destroying it and propose a new institution – The Owls – that can mediate between science and society and improve technological decision-making for the benefit of all.Trade Review"Scientific and technological advances have a huge impact on our lives, yet science and society have an ambivalent relationship: science needs democracy to flourish but its techniques are beyond political accountability. In this thought-provoking book, Collins and Evans assert that "science gives substance to the way of being of democracy". Consequently, science is a key to achieving and safeguarding our democratic ideals."—Barry Barish, Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Caltech; PI and Director of LIGO, 1994–2005"Free-market ideology threatens both science and democracy. Collins and Evans respond not with philosophical arguments but an appeal to common sense. They ask us first to see that we face a basic moral choice, and then to choose the values of modern science. A provocative and thoughtful book."—Mark Brown, Professor of Government, California State University, Sacramento"Should we only give credence to an expert in any given field, thereby discounting the view of non-specialists? Doing so would seem rather undemocratic. It would also appear to reduce the scope for holding experts accountable. [... Collins and Evans'] theory not only tries to explain how knowledge is acquired but also legitimises the contribution which non-practitioners can make to scientific practice."—The Irish TimesTable of ContentsPreface Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: Science as a Moral Choice Part II: Elective Modernism Chapter 2: Choosing Science Chapter 3: The Birds: Elective Modernism, Democracy and Science Part III: Academic Context Chapter 4: Elective Modernism in Context Chapter 5: Institutional Innovations Part IV: Manifesto Conclusion: Elective Modernism and Democracy Notes References Cited

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Book SynopsisWe live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The solution is usually seen as more public scrutiny and more control by democratic institutions – experts must be subservient to social and political life. In this book, Harry Collins and Robert Evans take a radically different view. They argue that, rather than democracies needing to be protected from science, democratic societies need to learn how to value science in this new age of uncertainty. By emphasizing that science is a moral enterprise, guided by values that should matter to all, they show how science can support democracy without destroying it and propose a new institution – The Owls – that can mediate between science and society and improve technological decision-making for the benefit of all.Trade Review"Scientific and technological advances have a huge impact on our lives, yet science and society have an ambivalent relationship: science needs democracy to flourish but its techniques are beyond political accountability. In this thought-provoking book, Collins and Evans assert that “science gives substance to the way of being of democracy”. Consequently, science is a key to achieving and safeguarding our democratic ideals." —Barry Barish, Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Caltech; PI and Director of LIGO, 1994–2005 "Free-market ideology threatens both science and democracy. Collins and Evans respond not with philosophical arguments but an appeal to common sense. They ask us first to see that we face a basic moral choice, and then to choose the values of modern science. A provocative and thoughtful book." —Mark Brown, Professor of Government, California State University, Sacramento"Should we only give credence to an expert in any given field, thereby discounting the view of non-specialists? Doing so would seem rather undemocratic. It would also appear to reduce the scope for holding experts accountable. [... Collins and Evans'] theory not only tries to explain how knowledge is acquired but also legitimises the contribution which non-practitioners can make to scientific practice."—The Irish TimesTable of ContentsPreface Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: Science as a Moral Choice Part II: Elective Modernism Chapter 2: Choosing Science Chapter 3: The Birds: Elective Modernism, Democracy and Science Part III: Academic Context Chapter 4: Elective Modernism in Context Chapter 5: Institutional Innovations Part IV: Manifesto Conclusion: Elective Modernism and Democracy Notes References Cited

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Book SynopsisTwitter is a household name, discussed for its role in national elections, natural disasters, and political movements, as well as for what some malign as narcissistic “chatter.” The first edition of Murthy’s balanced and incisive book pioneered the study of this medium as a serious platform worthy of scholarly attention. Much has changed since Twitter’s infancy, although it is more relevant than ever to our social, political, and economic lives. This timely second edition shows how Twitter has evolved and how it is used today. Murthy introduces some of the historical context that gave birth to the platform, while providing up-to-date examples such as the #blacklivesmatter movement, and Donald Trump’s use of Twitter in the US election. The chapters on journalism and social movements have been thoroughly updated, and completely new to this edition is a chapter on celebrities and brands. Seeking to answer challenging questions around the popular medium, the second edition of Twitter is essential reading for students and scholars of digital media.Trade Review"Dhiraj Murthy is one of the foremost experts in social media and Twitter as a platform. His new edition of Twitter treats the platform as a firm, as a mode communication, and as a culture of technology use. Important political leaders use it, young people use it, and journalists use it, sometimes to the detriment of public life. Murthy takes us through the contagions and consequences of Twitter use."—Philip N. Howard, Oxford University and author of Castells and the Media "Ten years after being introduced, Twitter has become an integral professional and civic tool. Now Dhiraj Murthy brings an updated version of his methodologically innovative and sociologically deep approach to this transformative social media platform."—Stephen D. Reese, University of Texas at Austin "A welcome addition to the growing world of Twitter research."—Temitayo Olofinlua, University of Ibadan

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Book SynopsisTwitter is a household name, discussed for its role in national elections, natural disasters, and political movements, as well as for what some malign as narcissistic “chatter.” The first edition of Murthy’s balanced and incisive book pioneered the study of this medium as a serious platform worthy of scholarly attention. Much has changed since Twitter’s infancy, although it is more relevant than ever to our social, political, and economic lives. This timely second edition shows how Twitter has evolved and how it is used today. Murthy introduces some of the historical context that gave birth to the platform, while providing up-to-date examples such as the #blacklivesmatter movement, and Donald Trump’s use of Twitter in the US election. The chapters on journalism and social movements have been thoroughly updated, and completely new to this edition is a chapter on celebrities and brands. Seeking to answer challenging questions around the popular medium, the second edition of Twitter is essential reading for students and scholars of digital media.Trade Review"Dhiraj Murthy is one of the foremost experts in social media and Twitter as a platform. His new edition of Twitter treats the platform as a firm, as a mode communication, and as a culture of technology use. Important political leaders use it, young people use it, and journalists use it, sometimes to the detriment of public life. Murthy takes us through the contagions and consequences of Twitter use."—Philip N. Howard, Oxford University and author of Castells and the Media "Ten years after being introduced, Twitter has become an integral professional and civic tool. Now Dhiraj Murthy brings an updated version of his methodologically innovative and sociologically deep approach to this transformative social media platform."—Stephen D. Reese, University of Texas at Austin "A welcome addition to the growing world of Twitter research."—Temitayo Olofinlua, University of Ibadan

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Book SynopsisFrom mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek – the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. It also argues that the Left needs to work inside this dreamspace – a powerful arena for constructing our desires – or else the dreamworld will fall entirely into the hands of dominant and reactionary forces. While cyberspace is increasingly dominated by corporate organization, gaming, at its most subversive, can nevertheless produce radical forms of enjoyment which threaten the capitalist norms that are created and endlessly repeated in our daily relationships with mobile phones, videogames, computers and other forms of technological entertainment. Far from being a book solely for dedicated gamers, this book dissects the structure of our relationships to all technological entertainment at a time when entertainment has become ubiquitous. We can no longer escape our fantasies but rather live inside their digital reality.Trade Review“The universe of video games and the action they involve us in render perfectly the illusions and antagonisms of our ideological predicament - the popularity of post-apocalyptic games tells it all. But perhaps even more important is the type of subjectivity a gamer has to adopt when immersed into a game: a mixture of extreme engagement and loss of reality, a universe of immortality where actions are indefinitely repeatable. So it is not that we can understand the impact of these games only through the analysis of our social reality - it's also the other way round: to understand how our societies work you have to know video games And Alfie Bown does this at such a high level that he produces an instant classic, a book that everyone who seeks to find a way in our confused social life will have to read. The Playstation Dreamworld is unputdownable, once you start reading it you will get addicted to it... as in a good video game!” Slavoj Žižek “If you ever asked yourself what Freud and Lacan would think if they had a chance to play video games, Alfie Bown gives you the answer. As a passionate gamer and a playful philosopher, he succeeds in showing not only why video-games matter but why they might carry subversive potential. This exciting psychoanalysis of video games shows why Pokémon GO and other games were only the beginning of a brave new world."Srećko Horvat From mobile phones to consoles to tablet, we are now a generation of gamers. This book dissects the structure of our relationships to all forms of technological entertainment at a time when digital enjoyment has become ubiquitous.Alfie Bown is Assistant Professor of Literature at HSMC, Hong Kong and co-editor of the Hong Kong Review of Books."A significant contribution to the debate around virtual reality" TLSTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Note on the Games Tutorial: The Pokémon Generation Level 1. From Farming Simulation to Dystopic Wasteland: Gaming and Capitalism Work and Play - Cultures of Distraction - Pastoral Dystopia, Apocalyptic Utopia – No Alternative Level 2. Dreamwork: Cyborgs on the Analyst’s Couch Japanese Dreams, American Texts – The Dreamworld - Repetitions and the Dromena – Immersion and Westworld Level 3. Retro Gaming: The Politics of Former and Future Pleasures 90s Rational Gaming – Virtual/Reality - Subject, Object, Enjoyment - Jouissance in the Arcades Bonus Features: How to be a Subversive Gamer Game Index Endnotes

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Book SynopsisÉmile Durkheim’s major works are among the founding texts of the discipline of sociology, but his importance lies also in his immense legacy and subsequent influence upon others. In this book, Philip Smith examines not only Durkheim’s original ideas, but also reveals how he inspired more than a century of theoretical innovations, identifying the key paths, bridges, and dead ends – as well as the tensions and resolutions – in what has been a remarkably complex intellectual history. Beginning with an overview of the key elements of Durkheim’s mature masterpieces, Smith also examines his lesser known essays, commentaries and lectures. He goes on to analyse his immediate influence on the Année Sociologique group, before tracing the international impact of Durkheim upon modern anthropology, sociology, and social and cultural theory. Smith shows that many leading social thinkers, from Marcel Mauss to Mary Douglas and Randall Collins, have been carriers for the multiple pathways mapped out in Durkheim’s original thought.This book will be essential reading for any student or scholar seeking to understand this fundamental impact on areas ranging from social theory and anthropology to religious studies and beyond.Trade Review“Smith’s book is a marvelous theoretical and scholarly accomplishment. It is far and away the most insightful and important work ever written not only about Durkheim but, most importantly, the tradition he created.”Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University “This book is like the sun coming up, dispelling the myths that sociology has never made any important discoveries or sharpened its knowledge across the generations. Philip Smith’s lucid and fair-minded account tells the story from Durkheim’s team to the theoretical trajectories of today, while touching on much of the intellectual action for over a century.”Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania “A masterpiece of sociological theory – well written and based on an impressive breadth of knowledge, a strong capacity for synthesis, and a great open-mindedness.”Marcel Fournier, University of Montreal "This book sensitizes us to the richness of Durkheim’s heritage, the inspirations that have been drawn from it and those that are still waiting to become fruitful. It offers a useful overview of the twists and turns of the Durkheim reception – with a particular focus on American cultural sociology.”Hans Joas, Humboldt University, Berlin, and University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Durkheim’s Life and the Four Major Books Situating Durkheim – early life and training - The Division of Labor - The Rules of Sociological Method – Suicide - the middle career phase - L'Année Sociologique - the Elementary Forms - death. Chapter 2: Durkheim’s Other Works and the Contributions of His Students The variety of outputs – individualism - socialism - ethics- the state – sex/gender/family/marriage- pragmatism –education - the body – punishment – classification – Mauss – Hertz – Hubert - other students in the Année team. Chapter 3: Durkheimian Thought 1917-1950 France-the fate of Durkheim’s team - Mauss the gift and the body - Halbwachs and collective memory - Bataille and the Collège de Sociologie – England and structural functionalist anthropology – Radcliffe-Brown – Evans-Pritchard – the United States - Parsons - Merton. Chapter 4: Through the Cultural Turn 1950-1985 Parsons and systems theory – the fall of Parsons – Germany – Lévi-Strauss – British anthropology - Mary Douglas – Durkheimian empirical sociology in the United States. Chapter 5: Into the Twenty-First Century: Durkheim Revived Durkheim neglected – the rise of cultural sociology in the United States – Jeffrey Alexander and the Strong Program – Randall Collins and interaction ritual – Other Durkheimian work in the United States – the Durkheimian Studies/Études Durkheimiennes Group - Germany – adaptations of Mary Douglas on grid/group – evolutionary psychology– the return of normative Durkheimian theory. References

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Book SynopsisÉmile Durkheim’s major works are among the founding texts of the discipline of sociology, but his importance lies also in his immense legacy and subsequent influence upon others. In this book, Philip Smith examines not only Durkheim’s original ideas, but also reveals how he inspired more than a century of theoretical innovations, identifying the key paths, bridges, and dead ends – as well as the tensions and resolutions – in what has been a remarkably complex intellectual history. Beginning with an overview of the key elements of Durkheim’s mature masterpieces, Smith also examines his lesser known essays, commentaries and lectures. He goes on to analyse his immediate influence on the Année Sociologique group, before tracing the international impact of Durkheim upon modern anthropology, sociology, and social and cultural theory. Smith shows that many leading social thinkers, from Marcel Mauss to Mary Douglas and Randall Collins, have been carriers for the multiple pathways mapped out in Durkheim’s original thought.This book will be essential reading for any student or scholar seeking to understand this fundamental impact on areas ranging from social theory and anthropology to religious studies and beyond.Trade Review“Smith’s book is a marvelous theoretical and scholarly accomplishment. It is far and away the most insightful and important work ever written not only about Durkheim but, most importantly, the tradition he created.”Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University “This book is like the sun coming up, dispelling the myths that sociology has never made any important discoveries or sharpened its knowledge across the generations. Philip Smith’s lucid and fair-minded account tells the story from Durkheim’s team to the theoretical trajectories of today, while touching on much of the intellectual action for over a century.”Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania “A masterpiece of sociological theory – well written and based on an impressive breadth of knowledge, a strong capacity for synthesis, and a great open-mindedness.”Marcel Fournier, University of Montreal "This book sensitizes us to the richness of Durkheim’s heritage, the inspirations that have been drawn from it and those that are still waiting to become fruitful. It offers a useful overview of the twists and turns of the Durkheim reception – with a particular focus on American cultural sociology.”Hans Joas, Humboldt University, Berlin, and University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Durkheim’s Life and the Four Major Books Situating Durkheim – early life and training - The Division of Labor - The Rules of Sociological Method – Suicide - the middle career phase - L'Année Sociologique - the Elementary Forms - death. Chapter 2: Durkheim’s Other Works and the Contributions of His Students The variety of outputs – individualism - socialism - ethics- the state – sex/gender/family/marriage- pragmatism –education - the body – punishment – classification – Mauss – Hertz – Hubert - other students in the Année team. Chapter 3: Durkheimian Thought 1917-1950 France-the fate of Durkheim’s team - Mauss the gift and the body - Halbwachs and collective memory - Bataille and the Collège de Sociologie – England and structural functionalist anthropology – Radcliffe-Brown – Evans-Pritchard – the United States - Parsons - Merton. Chapter 4: Through the Cultural Turn 1950-1985 Parsons and systems theory – the fall of Parsons – Germany – Lévi-Strauss – British anthropology - Mary Douglas – Durkheimian empirical sociology in the United States. Chapter 5: Into the Twenty-First Century: Durkheim Revived Durkheim neglected – the rise of cultural sociology in the United States – Jeffrey Alexander and the Strong Program – Randall Collins and interaction ritual – Other Durkheimian work in the United States – the Durkheimian Studies/Études Durkheimiennes Group - Germany – adaptations of Mary Douglas on grid/group – evolutionary psychology– the return of normative Durkheimian theory. References

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Book SynopsisIn this accessible and engagingly written book, Vanessa May invites readers into the rich world of thought, research and study of the highly diverse phenomenon of families and family life. The book explores what is and has been understood by ‘family’ in different sociocultural contexts and how family life intersects with social spheres such as the state, the labour market and the economy. Alongside broad social developments such as (post)colonialism and austerity and their connections with changing family patterns, the book engages interdisciplinary work on time, embodiment and materiality in order to offer a multidimensional perspective on the day-to-day lives of families. Drawing from research in the Global North and the Global South, the text carefully considers how people approach the study of families and thus offers insight into the shape of mainstream family studies today. The book offers a timely intervention into current debates within family studies and suggests avenues of investigation that deserve further attention, and will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars alike.Trade Review‘This book is interdisciplinary and inquisitive at its core, taking the field of family studies as an open question rather than an already structured and cleared path. It presents the messiness of families as they really are.’Rin Reczek, The Ohio State University‘Vanessa May pushes the boundaries of family studies to uncharted territories. Her beautifully written book is paradigm-shifting, meticulously researched, theoretically sophisticated and driven by a profound desire for a different sociology of family life. Families is a rigorous, groundbreaking book that should be read widely and repeatedly.’Kinneret Lahad, Tel Aviv University‘Families challenges us to identify and critically examine the norms that guide our investigation into the family as a practice, providing a template to avoid ethnocentric analysis. This book should be core reading in undergraduate and graduate classes in family studies.’Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Cultural Variation in Family Forms 3 Conceptualizing ‘Family’ in Euro-American Research 4 Governing Families 5 The Embodied and Material Dimensions of Family Life 6 Families Located in and Moving through Space 7 Families in Time 8 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisW.E.B Du Bois is widely considered one of the most accomplished and controversial African American intellectuals in U.S. history. A pioneering historian, sociologist, political economist, and civil rights activist, his masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk remains one of the most widely read books in the history of American literature. In this new book, Reiland Rabaka critically explores Du Bois’s multidimensional legacy, lucidly introducing his main contributions in areas ranging from American sociology and critical race studies to black feminism and black Marxism. Rabaka argues that Du Bois’s corpus, particularly when attention is given to his contributions to the critique of racism, sexism, capitalism and colonialism, can be persuasively interpreted as both an undeniable and unprecedented contribution to the origins and evolution of one of our most important contemporary critical concepts: intersectionality. Du Bois: A Critical Introduction is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of history, sociology, politics, and economics. It will also be very valuable for those working in interdisciplinary fields, ranging from African American studies, critical race studies, and critical white studies to black feminism, black Marxism, and black internationalism.Trade Review“In this his latest book, Professor Rabaka--an excellent analyst-- makes yet another outstanding contribution to scholarship, by focusing intensively on the protean Du Bois.”Gerald Horne, University of Houston [and author of Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois]“In this original, thought-provoking, and thoroughly researched book, Reiland Rabaka offers an incisive analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois's rich political ideas— charting his evolution of thought, contributions to several fields of study, and enduring legacies.”Keisha N. Blain, University of Pittsburgh and author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom“Du Bois: A Critical Introduction is an informative, thoughtful, and skilful introduction to Du Bois’s work and an important contribution to the scholarship on Du Bois.”Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Du Bois’s Lifework 1 The Philadelphia Negro: Early Work and the Inauguration of American Sociology 2 The Souls of Black Folk: Critique of Racism and Contributions to Critical Race Studies 3 “The Souls of White Folk”: Critique of White Supremacy and Contributions to Critical White Studies 4 “The Damnation of Women”: Critique of Patriarchy, Contributions to Black Feminism, and Early Intersectionality 5 Black Reconstruction: Critique of Capitalism, Contributions to Black Marxism, and Discourse on Democratic Socialism Conclusion: Du Bois’s Legacy Notes Index

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Book SynopsisW.E.B Du Bois is widely considered one of the most accomplished and controversial African American intellectuals in U.S. history. A pioneering historian, sociologist, political economist, and civil rights activist, his masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk remains one of the most widely read books in the history of American literature. In this new book, Reiland Rabaka critically explores Du Bois’s multidimensional legacy, lucidly introducing his main contributions in areas ranging from American sociology and critical race studies to black feminism and black Marxism. Rabaka argues that Du Bois’s corpus, particularly when attention is given to his contributions to the critique of racism, sexism, capitalism and colonialism, can be persuasively interpreted as both an undeniable and unprecedented contribution to the origins and evolution of one of our most important contemporary critical concepts: intersectionality. Du Bois: A Critical Introduction is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of history, sociology, politics, and economics. It will also be very valuable for those working in interdisciplinary fields, ranging from African American studies, critical race studies, and critical white studies to black feminism, black Marxism, and black internationalism.Trade Review“In this his latest book, Professor Rabaka--an excellent analyst-- makes yet another outstanding contribution to scholarship, by focusing intensively on the protean Du Bois.”Gerald Horne, University of Houston [and author of Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois]“In this original, thought-provoking, and thoroughly researched book, Reiland Rabaka offers an incisive analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois's rich political ideas— charting his evolution of thought, contributions to several fields of study, and enduring legacies.”Keisha N. Blain, University of Pittsburgh and author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom“Du Bois: A Critical Introduction is an informative, thoughtful, and skilful introduction to Du Bois’s work and an important contribution to the scholarship on Du Bois.”Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Book SynopsisOur daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more dimensions of life, from the trivial to the profound. They are making use of the capacities of complex communication infrastructures, currently dominated by social mass media such as Twitter and Facebook, on which they have come to depend.Amidst a confusing plurality, Felix Stalder argues that are three key constituents of this condition: the use of existing cultural materials for one's own production, the way in which new meaning is established as a collective endeavour, and the underlying role of algorithms and automated decision-making processes that reduce and give shape to massive volumes of data. These three characteristics define what Stalder calls 'the digital condition'. Stalder also examines the profound political implications of this new culture. We stand at a crossroads between post-democracy and the commons, a concentration of power among the few or a genuine widening of participation, with the digital condition offering the potential for starkly different outcomes.This ambitious and wide-ranging theory of our contemporary digital condition will be of great interest to students and scholars in media and communications, cultural studies, and social, political and cultural theory, as well as to a wider readership interested in the ways in which culture and politics are changing today.Trade Review"A remarkable map of the social and cultural changes brought about by the shift to digital culture. Broad in scope and precise in detail, this is a book of plentiful insights and deft propositions." Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London"A fresh and intimate analysis that transcends labels and points to the tendency toward commons as proof for the existence of genuine, fundamental, and cutting-edge alternatives. Felix Stalder is whispering in the reader's ear that, yes, despite everything, another world is possible. A must-read for anyone who cares about the future."Trebor Scholz, The New School, New YorkTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition vii Acknowledgments x Introduction: After the End of the Gutenberg Galaxy 1 I. Evolution 11 The Expansion of the Social Basis of Culture 12 The Culturalization of the World 35 The Technologization of Culture 41 From the Margins to the Center of Society 56 II. Forms 58 Referentiality 59 Communality 79 Algorithmicity 101 III. Politics 125 Post-Democracy 127 Commons 152 Against a Lack of Alternatives 174 Notes and References 176

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Book SynopsisOur daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more dimensions of life, from the trivial to the profound. They are making use of the capacities of complex communication infrastructures, currently dominated by social mass media such as Twitter and Facebook, on which they have come to depend.Amidst a confusing plurality, Felix Stalder argues that are three key constituents of this condition: the use of existing cultural materials for one's own production, the way in which new meaning is established as a collective endeavour, and the underlying role of algorithms and automated decision-making processes that reduce and give shape to massive volumes of data. These three characteristics define what Stalder calls 'the digital condition'. Stalder also examines the profound political implications of this new culture. We stand at a crossroads between post-democracy and the commons, a concentration of power among the few or a genuine widening of participation, with the digital condition offering the potential for starkly different outcomes.This ambitious and wide-ranging theory of our contemporary digital condition will be of great interest to students and scholars in media and communications, cultural studies, and social, political and cultural theory, as well as to a wider readership interested in the ways in which culture and politics are changing today.Trade Review"A remarkable map of the social and cultural changes brought about by the shift to digital culture. Broad in scope and precise in detail, this is a book of plentiful insights and deft propositions."Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London"A fresh and intimate analysis that transcends labels and points to the tendency toward commons as proof for the existence of genuine, fundamental, and cutting-edge alternatives. Felix Stalder is whispering in the reader's ear that, yes, despite everything, another world is possible. A must-read for anyone who cares about the future."Trebor Scholz, The New School, New YorkTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition vii Acknowledgments x Introduction: After the End of the Gutenberg Galaxy 1 I. Evolution 11 The Expansion of the Social Basis of Culture 12 The Culturalization of the World 35 The Technologization of Culture 41 From the Margins to the Center of Society 56 II. Forms 58 Referentiality 59 Communality 79 Algorithmicity 101 III. Politics 125 Post-Democracy 127 Commons 152 Against a Lack of Alternatives 174 Notes and References 176

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Book SynopsisWe think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all. In this book, ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan and philosopher Isabelle Stengers argue that this commonly posed opposition between traditional and modern medicine is misleading. They show instead that healers are interesting precisely because they don’t listen to patients, using techniques of ‘divination’ rather than ‘diagnosis’. Healers construct genuine therapeutic strategies by identifying the origins of symptoms in external forces, outside of the mind of the sufferer. Modern medicine, for its part, is characterized by empiricism rather than rationality. What appears to be the pursuit of rationality is ultimately only a means to dismiss and exclude other forms of treatment. Blurring the distinctions between traditional and modern practices and drawing on perspectives from across the globe, this ethnopsychiatric manifesto encourages us to think in radically new ways about illness, challenging accepted notions on the relationship between sufferer and symptom.Trade Review"The translation of this collaboration between two leading European thinkers about psychopathology and therapeutic process gives us access to a challenging way of thinking about the relation between health and the holy, medicine and the sacred, science and religion, rationality and irrationality, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology - all in a way that will be of immediate value for those concerned with psychiatric anthropology, cultural psychiatry and global mental health."—Thomas Csordas, University of California San DiegoTable of ContentsEditor's Note 1. Towards a Scientific PsychopathologyTobie Nathan I. The Benefits of Folk Therapy Scientific Therapy and Folk Therapy Solitude Diagnostics or Divination Statistical Categories vs. Real Cultural Groups The Construction of Truth Risky Psychopathology A Clinical Illustration Continuation of the Consultation II. Medicines in Non-Western Cultures Prolegomena on Thought and Belief The Idea of the Symbol The White Man’s Medicines Thought is in Objects Concepts of the Savage Mind Active Objects In Conclusion 2. The Doctor and the CharlatanIsabelle Stengers Recovering for the Wrong Reasons The Power of Experimentation Who defines the causes? A Practical Challenge 3. Users: Lobbies or Political Creativity?Isabelle Stengers Is another kind of medicine possible? Disease mongering A machine Condemnation? Hands Off! 4. Doctors, Healers, Therapists, the Sick, Patients, Subjects, UsersTobie Nathan Therapist The Sick Patients Subjects Users Pharmaka Notes

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