Sociology and anthropology Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisOne might be surprised, astonished or indignant seeing men and women prostrating themselves in front of other men and other women. Or one might feel it is right to bow down before God, Allah, the saints, the Holy Virgin or the gods. Kings into Gods: How Prostration Shaped Eurasian Civilizations investigates the reasons why men prostrate themselves before deities or before powerful men. Through an in-depth historical and cultural analysis, this book highlights the connection between rituality and royalty within the Eurasian civilizations. The narrative and iconic documentation gathered and analyzed concerns the Greek and Roman world, the Mongolian civilization during the Middle Ages, the Hindu and Chinese civilizations, the Islamic civilization in India in the fourteenth century, the Mughal civilization and European civilization in the late Middle Ages. The different forms of the rituals in the courts of kings and emperors are tightly connected with the concept of royalty. The prostration is an act of humiliation of defeated enemies, a means to establish a abysmal distance between powerful elite and the people, a way of creating hierarchies within the elite itself.Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword Introduction Chapter One: Proskýnesis in Herodotus’s Histories Chapter Two: An Enquiry on Alexander. Apotheosis, Multicultural Empire and Clash of Civilization 1. The Journey to the Temple of Ammon Rā 2. Proskýnesis and the Struggle between Greeks and Persians Chapter Three: The Great Divergence between East and West 1. The Quest for Glory 2. Power is Instituted by God for the Good of Men 3. The Origin of the Great Divergence Between East and West Chapter Four: Proskýnesis at the Centre of the Clash of Civilizations 1. Europe and China 2. To Prostrate Oneself Might be Right – though Not Always 3. Macartney’s Genuflection 4. A Clash of Civilizations Chapter Five: Proskýnesis in the Euroasiatic Continent. Unity and Diversity 1. The Persian Model 2. Callisthenes’s Model 3. The Mongolian Model 4. The Indian Models 5. The Chinese Model 6. The Byzantine Model 7. The European Model 8. Heracles’s Model Conclusion Dialogue between the Old Oligarch and the Neo-illuminist A Short Glossary of the Main Terms and the Main Characters Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisYouth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia’s youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education; friendship; work; leisure; sexuality; religion - described through the lens of the young people themselves.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface: Being Young in Indonesia, Kathryn Robinson Section 1: Studying Indonesia’s Youth: The Big Picture Chapter 1: Generation and Social Change: Indonesian Youth in Comparative Perspective, Ben White Chapter 2: Contemporary Indonesian Youth Transitions: Trends and Inequalities, Pam Nilan, Lyn Parker, Kathryn Robinson and Linda Bennett Section 2: Education—Securing Youth Futures? Chapter 3: Teenage Experiences of School, Work, and Life in a Javanese Village, Ben White and C. Ugik Margiyatin Chapter 4: Educational Aspirations and Inter-generational Relations in Sorowako, Kathryn Robinson Section 3: Friendship, Growing up, and Peer Surveillance Chapter 5: Pouring out One’s Heart: Close Friendships among Minangkabau Young People, Lyn Parker Chapter 6: Pramuka: Scouting Days of Fun, Pujo Semedi Section 4: Performing Youth in Space and Time Chapter 7: Dwindling Space and Expanding Worlds for Youth in Rural and Urban Yogyakarta, Patrick Guinness Chapter 8: Local Modernities: Young Women Socializing Together, Pam Nilan Section 5: Performing Masculinity, Claiming the Street Chapter 9: Streetwise Masculinity and Other Urban Performances of Postwar Ambon: A Photo-Essay, Patricia Spyer Chapter 10: Violent Activism, Islamist Ideology, and the Conquest of Public Space among Youth in Indonesia, Noorhaidi Hasan Section 6: “Moral Panics” and the Health of the Nation Chapter 11: The Ongoing Culture Debate: Female Youth and Pergaulan (Bebas) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tracy Wright Webster Chapter 12: Young Sasak Mothers—“Tidak Manja Lagi”: Transitioning from Single Daughter to Young Married Mother in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia, Linda Rae Bennett Index

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Book SynopsisNigel Harris’s Selected Essays: From National Liberation to Globalisation presents an encompassing overview of the work of one of the most prolific and insightful Marxist economists of the second half of the twentieth century. It starts off with a new interview in which Harris reflects on the development of his thought over the more than half a century separating the death of Stalin from the latest developments in globalisation and capitalist restructuring. The collected essays deal with topics ranging from imperialism and the state to the political economy of development and migration, and offer an ample selection from Harris’s political journalism. Together the work constitutes at once a personal journey through the history of the British revolutionary left and a trenchant commentary on some of the most fundamental problems facing a renewed Marxist theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Interview with Nigel Harris Imperialism and the World Order 1.1 Imperialism Today 1.2 How Should We Characterise the World Order? Reflections on Callinicos’s Imperialism and Global Political Economy 1.3 Can the West Survive? 1.4 On Economic Globalisation, Neo-Liberalism and the Nature of the Period The State and Economic Development 2.1 The ‘Scissors Crisis in India and China’ 2.2 Agriculture, Peasants and Accumulation 2.3 The Revolutionary Role of the Peasantry 2.4 China, Decentralisation and Development 2.5 New Bourgeoisies? 2.6 Nationalism and Development 2.7 The War-Making State and Privatisation 2.8 The Rise and Fall of the Concept of ‘National Economic Development’ Issues in Political Economy 3.1 Food, Development and Crisis 3.2 Deindustrialisation 3.3 The Road from 1910 3.4 Trade in Early India: Themes in Indian History Migration 4.1 The New Untouchables: The International Migration of Labour 4.2 The Economics and Politics of the Free Movement of People 4.3 Immigration and State Power 4.4 The Freedom to Move Journalism and Shorter Pieces 5.1 Japan: From the Other Side of the Hill 5.2 Nicaragua: 1979 5.3 Vietnam: Old Men Remember 5.4 Tehran Diary 5.5 Churchill: A Ruling-Class Militant 5.6 Two Notes on a Visit to the United States 5.7 Rip van Winkle in China 5.8 Apartheid is Dead! Long Live Apartheid! 5.9 Korea’s New Revolution 5.10 Structural Adjustment in Romania 5.11 Forms of Compulsion 5.12 Economic Fusion, Political Fission 5.13 Mexico’s Tiananmen Square 5.14 Peru: Emerging from the Crisis 5.15 Vietnam: Back at the Beginning 5.16 Lebanon: There is Life after Death 5.17 Moscow’s Migrants 5.18 Indonesia: The Year of Anniversaries 5.19 The First Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962: Fifty Years On Bibliography of Nigel Harris’s Writings References Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal Labour History has firmly established itself in the past three decades. This anthology provides an overview of the conceptual aspects of the discipline and is underpinned by case and field studies from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and China. It is dedicated to Marcel van der Linden, the doyen of, and networker for, Global Labour History.Table of ContentsPreface  Karl Heinz Roth List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Marcel van der Linden – Networker 1 Marcel van der Linden and the International Institute of Social History on the Road to Global Labour History: A Personal Account  Karin Hofmeester 2 Dialogues across Borders: Marcel van der Linden and the Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH)  Chitra Joshi, Prabhu P. Mohapatra and Rana P. Behal 3 Marcel van der Linden and the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)  David Mayer and Berthold Unfried 4 Marcel van der Linden – Friend of the Foundation for Social History of the Twentieth Century  Angelika Ebbinghaus Field and Case Studies 5 Slaveries and the Enslaved in Spanish America: Thoughts on the ‘World Working Class’ in a Historical Global Perspective  Michael Zeuske 6 Potosí’s Silver and the Global World of Trade (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)  Rossana Barragán Romano 7 Chronicle of a Strike Foretold: Abadan, July 1946  Touraj Atabaki 8 Petitioning as Industrial Bargaining in a Turkish State Factory: The Changing Nature of Petitioning in an Early Republican State Factory  Görkem Akgöz 9 Chinese Workers in Global Production and Local Resistance  Jenny Chan Methodological and Conceptual Aspects 10 On the Road to Global Labour History – via Comparison  Peter Alexander 11 Migration Research in a Global Perspective: Recent Developments  Dirk Hoerder 12 Labour Flexibility and Labour Precariousness as Conceptual Tools for the Historical Study of the Interactions among Labour Relations  Christian G. De Vito 13 Re-assessing Labour and Value Transfer under Capitalism  Andrea Komlosy Marcel van der Linden – His Intellectual Development 14 An Encyclopaedist of Critical Thought: Marcel van der Linden, Heterodox Marxism and Global Labour History  Karl Heinz Roth Marcel van der Linden: A Bibliography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe life of legendary revolutionary fighter and journalist Larisa Reisner (1895–1926) is set against the world-shaking events of 1917, and draws on material recently released from the Soviet archives to tell her story through the memories of those close to her, her own voluminous writings, and her six books, to be published together in translation for the first time by Brill with this biography.Table of ContentsList of Figures Timeline Introduction 1 Childhood and Exile 2 Student Life 3 Poets and War 4 In Petrograd 5 Red Kronstadt 6 Bolshevik Russia 7 ‘Unforgettable 1918’ 8 Svyazhsk 9 Reds and Whites 10 From Moscow to the Caspian 11 Rabfaks and Commissars 12 Afghanistan 13 The New Culture 14 Berlin and Hamburg 15 Across Workers’ Russia 16 Seifullina and Alyosha 17 Germany and China 18 ‘How Extraordinary to Be Alive’ 19 Afterlife Appendix: Figures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKazimierz Kelles-Krauz was an extraordinary figure on the Polish political scene at the turn of the 20th century. A Marxist and patriot, academic and politician, Kelles-Krauz was most known for his efforts to reconcile the needs of the nation with international socialism. This volume, however, offers a selection of his writings centred on the history of ideas, published for the first time in English. Kelles-Krauz’s works, while Marxist at heart, linked ideas stemming from the concepts of German idealists, French positivists, as well as contemporary sociologists who offered a bridge between research on individuals and the workings of social systems. Kelles-Krauz, however, repeatedly transcended Marxist tenets, focusing on the construction of traditions, social norms, and the social role of art. This edited volume was first published in Polish as Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz: Marksizm a socjologia. Wybór pism by Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego in 2014. This current work has been revised and translated into English.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Revised Introduction to the English Edition: Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz’s Theory, Practice, and Purposeless Change. by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer 1 The Sociological Law of Retrospection: The Law of Revolutionary Retrospection as a Consequence of Economic Materialism 2 The Golden Age, State of Nature, and Development in Contradictions: From Studies into the Sources of Marxism 3 Comtism and Marxism: Positivism and the Monistic Comprehension of History 4 A Glance at the Development of Sociology in the 19th Century 5 The Crisis of Marxism: On the So-Called ‘Crisis of Marxism’ 6 What is Economic Materialism? 7 A Few Main Principles in the Development of Art 8 Psychiatry and the Science of Ideas 9 The Social Dialectic in Vico’s Philosophy Bibliography Directory of Persons Referenced Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisEmpiriomonism is Alexander Bogdanov’s scientific-philosophical substantiation of Marxism. In Books One and Two, he combines Ernst Mach’s and Richard Avenarius’s neutral monist philosophy with the theory of psychophysical parallelism and systematically demonstrates that human psyches are thoroughly natural and are subject to nature’s laws. In Book Three, Bogdanov argues that empiriomonism is superior to G. V. Plekhanov’s outdated materialism and shows how the principles of empiriomonism solve the basic problem of historical materialism: how a society’s material base causally determines its ways of thinking. Bogdanov concludes that empiriomonism is of the same order as materialist systems, and, since it is the ideology of the productive forces of society, it is a Marxist philosophy.Trade Review"As Bazarov mentions, one of the concepts with a great variety of applications in Tektology is the ‘law of the leasts’, the fact that people and things take the path of least resistance. This has certainly applied to the way Bogdanov’s ideas have been treated over the years. Instead of investigating what Bogdanov actually wrote, verdicts stemming from Lenin and Plekhanov have been repeated uncritically. This was understandable so long as Bogdanov’s works remained inaccessible. With this translation of Empiriomonism, this need no longer be the case." - James D. White, University of Glasgow, in: Europe-Asia Studies 72/10 (2020) "… Rowley’s excellent translation will not only permit a wide new audience to explore the grand systems and historical forays of Bogdanov’s Empiriomonism – it also illuminates a particular moment where various strains of Marxism debated the very relationship between understanding and changing the world: a generative conflict between Bogdanov and Lenin." - Nicholas Bujalski, in: Marx and Philosophy Review of Books (2021) [Full review]Table of ContentsPreface The Autobiography of Alexander Bogdanov Bogdanov as a Thinker  V.A. Bazarov Book One 1 The Ideal of Cognition (Empiriomonism of the Physical and the Psychical) 2 Life and the Psyche  1 The Realm of Experiences  2 Psychoenergetics  3 The Monist Conception of Life 3 Universum (Empiriomonism of the Separate and the Continuous) Conclusion to Book One Book Two 4 The ‘Thing-in-Itself’ from the Perspective of Empiriomonism 5 Psychical Selection (Empiriomonism in the Theory of the Psyche)  1 Foundations of the Method  2 Applications of the Method (Illustrations) 6 Two Theories of the Vital-Differential Book Three 7 Preface to Book Three  1 Three Materialisms  2 Energetics and Empiriocriticism  3 The Path of Empiriomonism  4 Regarding Eclecticism and Monism 8 Social Selection (Foundations of the Method) 9 Historical Monism  1 Main Lines of Development  2 Classes and Groups 10 Self-Awareness of Philosophy (The Origin of Empiriomonism) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection addresses broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the framework of vernacular cosmopolitanism. With a common anthropological focus, the essays map literary and artistic practices involving cross-cultural transactions shaped by social forces, institutions, and the multiple mediations of the imagination. Some essays are based on community-based fieldwork, while all encompass an affective immersion in the places we inhabit, and the claims these make on the body’s intelligibility. The authors consider the role of artists, writers, and literary scholars as cultural actors in a variety of settings, grassroots, regional, trans-regional, and global. Topics include: the role of social and cultural activism; the problematic dimensions of national belonging; the plurality of knowledge-systems and inter-language environ-mental learning in South Africa; the vernacular imagination in Papua New Guinea Anglophone fiction; pulp fiction and chick lit in India; transformative artistic motifs of Australia’s nomadic Tiwi community; life writing as a reconfiguring of postcolonial or cosmopolitan paradigms; southern African supernatural belief-systems and the malign magic of the global economy; Canadian First Nations literature read against the struggle for self-determination by India’s castes and scheduled tribes; feral animals in relation to the indigenous exotic; and the imbrication of the vernacular, national, colonial, and cosmopolitan in perceptions of homecoming in the eastern Mediterranean. The collection as a whole thus provides manifestations of poesis in relation to theory and praxis and articulates perspectives that expand, challenge, strengthen, and renew the potential for growth in contemporary world literature and culture.Trade Review"Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination is an impressive collection for its recondite arguments and relevant case studies of translational transcultural exchange that collectively endeavour to reconfigure the vernacular and the cosmopolitan. In sum, it expands and challenges cosmopolitan’s post-Enlightenment positioning and embrace of hybridity, transculturalism, and citizenship in relation to the vernacular, while McDougall’s concluding integrationist angle moves the debate into another, related realm of enquiry. This excellent scholarly volume is a tribute to its ACLALS editors and contributors and a worthy successor to others in the Cross/Cultures series." - Janet Wilson (University of Northampton), Recherche littéraire, literary research 34, Summer 2018.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements STEPHANOS STEPHANIDES AND STAVROS S. KARAYANNI: Introduction: Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination:The Intimate Estrangement of Homecoming GEOFFREY V. DAVIS: Doing the Right Thing: ACLALS, Social Change, and Cultural Activism ELSIE CLOETE: “There’s a Meat Down There”: An Essay on English and the Environment in Africa DIANA WOOD CONROY: Vernacular Patterns in Flux: Mirroring Change in an Aboriginal Workshop, Tiwi Designs, Northern Australia FELICITY WOOD: Wealth-Giving Mermaid Women and the Malign Magic of the Market: Contemporary Oral Accounts of the South African mamlambo “Travelling Knowledges”: ‘Practising’ DEBASH REE DATTARAY: Indigenous Literatures in the Indian University PADMI NI MONGIA: What About Shobhaa Dé? Indian Pulp Fiction Meets Indian Writing in English PAUL SHARRAD : “Ghem pona wai?”: Vernacular Imaginations in Contemporary Papua New Guinea Fiction PAUL STEWART: Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee: Narrative Power and the Postcolonial VICTOR J. RAMRAJ : Language and Perception: Reinstating the Individual in Postcolonial Literary Studies RUSSELL MCDOUGALL: Indigenous Exotic: Cosmopolitan Dingoes and Brumbies NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisIn Architecture, Power and Religion in Lebanon, Ward Vloeberghs explores Rafiq Hariri’s patronage and his posthumous legacy to demonstrate how religious architecture becomes a site for power struggles in contemporary Beirut. By tracing the 150 year-long history of the Muhammad al-Amin Mosque – Lebanon’s principal Sunni mosque – and the subsequent development of the site as a commemoration venue, this account offers a unique illustration of how architecture, religion and power become discursively and visually entangled. Set in a multi-confessional society marked by social inequalities and political fragmentation, this interdisciplinary study analyses how architectural practice and urban reconfigurations reveal a nascent personality cult, communal mourning, and the consolidation of political territory in relation to constantly shifting circumstances.

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Book SynopsisGenetic Transparency? tackles the question of who has, or should have access to personal genomic information. Genomic science is revolutionary in how it changes the way we live, individually and together, and how it changes the shape of society. If this is so, then – the authors of this volume claim – the rules that regulate genetic transparency should be debated carefully, openly and critically. It is important to see that the social and cultural meanings of DNA and genetic sequences are much richer than can be accounted for by purely biomedical knowledge. In this book, an international group of leading genomics experts and scholars from the humanities and social sciences discuss how the new accessibility of genomic information affects interpersonal relationships, our self-understandings, ethics, law, and healthcare systems. Contributors are: Kirsten Brukamp, Gabrielle Christenhusz, Lorraine Cowley, Malte Dreyer, Jeanette Erdmann, Andrei Famenka, Teresa Finlay, Caroline Fündling, Shannon Gibson, Cathy Herbrand, Angeliki Kerasidou, Lene Koch, Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor, Tim Ohnhäuser, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Benedikt Reiz, Vasilja Rolfes, Sara TocchettiTrade Review"Well worth reading!" – in: Making Science Public (University of Nottingham Blogs)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Malte Dreyer and Jeanette Erdmann 1. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter and Malte Dreyer: The Idea of ‘Genes’ and Their ‘Transparency’ 2. Benedikt Reiz, Jeanette Erdmann and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter: Making Genomes Visible 3. Angeliki Kerasiou, Cathy Herbrand and Malte Dreyer: Who is the Subject of Genetic Responsibility? 4. Teresa Finlay, Shannon Gibson, Lene Koch and Sara Toccheti: Personal Genomics: Transparent to Whom? 5. Kirsten Brukamp, Gabrielle M. Christenhusz and Caroline Fündling: Genetic Transparency versus Genetic Privacy – The Complex Ethics of Genetic Testing in Humans 6. Andrei Famenka, Shannon Gibson and Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor: Understanding the Complexity of Regulation in an Evolving Health Technology Landscape 7. Gabrielle M. Christenhusz, Lorraine Cowley, Tim Ohnhäuser and Vasilija Rolfes: Genetic Transparency – Transparency of Communication About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a critical re-assessment of the thought of Ernst Bloch, best-known for his groundbreaking study The Principle of Hope and one of the most significant European thinkers and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. It explores Bloch’s life, work and reception; his debt to Marx and Hegel; his central concepts of hope and utopia; his affinities with philosophers such as Gramsci and Žižek; and his radical reframing of our understanding of history, society and culture. Above all, this volume examines the relevance of Bloch’s ideas today, in a world still shot through with economic inequality and social injustice. Contributors are: Agata Bielik-Robson, Ivan Boldyrev, Henk de Berg, Sam Dolbear, Vincent Geoghegan, Holger Glinka, Loren Goldman, Douglas Kellner, Cat Moir, Jan Rehmann, Nina Rismal, Johan Siebers, and Peter ThompsonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Ernst Bloch: Life Work – Reception  Cat Moir 2 Will There Be Nothing Rather Than Something? Ernst Bloch’s Overcoming of Gnosticism  Agata Bielik-Robson 3 Art, History and the Language of Death: Bloch’s The Spirit of Utopia between Hegel and Derrida  Ivan Boldyrev 4 Between Dialectics and Metaphysics: Critical Reflections on Bloch’s Subjekt-Objekt  Henk de Berg 5 Bloch’s Commentary on Marx’s ‘Theses on Feuerbach’ in The Principle of Hope  Vincent Geoghegan 6 Natural Law in the Ideas of Bloch, Hegel and Marxism  Holger Glinka 7 The Matter of Bloch’s Philosophy of Nature in the Shadow of Idealism  Loren Goldman 8 Ernst Bloch’s Utopian Philosophy: From Hegel to Marx and Beyond  Douglas Kellner 9 What Can We Hope For? Reading Ernst Bloch with Antonio Gramsci  Jan Rehmann 10 The Possibility of Envisioning Utopias  Nina Rismal 11 Hegel, Marx, Bloch: On the Margins of the Spirit  Johan Siebers and Sam Dolbear 12 Something’s Missing: Bloch’s Unfinished Project of Humanity  Peter Thompson Index

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Book SynopsisImperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities is a book about a cosmopolitan city written by a cosmopolitan scholar with a literary flair. Evrydiki Sifneos conceives Odessa as more of a fin-de siècle east Mediterranean port-metropolis than as a provincial port-city of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century due to two of its principal characteristics: its function as a hub of international trade and travel, and the multi-ethnic character of its inhabitants. The book unfolds around two interpenetrating axes. The first one introduces a new "peripatetic" approach that discovers the space of the city; and the other, the one that has given it its dynamic, is the socio-economic transformations that germinated within the political changes.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction: Of Peripatetic and Other Approaches to Odessa’s History  1 The Peripatetic Approach  2 The Socio-economic Approach 1 Port: Mobility and Ethnic Pluralism  1 Port-City Identities and Cosmopolitanism  2 Enlightened Administrators  3 The People of the Port  4 Influences from Without and Within  5 The Connectedness of Odessa  6 Travel Destination and Relay  7 The Demographic Snapshot  8 Residential Porosity: The Mikhel’son Apartment Building in Aleksandrovskii District  9 Images, Representations, Comparisons 2 Toward a Consumer Society: Tastes, Markets and Political Liberalism  1 The Rise of a Consumer Society  2 Markets  3 Provisioning the City  4 Profile of the Merchant-Entrepreneurs Involved in Foreign Trade and Their Specialisations  5 Patterns of Successful Business  6 The Evolution of Markets in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century  7 Political Liberalism: The Parallel Activity of the Union of Welfare and the Greek Secret Society  8 Imagining Greece’s Independence in Odessa’s Greek Market  9 History of the Philiki Etaireia  10 Facilitating Factors for Political Fermentation  11 The Commercial Outlook of the Greek Society of Friends 3 Merchants and Entrepreneurs: The Driving Forces of Odessa’s Economy  1 Industry in Odessa  2 Types of Entrepreneurs and Strategies  3 The Port and the Exporter  4 Middlemen: The Period of Transition  5 Real Estate Owners in Odessa  6 The Diversified Entrepreneur  7 The “Political” Entrepreneur  8 At the Commercial Court  9 Transcending Communal Boundaries in Capital Raising 4 The Springtime of the Public Sphere  1 Public Spaces  2 Civil Society?  3 Associations, Societies, Professional Societies  4 Workers’ Associations  5 Ethnic Minority Associations  6 Charity as a Culture  7 Án Example of Commercial Charity: The Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa  8 Towards a Longed-for Multi-Ethnic Society: Odessa 1907–1914 5 The Two Sides of the Moon: Ethnic Clashes and Tolerance in a Cosmopolitan City  1 Co-existence and Tolerance in the Upper Classes  2 Rivalry in the Middle Classes  3 Separation and Conflict in the Lower Strata  4 Crisis Management and the Responsibilities of the Local Authorities  5 Stereotypes  6 Impact of the Pogroms and Civic Drawbacks  7 Non-ethnic Violence 6 The End of a Cosmopolitan Port-City  1 Áftermath: The Four Stories  2 Politicization during the School Years   2.1 Gymnasia Militancy   2.2 Acquaintances   2.3 The Illegal Literature  3 Between Judicial Responsibility, Passion for Music and Revolution   3.1 1918 – Law Service, Music and German Occupation   3.2 1919 – Farewell to the Violoncello  4 Between War and Revolution   4.1 The February Revolution   4.2 The October Revolution   4.3 The Bolsheviks in Odessa (January–March)   4.4 Odessa under Austro-German Occupation (March–November 1918)   4.5 The Allied Intervention (French and Greeks in Odessa) – December 1918–March 1919   4.6 The Departure  5 At the Gen Factory in Peresyp’   5.1 Ideology and Workers’ Demands in 1917   5.2 The Battle for the Eight-Hour Workday   5.3 Bombshells into Ploughshares   5.4 At Odessa’s Companies   5.5 The “Sale” of the Factory  6 Peoples and Identities  7 Epilogue Appendix Bibliography Index of Names Index of Places Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThe Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, life stories, and live performances offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics and the contingencies of state borders. Decades of oppression have deeply politicized and moralized cultural and musical production. Through in-depth ethnographic analysis Hamelink highlights the variety of personal and social narratives within a society in turmoil. Set within the larger global stories of modernity, nationalism, and Orientalism, this study reflects on different ideas about what it means to create a Kurdish home.Trade Review"...an excellent bridge between the Kurdish past and the current state of social reorganization, taking place amid the impact of modernity, artfully discerned from the songs, laments, and stories sung/narrated by the dengbêj. It captures some crucial historical, social, political, and cultural dynamics that have shaped the collective Kurdish experience." Ozan Aksoy in Bustan Vol. 8, No. 2 , 2017.Table of ContentsList of participating performers List of songs discussed List of figures, maps and tables List of terms and abbreviations Notes on language use and translation Acknowledgements Introduction i.1 The Sung Home 2 i.2 Some notes on the dengbêj art 17 i.3 Folklore, nationalism, and (self-)Orientalism in Turkey 31 i.4 Narrative and morality 50 i.5 Engaged writing 56 i.6 Chapter outline 58 Part I Songs and Performance Chapter 1. ‘My heart is on fire.’ Singing a Kurdish past. Introduction 63 1.1 The kilams and the corpus 69 1.2 Time, place, and figures 1.3 Women and men 73 1.4 Elite and commoners 86 1.5 Armenians 90 1.6 Local leaders in battle songs 96 1.7 A Kurdish geography: place names and landscape marks 108 1.8 Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state 111 1.9 Evdalê Zeynikê: the dengbêj as a figure 122 Conclusion 126 Chapter 2. ‘It would disappear in a moment.’ Performing tradition. 131 Introduction 132 2.1 The empersonment of Kurdishness 135 2.2 The Diyarbakır Dengbêj House and its dengbêjs 138 2.3 Performing the village 145 2.4 Tribes and battles 154 2.5 Rebellions and tribes in performance 159 Conclusion 179 Part II Life stories 183 Chapter 3. ‘A language is a life, and art is a bracelet.’ A landscape of silence. 184 Introduction 185 Life story 1: Politicization of Kurdish language and culture 191 Life story 2: A female dengbêj 201 Life story 3: Landlords and support 214 Life story 4: Armenian voices 222 Life story 5: The religious class 236 Life story 6: Turkish experiences 245 Life story 7: The prohibition on musical instruments 251 Conclusion 262 Part III Conflict and Activism 266 Chapter 4. ‘Decorate your heart with the voice of the dengbêjs.’ Cultural activism. 267 Introduction 268 4.1 Kurdish television in Europe 278 4.2 Zana Güneş and TV activism 285 4.3 The Dengbêj House in Diyarbakır 291 4.4 Zeki Barış and activism in the House 298 4.5 Individual dengbêjs referring to political narratives 302 4.6 Istanbul, a market for dengbêjs 312 Conclusion 320 Chapter 5. Songs crossing borders: musical memories of a family on the run. 324 Introduction 325 5.1 Context and history 331 5.2 Experiencing borders 356 5.3 The embodied experience of singing songs 365 5.4 Resignifying cultural memory and redefining the position of women 367 Conclusion 377 Bibliography 396 General index

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Book SynopsisDaniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager is the first systematic full-length study of Bensaïd’s renovation of Marxism. Bensaïd, a student leader during the May '68 revolt and founder of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, was an exemplar of a creative and open liberatory Marxism, leaving a vast oeuvre for a new generation of Marxists to explore. Much of Bensaïd’s writing remains untranslated into English, and Roso’s volume offers a comprehensive critical overview.Table of ContentsForeword Foreword: The Power of Imagination Acknowledgements Introduction: Fitting the Bow for the Renewal of Marxism Part 1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin in the Early Years 1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin 2 Revolution and Power 3 The Dark Years of Readjustment Part 2 New Inventions and Illuminations 4 History Has Two Faces 5 Marx from Beneath the Ruins 6 Ready to Roll the Dice? Part 3 Open-ended Conjunctural Judgements 7 The Return of the Social Question 8 Who Is the Judge? 9 Smile of the Frightful Hobgoblin Part 4 Bensaïd and His Contemporaries 10 Althusser: Trapped in Stalin’s Glass Jar 11 Negri: The Dissolution of Politics into Violence 12 Badiou: A Distant Companion 13 Derrida: Fellow Marrano Part 5 Strategic Thinking to Break the Reproduction of Fetishism and Domination 14 Praising the Profane 15 Commodity Fetishism Conclusion: Pointing Towards Spaces of Liberation Appendix: Daniel Bensaïd’s Melancholic Wager Jury D’habilitation 2005 (by Way of an Introduction)  Michael Löwy References Index

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Book SynopsisVittorio Cotesta’s The Heavens and the Earth traces the origin of the images of the world typical of the Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese and Medieval Islamic civilisations. Each of them had its own peculiar way of understanding the universe, life, death, society, power, humanity and its destiny. The comparative analysis carried out here suggests that they all shared a common human aspiration despite their differences: human being is unique; differences are details which enrich its image. Today, the traditions derived from these civilisations are often in competition and conflict. Reference to a common vision of humanity as a shared universal entity should lead, instead, to a quest for understanding and dialogue.Trade Review"This is a magisterial overview of the formulations of important philosophical topics in three world civilizations. It is framed as a comparative study of the emergence among philosophers, historians, and geographers of a universalistic humanism in these three traditions. Its focus is on the conceptualizations of human nature and the ways in which philosophers, geographers and historians thought about ‘others.’ But it also provides an insightful and enlightening overview of ontology, geography, scientific and historical epistemology – the nature of reality, the known world, time, space and theories of eternity and creation." — Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California-Riverside "A monumental work on the longue durée of the Eurasian world history and civilizations." — Mehdi P. Amineh, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsContents Preface List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction: The Axial Age and Global Society Part 1: The Greek and Roman Vision of the World Section 1: The Greek Vision of the World 1 The Universe, Nature and Humanity in Ancient Greece 2 The Political Constitution and Forms of Government  1 Plato’s Utopic Model  2 Aristotle’s politeia as a Form of Mixed Government 3 Herodotus and the Greek Image of a Global Society 4 The Image of Mankind and the Social Bond 5 Chance and Necessity  1 The Movement of Atoms and the Origins of the Universe  2 Life, Death, Happiness 6 God, Nature, Providence  1 The Epistemological Model of Stoicism  2 The Origin and Structure of the Universe  3 Humanity, Society and the State  4 The Happy Life  5 Natural Law and Human Rights Section 2: The Roman Vision of the World, Society and Mankind 7 Polybius and the Roman View of the World  1 The Paradoxes of Polybius’ Existence, from Hostage to Cantor of the Destiny of Rome  2 Polybius and History as a Science of Prevision  3 Rome: Sole World Power 8 Conflict over Rome’s Cultural Identity  1 Tradition and Innovation: Cato the Censor and Scipio Africanus  2 Scipio’s Dream and the Destiny of Rome 9 The Image of Rome and of Her Mission in the World According to Cicero  1 Society, the State and the Law. Rome’s Universal Destiny  2 Global Graeco-Roman Society and Cosmopolitan Law 10 The Empire and Rome’s New Vision of the World 11 Rome and Christianity  1 Incomprehension, Conflict, Convergence 12 The Hellenistic Scientific Revolution and the New World View  1 The Inhabited World Is a Chlamys. On Eratosthenes and His Critics  2 The Star Canopus and New Measurements of the Earth 13 The Geography of the Century of Augustus and First Diplomatic Contact with China  1 Strabo: “Pragmatic” Geography  2 Juba of Mauretania and Exploration of the Sources of the Nile  3 Pliny the Elder: Chinese Silk and the Transparent Robes of the Roman Matrons  4 The Periplous of the Erythrean Sea and the Silent Barter between the Kiratas and the Chinese  5 First Diplomatic Contact with China 14 Claudius Ptolemy and Astrological Previsions of Peoples’ Destinies Part 2: Harmony as the Core of Chinese Image of the World 1 Confucius: The Origin of the Axial Revolution in China  1 The Virtues of the Good Ruler  2 The Dao: The Way to Humanity 2 Mozi and Universal Love 3 Xunzi: The Dark Side of Human Nature 4 Zhuangzi and Lao Tzu: Harmony in Taoist Philosophy  1 The Dao Has No Name  2 Non-action as a Principle of World Governance 5 Legalism: How to Create a Well-Ordered Society  1 Society, History, Power 6 Sima Qian: History and the Identity of Ancient China  1 Herodotus and Sima Qian  2 History and Power in Sima Qian’s Life  3 Dynastic Cycles and History  4 The Social Organisation of the Mongols and Chinese Identity Part 3: Intermezzo 1 Convergences and Divergences between China and Greece  1 The Universe, Heaven and Earth  2 Society and Humanity  3 The State, Power and Politics 2 The Formation of a Eurasian World-System 3 A Shift in the Meaning of “Axial Revolution” Section 1: The Global World from the Islamic Point of View Section 2: Origin and Structure of the Islamic Vision of the World 1 The Preaching of Muhammad and the Birth of Islam 2 God, The Universe and the World According to Islam 3 Al-Kindi: Muhammad and Aristotle  1 The Quest for Truth  2 God and the Creation of the World 4 Al-Farabi I. God, The Universe, The World and the Way to Happiness  1 Introduction  2 God and the Universe  3 Man and Society  4 Happiness, The “Virtuous City” 5 Al-Farabi II. Political Theory and the Doctrine of Perfect Imam  1 Political Regimes  2 The Theory of the Perfect Imam  3 Peace and (Just) War 6 Avicenna I. God, The Cosmos and the World  1 An Adventurous and Dangerous Life  2 God, The Universe, The World 7 Avicenna II. Man, Society and Governance  1 The Happy Life and Man’s Return to God  2 Reason and Mysticism 8 Al-Biruni. I. A Eurasian Vision of the World Biographical, Cultural and Epistemological Premises  1 The Adventurous Life of al-Biruni  2 Time, History and Society  3 The Study of India and of the Identity of Peoples 9 Al-Biruni. II. A Eurasian Vision of the World A Sociological and Anthropological Analysis  1 The Sciences and Social Classes  2 The Indian Castes and the Hierarchical Societies of Eurasia 10 The Islamic Vision of the World and History Al-YaʿQubi, al-Tabari’s and al-MasʿUdi’s Contributions  1 Al-YaʿQubi  2 Al-Tabari  3 Al-MasʿUdi 11 The Islamic Vision of the World and Geography Al-Khwarizmi, Ferdowsi, al-Muqaddasi, al-Idrisi  1 Al-Khwarizmi  2 Ferdowsi, al-Faqih and Other Persian Geographers and Historians  3 Al-Muqaddasi  4 Al-Idrisi’s Universalist Perspective 12 Reason and Mysticism. Al-Ghazali’s Battle against Philosophy  1 The Life of al-Ghazali  2 The Battle against Reason  3 The Virtues of the Intellectual The Western Islamic Vision of the World 13 The Western Pathway to the Construction of the Islamic Image of the World  1 Introduction 14 Alternative Ways to Happiness. Ibn Bajja and Ibn Tufayl  1 The Outsider and the Way to Happiness: Ibn Bajja  2 Ibn Tufayl: Mysticism as a Way to Happiness 15 Averroes. I. The Defense of Reason  1 Introduction  2 The Controversy with al-Ghazali and the Decisive Treaty 16 Averroes. II. A Project for a New World  1 The Ideal City and the Happy Life  2 Societies, Forms of Government, the Virtues of the Good Ruler (Imam)  3 Some Final Observations, in Brief 17 Ibn Khaldun. I. Truth and History  1 A Life Lived between Politics and Study  2 Ibn Khaldun’s Epistemological Model of History  3 Fake News and Historical Truth 18 Ibn Khaldun II. Religions, Society, and Civilisations. Islam’s Universal Mission  1 The Shape of the Earth and the Characteristics of Peoples  2 Cooperation and Society  3 Nomadism and Civilisation  4 Religion as a Factor of Civilisation and of the Universal Mission of Islam Conclusions  1 The Problems and the Research Method  2 The Universe  3 The Issue of Time  4 The Heavens and the Earth  5 The Form of the oikoumene  6 Humanity, Society and Forms of Government  7 Human Nature and Human Rights. Universalism by Halves Bibliography Index of Proper Names Index of Selected Topics, Cities, Countries and Continents

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Book SynopsisIn Hinge Epistemology, eminent epistemologists investigate Wittgenstein's concept of basic certainty or 'hinge certainty'. The volume begins by examining the salient features of 'hinges': Are they propositions that enjoy a special kind of non-evidential justification? Are they objects of knowledge or ways of acting mistaken for known propositions? Various attempts are then made to integrate hinges in the development of a viable epistemology: Can they shed light on the conditions of satisfaction for knowledge and justification? Do they offer a solution to scepticism? Finally, the application of hinges is explored in such areas as common knowledge and intellectual loyalty. The volume attests to the importance of hinge certainty and Wittgenstein's On Certainty for mainstream epistemology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hinge Epistemology, Annalisa Coliva and Danièle Moyal-Sharrock Which Hinge Epistemology?, Annalisa Coliva The Animal in Epistemology, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock Wittgenstein on Mathematics and Certainties, Martin Kusch Miracles, Hinges, and Grammar in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, Luigi Perissinotto ‘Hinge Propositions’ and the ‘Logical’ Exclusion of Doubt, Genia Schönbaumsfeld In Defense of a Critical Commonsensist Conception of Knowledge, Claudine Tiercelin The Sources of Scepticism, Duncan Pritchard Epistemic Norms and the Limits of Epistemology, Pascal Engel After the Spade Turns: Disagreement, First Principles and Epistemic Contractarianism, Michael P. Lynch Wittgenstein and Dretske on Knowledge and Certainty, Yves Bouchard Philosophy Rehinged?, Hans-Johann Glock Common Knowledge, John Greco Intellectual Loyalty, Allan Hazlett

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Book SynopsisIn Santa Bárbara’s Legacy: An Environmental History of Huancavelica, Peru, Nicholas A. Robins presents the first comprehensive environmental history of a mercury producing region in Latin America. Tracing the origins, rise and decline of the regional population and economy from pre-history to the present, Robins explores how people’s multifaceted, intimate and often toxic relationship with their environment has resulted in Huancavelica being among the most mercury-contaminated urban areas on earth. The narrative highlights issues of environmental justice and the toxic burdens that contemporary residents confront, especially many of those who live in adobe homes and are exposed to mercury, as well as lead and arsenic, on a daily basis. The work incorporates archival and printed primary sources as well as scientific research led by the author.Trade Review"Based on a wide range of primary documents, this very accessible and well-researched book on the historical evolution of mercury mining in Peru from the pre-Columbian era to the present explores the characteristics of production and its environmental consequences. [...] Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries" - A. Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles, in: Choice, February 2018Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Glossary xi Introduction 1 1. Huaca-villca: From Geological Formation to Spanish Conquest 21 2. The Pachacuti: Colonization, Catastrophe and the Rise of Mercury 36 3. “A Horrible Business”: The Mita 73 4. The Bourbon Era: Reform and Resentment 96 5. “They All Come to Die”: Mining, Mishaps and Mercurialism 108 6. Desuetude, Decay and Neglect: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 141 Epilogue 155 Bibliography 165 Appendix 199 Table 1 Total mercury (Hg) in soil in mg/kg remedial investigation Huancavelica, Peru 199 Table 2 Total mercury in Earthen homes (dust, walls, floors, and vapor) remedial investigation Huancavelica, Peru 201 Table 3 Mercury, Arsenic and Lead in Huancavelica and area rock samples 2015 pilot study Huancavelica, Peru 2015 pilot study Huancavelica, Peru 204 Table 4 Food stock, water, and sediment sample results 2016 pilot study Huancavelica, Peru 206 Table 5 Residential vapor results 2015 pilot study Huancavelica, Peru 208 Table 6 Soil sample results using X-ray florescence 2016 field event Huancavelica, Peru 209 Table 7 Total mercury in fish tissue 2016 field event Huancavelica, Peru 212 Table 8 Residential sample results using X-ray fluorescence 2016 field event Huancavelica. Peru 213 Index 215

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Book SynopsisThis books aims to further develop theory and practice on people-centred development, in particular on the livelihood approach. It focuses on four contemporary thematic areas, where progress has been booked but also contestation is still apparent: power relations, power struggles and underlying structures; livelihood trajectories and livelihood pathways: house, home and homeland in the context of violence; and mobility and immobility. Contemporary livelihood studies aim to contribute to the understanding of poor people’s lives with the ambition to enhance their livelihoods. Nowadays livelihood studies work from an holistic perspective on how the poor organize their livelihoods, in order to understand their social exclusion and to contribute to interventions and policies that intend to countervail that. Contributors are: Clare Collingwood Esland, Ine Cottyn, Jeanne de Bruijn, Leo de Haan, Charles do Rego, Benjamin Etzold, Urs Geiser, Jan Willem le Grand, Griet Steel, Paul van Lindert, Annelies Zoomers.Trade Review'The subtitle New Perspectives is amply justified. For the understanding of livelihoods the six case studies and the concepts which both frame and derive from them break new ground with significant contemporary relevance. The cases include migrants, refugees, people in insecure and conflicted conditions, and rural people subject to rapid changes in policy, mobility, digital connectivity, rural-urban links and scope for networking. The vocabulary and lenses of the authors illuminate the changing nature of livelihoods for many poor and marginalised people. New perspectives are opened up by concepts such as livelihood trajectories, community pathways, translocal livelihoods, exclusionary processes, the everyday production of inequality, intangible forms of mobilities, geographies of fear and the control of space. Livelihoods and Development is a rich treasury of grounded insights which broaden and deepen our understanding and shed new light on the complexity, diversity and versatility of ever evolving livelihoods. It is essential reading to inform, inspire and extend the range of all who teach and research livelihoods. It has much too for thoughtful policy-makers and practitioners who wish to improve what they do in seeking to ‘leave no one behind’. I commend it to a wide audience. It is conceptually transformative. After this book, livelihood studies should never be quite the same again'. Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1 From Poverty to Social Exclusion: A Livelihoods Introductory Leo de Haan Chapter 2 Understanding Poverty, Defining Interventions: Why Social Relations Need More Attention in Livelihoods Analyses and Why This Complicates Development Practice Urs Geiser Chapter 3 Mobility, Space and Livelihood Trajectories: New Perspectives on Migration, Translocality and Place-making for Livelihood Studies Benjamin Etzold Chapter 4 Social Inclusion and Sustainable Livelihood Trajectories of Portuguese Immigrants in Curaçao: From Contracted Oil-Workers through Agro-Commercial Entrepreneurship to Business Elite Charles do Rego and Jeanne de Bruijn Chapter 5 Two Decades of Livelihood Transformation and Community Pathways in the Bolivian Andes Jan Willem le Grand and Annelies Zoomers Chapter 6 Defending Homeland and Regaining Freedoms: Interpreting Livelihoods Among Conflict-Affected Communities in Southern Lebanon Clare Collingwood Esland Chapter 7 New Connections – New Dependencies: Spatial and Digital Flows in sub-Saharan African Livelihoods Griet Steel, Ine Cottyn and Paul van Lindert Chapter 8 Power and Pathways, Violent Conflict and Mobility: Empirical Findings and Conceptual Innovations in Livelihoods Studies Leo de Haan Authors Index

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Book SynopsisThis Festschrift for Reinhard Schulze focusses on a life-long concern of his, namely the relationship between Islam and modernity. The contributors reflect upon the academic study of Islam, Islamic cultures of knowledge, media and literature, and current societal processes. Diese Festschrift für Reinhard Schulze widmet sich einem Lebensthema des Jubilars, nämlich der Beziehung von Islam und Moderne. Die Beiträge reflektieren akademische Forschung zu Islam, islamische Wissenskulturen, Medien und Literatur, sowie gegenwärtige Prozesse in nahöstlichen Gesellschaften.Table of ContentsDanksagung Liste der Tabellen und Abbildungen Bildnachweis Liste der Beitragenden Tabula gratulatoria Einleitung  Florian Zemmin, Johannes Stephan und Monica Corrado Islam(wissenschaft), Religion und der Eigensinn der Moderne 1 Implausibility and Probability in Studies of Paleo-Qurʾanic Genesis  Aziz Al-Azmeh 2 Carl Heinrich Beckers „Lehnswesen“-Aufsatz von 1914 und seine Wirkung  Jürgen Paul 3 Genealogien des Religionsbegriffes und die Grenzen der Religionsfreiheit in Europa  Frank Peter 4 Nur wer β sagt, kann auch α sagen: Zu Reinhard Schulzes Ansatz der ‚retrospektiven Genealogie‘  Volkhard Krech 5 Islam, Buddhismus und die Frage nach dem „Kanon der Religionswissenschaft“  Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz 6 Islamische Gewalt im Lichte des Thomas-Theorems  Hans G. Kippenberg 7 Wider die islamische Exzeptionalität: Zur (Inter-)Disziplinarität der Islamwissenschaft am Beispiel des Salafismus  Florian Zemmin Islamische Wissenskulturen und Normativität 8 Die Ordnung der Gesellschaft: soziale Kategorisierungen in osmanischen politischen Texten des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts  Felix Konrad 9 Rethinking Authority: Trends in Eighteenth-Century Hadith Studies  Ahmad Dallal 10 The Islamic Eighteenth Century: A View from the Edge  Albrecht Hofheinz 11 Lokale Moderne: Ḥasan al-Bannā und die Idee eines „zeitgemäßen Islam“  Gudrun Krämer 12 Civility and Charisma in the Long-Term Genesis of Political Modernity within the Islamic Ecumene  Armando Salvatore Sprache und Literatur als Medien der Moderne 13 Von der „Bauernsprache“ zur „Ursprache“: Die Entstehung der türkischen Nationalsprache  Hüseyin Ağuiçenoğlu 14 Literarische Salons im Indien des 18. Jahrhunderts: Ein Beitrag zur Moderne im Islam?  Jamal Malik 15 Eine Maqama als romantisches Experiment: Šihāb ad-Dīn al-Ālūsī (1802–1854) und „Das Gurren der Turteltaube im Viertel der Qamariyya-Schule“  Stefan Reichmuth 16 Zwei „Königinnen des Mittelmeers“ im Vergleich: Triestliteratur und die Literatur Alexandrias  Susanne Enderwitz 17 Erzählweisen und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Bemerkungen zu al-Qunfuḏ von Zakaria Tamer  Peter Dové 18 Die Grenzen des adab: Versuch über eine literaturhistorische Hermeneutik  Johannes Stephan Islam(wissenschaft) in der Öffentlichkeit und die Rolle der Medien 19 Cairo After the Event: Fiction and Everyday Life  Mona Abaza 20 Fördert arabische Populärkultur die Individualisierung? Anschlussdiskurse der Fernsehnutzung bei jungen Ägyptern  Anne Grüne und Kai Hafez 21 The Role of Social Media in Democratisation Processes: An Iranian Case Study  Katajun Amirpur 22 A Losing Battle? “Islamwissenschaft” in Times of Neoliberalism, IS, PEGIDA … and Trump  Stephan Guth 23 Der Rechtsnationalismus als Spiegelbild des Islamismus: Ein journalistischer Essay  Yves Wegelin 24 „Ich will nicht zu kritisch mit meinem eigenen Fach sein“: Reinhard Schulze im Gespräch mit Anna Trechsel Die Wissenschaftlerpersönlichkeit Reinhard Schulze 25 Forschungsdesigner – Wissenschaftsmanager – Hochschulpolitiker  Anke von Kügelgen 26 Struggling with Schulze  Michael Kemper 27 Schriftenverzeichnis Reinhard Schulzes Personen-, Orts- und Sachindex / Index of persons, places, and subjects

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