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Sage Publications Ltd Aesthetic Labour
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Vintage Publishing The Cubans Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
Book SynopsisAnthony DePalma is the author of City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance and 9/11, The Man Who Invented Fidel and Here: A Biography of the New American Continent. For much of his twenty-two years as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, his work focused on Latin America, and he continues to write for the newspaper as well as other publications.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marx's Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists
Book SynopsisHow did our current society come into being and how is it similar to as well as different from its predecessors? These key questions have transfixed archaeologists, anthropologists and historians for decades and strike at the very heart of intellectual debate across a wide range of disciplines. Yet scant attention has been given to the key thinkers and theoretical traditions that have shaped these debates and the conclusions to which they have given rise. This pioneering book explores the profound influence of one such thinker - Karl Marx - on the course of twentieth-century archaeology. Patterson reveals how Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe in the late 1920s was the first to synthesize discourses from archaeologists, sociologists, and Marxists to produce a corpus of provocative ideas. He analyzes how these ideas were received and rejected, and moves on to consider such important developments as the emergence of a new archaeology in the 1960s and an explicitly Marxist strand of archaeology in the 1970s. Specific attention is given to the discussion arenas of the 1990s, where archaeologists of differing theoretical perspectives debated issues of historic specificity, social transformation, and inter-regional interaction. How did the debates in the 1990s pave the way for historical archaeologists to investigate the interconnections of class, gender, ethnicity, and race? In what ways did archaeologists make use of Marxist concepts such as contradiction and exploitation, and how did they apply Marxist analytical categories to their work? How did varying theoretical groups critique one another and how did they overturn or build upon past generational theories?Marxs Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists provides an accessible guide to the theoretical arguments that have influenced the development of Anglophone archaeology from the 1930s onwards. It will prove to be indispensable for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and social and cultural theorTrade Review'Marx's Ghost successfully explains Marx's varied influences in the arcaeology of the formation of class and state structures...It is direct, clear and readily accessible to undergraduate audiences.'Anthropological Forum'As Marx might say: this book should change the field.'Mark P. Leone, University of Maryland'This is a wonderfully important work. Patterson's idea of wrapping the history of archaeological theory in the skeins of Marx's ideas can be seen at work in their trenches.'Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina'Patterson resurrects the lingering presence or 'ghost' of Karl Marx in archaeological discussions over the last 50 years or so Patterson's sensible overview can be profitably read by advanced undergraduates, graduate students and professional archaeologists alike.'Philip L. Kohl, Wellesley College'An important book on the many ways that archaeologists have been affected by the writings of Marx. Archaeologists are charged with developinTable of ContentsMarx's Ghost' should be read by archaeology students as part of a general training in archaeological theory. . . as a solid and honest exposition by an archaeologist who is a committed Marxist.'
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Chester Academic Press Figuring Modern Sport: Autobiographical and Historical Reflections on Sport, Violence and Civilisation
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University of Exeter Press Identity Politics Past and Present: Political
Book SynopsisThis book traces the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in Austria between 1995 and 2015, within the framework of Critical Discourse Studies. In doing so, it brings together a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to identity politics, contemporary popular culture, far-right populism and commemoration. While contradictory yet intertwined tendencies towards renationalization and transnationalization have often framed debates about European identities, the so-called refugee crisis of 2015 intensified and polarized these debates. The COVID-19 pandemic, as another major crisis, saw nation-states react by closing borders, while symbols of banal nationalism proliferated. The data under discussion here, drawn from a variety of empirical studies, suggest that changes in memory politics—the way past events are collectively remembered and tied into current political discourses—are also linked to the dynamics of migration; the influence of financial and climate crises; changing gender politics; and a new transnational European politics of the past. Accordingly, the authors assess current challenges to liberal democracies, as well as fundamental human and constitutional rights, in relation to new trends of renationalization across Europe and beyond.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Nationalisms old and new Ruth Wodak and Markus Rheindorf 1. Discourses about Nationalism Ruth Wodak 2. The Discourse-Historical Approach: Methodological innovation and Triangulation Markus Rheindorf 3. Negotiations of a Shared Past and National Identity 1995-2015 Markus Rheindorf and Ruth Wodak 4. Whose story? – Narratives of persecution, flight and survival told by the children of Austrian Holocaust survivors Ruth Wodak and Markus Rheindorf 5. Disciplining the Unwilling: Normalization of (Demands for) Punitive Measures against Immigrants in Austrian Populist Discourse Markus Rheindorf 6. Nativist gender and body politics Ruth Wodak and Markus Rheindorf 7. Entering the Post-Shame Era. The Rise of Illiberal Democracy, Populism and Neo-Authoritarianism in Europe. The case of the turquoise-blue government in Austria 2017/2018 Ruth Wodak 8. Borders, Fences and Limits: Protecting Austria from Refugees. Metadiscursive negotiation of meaning in the current refugee crisis Markus Rheindorf and Ruth Wodak 9. Re/inventing nationalism: Crisis Communication and Crisis Management during COVID-19 in Austria Ruth Wodak
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Daraja Press Insurgent Feminism: Writing War
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Westland Publications Limited Indira
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Central European University Press Czech Silesia
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Academic Studies Press Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917
Book SynopsisDefining the Others, “them”, in relation to one’s own reference group, “us”, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities in any given country or region. In the case of Russia, the formulation of these binary definitions – sometimes taking a form of enemy images – can be traced all the way to medieval texts, in which religion represented the dividing line. Further, the ongoing expansion of the empire transferred numerous “external others” into internal minorities. The chapters of this edited volume examine the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the Others in Russia from the 16th century Muscovy to the collapse of the Russian empire.Trade Review“This timely volume brings together exciting new research on the perception of ‘others’ during four centuries of Russia’s imperial history. While older research often highlighted adherence to Orthodoxy as the main marker of Russianness, this volume’s case studies provide a far more nuanced picture. They demonstrate that different—and often contradicting—markers of identity existed side by side and that perceptions of internal and external ‘others’ were inextricably interwoven. Processes of incorporation and differentiation took place simultaneously and led to a constant shifting of borders between those perceived as ‘Russians’ and the ‘others.’ Ultimately, this book indicates that these contradictions resulted from the ambiguities of Russia’s own identity as a multiethnic state oscillating between empire and nation, with consequences to the Soviet era and beyond.”— Ulrich Hofmeister, University of Munich“From pre-Petrine depictions of steppe dwellers to eighteenth-century categorizations of foreigners and non-Orthodox people, from Pushkin’s encounters with Circassians to imagined Crimean Tatars, from early photographs of the multi-ethnic Caucasus to zoomorphic depictions of the enemy around 1900—this book has it all. Starting in the sixteenth century, it provides a rich tableau of images and imaginations that populate the extensive canon of Russian perceptions of otherness, exoticism, xenophobia, and plain national stereotypes before 1917. At a time when Russian concepts of ‘us’ versus ‘them’ loom large again and dehumanization of the ethnic or religious other has become daily currency, this collection of articles provides historical depth to how Russianness was construed through the ages.”— Hubertus F. Jahn, Professor of the History of Russia and the Caucasus, University of Cambridge“Hegel wrote that subjective Spirit comes to recognize its existence outside itself by meeting itself in the minds of others. More recently, Axel Honneth has examined the construction of our social world as a sequence of recognition relations, often protracted and contentious, some achieving mutual recognition through the acceptance of difference and the according of respect, some refusing such recognition. This is one of the most important subjects for the writing of cultural history, and Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917 engages it directly. The book is impressive in its breadth: it deals with a half-millenium of the successive image construction of a wide range of peoples encountered in the course of expansion of the Russian Empire—Crimean Tatars, indigenous Siberians, Central Asian Turkic peoples, Caucasus mountaineers, the Jews, the political and racial ‘enemies’ of the late Empire (such as the Germans and the ‘Yellow Peril’). It is also attentive to the successive cultural and legal categories used to classify these Others (inozemtsy, inorodtsy, inovertsy), the interests such classification served, and how it shaped Imperial policy.”— Brian Davies, University of Texas at San AntonioTable of ContentsPrefaceKati Parppei and Bulat RakhimzianovIntroduction: Images, Otherness, and Images of the OthersKati Parppei and Bulat RakhimzianovPart One: Creating PrototypesSection SummaryDavid M. GoldfrankVarieties of Otherness in Ivan IV’s Muscovy: Relativity, Multiplicity, and AmbiguityCharles J. HalperinThe Depiction of “Us” and “Them” in the Illuminated Codex of the 1560s–1570s Jaakko LehtovirtaThe Image of the Other: The Perception of Tatars by Russian Intellectuals and Officials in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (Chroniclers, Diplomats, Voivodes, and Writers)Maksim MoiseevFrom Inozemtsy to Inovertsy and Novokreshchenye: Images of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Russia Ricarda VulpiusPart Two: Categorizing the “Internal Others”Section SummaryMichael KhodarkovskyFrom “Sovereign’s Strangers” to “Our Savages”: Otherness of Siberian Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia Yuri Akimov The Russians and the Oirats (Dzungars) in Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Contacts and Images of the “Other” in the Era of Empire BuildingVladimir Puzanov “In a Menagerie of Nations”: Crimean Others in Travelogues, c. 1800Nikita KhrapunovVisually Integrating the Other Within: Imperial Photography and the Image of the Caucasus (1864–1915)Dominik Gutmeyr-SchnurPerception of Others within One Ethnic Minority: Jewish Ethnographic Studies in the Late Russian EmpireMarina ShcherbakovaPart Three: The Other in Times of Conflict and CrisisSection SummaryStephen M. Norris The Russian Imagological Bestiary: The Zoomorphic Image of the Enemy (“Other”) at the Turn of the Century, 1890–1905Anna Rezvukhina, Alena Rezvukhina, and Sergey Troitskiy Hungry and Different—“Otherness” in Imperial Famine Relief: 1891–1892Immo Rebitschek “Agitators and Spies”: The Enemy Image of Itinerant Russians in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1899–1900 Johanna Wassholm The Self and the Other: Representations of the Monarchist Foe and Ally in the Satirical Press of the Russian Right (1906–1908) Oleg Minin The Construction of the Image of the “Other” in the Discussion of the “Yellow Peril”: Chinese People in Late Imperial RussiaAndrey Avdashkin “Own” and “Other”: Soldiers, Officers, and the Fatal Zigzags of the Russian Revolution in the Last Year of the Life of General L. G. Kornilov (1870–1918)Il'ia Rat'kovskiiContributors
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Columbia University Press Preserving Neighborhoods
Book SynopsisHistoric preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. Through rich case studies of Baltimore and Brooklyn, Aaron Passell complicates this story, exploring how community activists and local governments use historic preservation to accelerate or slow down neighborhood change.Trade ReviewHistoric preservation is a movement focused on preserving the physical past. In Preserving Neighborhoods, Aaron Passell deftly illustrates the ways preservation is actually used as a catalyst for changing a neighborhood’s physical and social dimensions. Preserving Neighborhoods is a nuanced and detailed look at historic preservation as a force for neighborhood change and should be in the library of anyone with an interest in the physical and social fabric of urban communities. -- Lance Freeman, author of A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black AmericaPreserving Neighborhoods is a powerful book about how people and organizations work the system to advance parochial projects, a vivid demonstration of how the "social" shapes "social policy" and, with it, urban form. There are far too few comparative ethnographies in urban studies, and Passell has produced an exemplary work. -- Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic LifeSo-called neighborhood preservation lands very differently from one place to another; here we learn just why. There is a radical specificity that determines why the effect in Brooklyn is so different than in Baltimore. Replete with insight and irony, Passell’s book makes a genuine contribution to urban analysis more generally. -- Harvey Molotch, New York UniversityAaron Passell’s Preserving Neighborhoods is a must-read for anyone interested in urban preservation. With case studies from Baltimore and Brooklyn, Passell reveals preservation as a malleable strategy that facilitates different ends across varied contexts, from neighborhoods facing gentrification and development pressure to those crumbling under the weight of entrenched vacancy and abandonment. -- Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, Cleveland State UniversityPreserving Neighborhoods draws on a comparison between two distinct contexts to show how historic designation unfolds differently across different places. In doing so, Aaron Passell engages with a critical urban policy area of vital public importance that has received insufficient scholarly attention. -- Jeremy Levine, University of MichiganIt offers many new insights, as well as challenges to conventional wisdom about neighborhood preservation andgentrification. The book is a good candidate to assign in urban sociology or urban studies undergraduate or graduate courses, particularly on research methods. * Social Forces *Passell’s contribution to urban studies and mixed methodology is loud and clear, and the book does the work of a great sociological account by dispelling—or at least complicating—conventional wisdom about an issue in a way that moves us forward and affords us better comprehension of the world around us. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Explaining Change in Baltimore’s Historic Neighborhoods3. Mitigating Gentrification Through Preservation in Central Brooklyn4. Vacancy, Abandonment, Demolition by Neglect, and Project CORE in Baltimore5. Struggling to Preserve in the Context of Aggressive Development Pressure6. ConclusionAppendix: Data, Methods, and MeasuresNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of California Press Soul Hunters
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. This book focuses on the practical implications of living in a "hall-of-mirrors" world - one inhabited by humans, animals, and spirits.Trade Review"Willerslev's engagements with phenomenology, perspectivism, and mimesis makes a valuable and timely contribution to contemporary debates on knowledge diversity." -- Lesley Green Social AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Animism as Mimesis 2. To Kill or Not to Kill: Rebirth, Sharing, and Risk 3. Body-Soul Dialectics: Human Rebirth Beliefs 4. Ideas of Species and Personhood 5. Animals as Persons 6. Shamanism 7. The Spirit World 8. Leaning and Dreaming 9. Taking Animism Seriously Notes References Index
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University of California Press Moral Laboratories
Book SynopsisOffers an ethnography and a foray into the anthropology of morality. This book takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, and it foregrounds the uncertainty that affects their struggles for a good life.Trade Review"Mattingly convincingly bolsters her claims ... an excellent demonstration of ethnographic and theoretical work." -- Ezelle Sanford III Center for Medical HumanitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Part One. First Person Virtue Ethics 1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life 2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality Part Two. Moral Becoming and the Everyday 3. Home Experiments: Scenes from the Moral Ordinary 4. Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self 5. Moral Tragedy: The Perils of a Superstrong Black Mother 6. The Flight of the Blue Balloons: Narrative Suspense and the Play of Possible Selves Part Three. Moral Pluralism as Cultural Possibility 7. Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby 8. Dueling Confessions: Revolution in the First Person 9. Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Social Collateral Women and Microfinance in Paraguays Smuggling Economy
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University of California Press Crossing the Kingdom
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University of California Press Fighting to Breathe
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Eye-opening and inspiring." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Fighting to Breathe [is] an important resource for undergraduate classrooms, particularly in this moment when critical justice approaches to teaching climate change are essential." * New Politics *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Characters Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Failed Development on Baltimore’s Toxic Periphery: A History 2. Free Your Voice: An Origin Story 3. Fighting the Nation’s Largest Trash-to-Energy Incinerator 4. “Whose Land? Our Land!”: Land Trusts as Fair Development 5. Compost! Learn So We Don’t Have to Burn: Zero Waste Is Our Future Conclusion Postscript: A Letter of Confession to the Activist Scholar Notes References Index
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University of California Press Big Brands Are Watching You
Book SynopsisHow is morality understood in the marketplace? Why do brands speak out about certain issues of injustice and not others? And what is influencer culture's role in social and political activism? Big Brands Are Watching You? investigates corporate culture, from the branding of companies and nations to television portrayals of big business and the workplace. Francesca Sobande analyzes media, interviews, survey responses, and ephemera from the history of advertising as well as exhibitions in London, brand stores in Amsterdam, a music festival in Las Vegas, and archives in Washington, DC, to illuminate the world of branding.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface: The Temperature of These Times Acknowledgments 1. Setting the Scene: Social Justice for Sale 2. The Politics of Morality and the Marketplace 3. The Business of Activism, Antagonism, and Aging 4. Forecasting the Future of Morality in the Marketplace References Index
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University of California Press Side Hustle Safety Net
Book SynopsisThe first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workersa sociological exploration that reads like a novel. This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earnersgig workers, restaurant staff, early-career creatives, and minimum-wage laborersdo when the economy suddenly collapses. In Side Hustle Safety Net, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle builds on interviews with nearly two hundred gig-based and precarious workers, conducted during the height of the pandemic, to uncover the unique challenges they faced in unprecedented times. This book looks at both the officially unemployed and the forgotten joblessa digital-era demographic that turned to side hustlesand reveals how they fared. CARES Act assistance allowed some to change careers, start businesses, perhaps transform their lives. However, gig workers and those involved in polyemployment found themselves at the mercy of outdated unemployment systems, vulnerable to scams, and attempting dubious survival strategies. Ultimately, Trade Review"A lively, fascinating panorama of the neo-Dickensian labor regime so many workers endure." * Publishers Weekly *"Eye-opening. . . . A startling examination of the patchy response to pandemic-era unemployment." * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 “Officially Unemployed” or “Forgotten Jobless”? 2 The Side Hustle Safety Net 3 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, Scam Jobs 4 Making More and Moving On Up 5 Strategies of Survival 6 Stuck in Place 7 It’s a Beautiful Life 8 Learning from Covid Appendix: Research Methodology Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Corporate Alibi Capitalism and the Cultural
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Harvard University Press The Moscow Factor U.S. Policy toward Sovereign
Book SynopsisEugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine's sovereignty in its relations with Moscow. The Moscow Factor brings together for the first time documentary evidence and declassified materials, retrospective articles by former policymakers, and memoirs by erstwhile senior officials.Trade ReviewOutstanding…An important corrective to those works that emphasize U.S.-Russia relations above other relationships in the region. Anyone who has ever used ‘Russia’ and the ‘Soviet Union’ as interchangeable terms will check themselves before doing so again…The Russia focus has led us to shortchange others, and Fishel has highlighted well the great costs of doing so. -- James Goldgeier * Russian Review *
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Harvard University Press The State of Housing Design 2023
Book SynopsisThe State of Housing Design 2023 is the first report in a new series that reviews national trends, ideas, and critical issues related to residential design. This volume addresses issues of affordability, social cohesion, sustainability, aesthetics, density, and urbanism through critical essays, visual content, and a crowdsourced survey.
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Harvard University Press Echoes from the SinoBurmese Borderlands Untold Stories of Overland Chinese Migrants During the Cold War
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Princeton University Press Schools of Thought
Book SynopsisAssesses the intellectual revolution in the social sciences. This collection of 20 essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. It is suitable for those interested in how changing trends in scholarship shape the understanding of our social worlds.Trade Review"Schools of Thought is a tremendous contribution to scholarship in the broadest sense, or perhaps one should say, meta-scholarship. It is also loaded with rich, stimulating, and provocative essays by a roster of brilliant scholars. I can't think of anything quite like this book. It captures, in a many-faceted way, what has truly been a revolution in the social sciences in the past twenty-five years. It will be extremely widely read across the social sciences, and across many of the humanities as well."—Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii INTRODUCTION: Clifford Geertz School Building: A Retrospective Preface PART ONE: Blurred Genres: Reflections on Disciplinary Practices 13 CHAPTER 1: Quentin Skinner Political Theory after the Enlightenment Project 15 CHAPTER 2: Wolf Lepenies Twenty-five Years of Social Science and Social Change: A Personal Memoir 25 CHAPTER 3: Gavin Wright Economic History as a Cure for Economics 41 CHAPTER 4: Judith Butler Can the "Other" of Philosophy Speak? 52 CHAPTER 5: Renato Rosaldo Reflections on Interdisciplinarity 67 PART TWO: The State of the Art: New Methods and New Questions 83 CHAPTER 6: Joan W. Scott After History? 85 CHAPTER 7: Anna Tsing The Global Situation 104 CHAPTER 8: Charles Taylor Modernity and Identity 139 CHAPTER 9: Kaushik Basu The Role of Norms and Law in Economics: An Essay on Political Economy 154 CHAPTER 10: Peter Galison Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization 179 CHAPTER 11: Andrew Pickering Science as Alchemy 194 PART THREE: Thick Description: Field Overviews and Institutional History 207 CHAPTER 12: William H. Sewell, Jr. Whatever Happened to the "Social" in Social History? 209 CHAPTER 13: Nicholas B. Dirks Postcolonialism and Its Discontents: History, Anthropology, and Postcolonial Critique 227 CHAPTER 14: David E. Apter Structure, Contingency, and Choice: A Comparison of Trends and Tendencies in Political Science 252 CHAPTER 15: Mary Poovey Interdisciplinarity at New York University 288 PART FOUR: The World in Pieces: Political Philosophy and World Governance 313 CHAPTER 16: Jean Bethke Elshtain Political Theory and Moral Responsibility 315 CHAPTER 17: Jane Mansbridge A "Moral Core" Solution to the Prisoners' Dilemma 330 CHAPTER 18: Michael Rustin Reinterpreting Risk 348 CHAPTER 19: Istvan Rev Retrotopia: Critical Reason Turns Primitive 364 CHAPTER 20: Michael Walzer International Society: What Is the Best that We Can Do? 388 AUTHOR NOTES 403
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Princeton University Press American Classicist The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Maya History and Religion
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Cambridge University Press languagepolicy
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Etruscans
Book Synopsis* The first, full account of Etruscan politics, culture and society, placing Etruscans in their Mediterranean context. * Incorporate up--to--date finding from landscape archaeology. * Includes unique practical guide to more than 60 Etruscan sites.Trade Review"Written with scholarly precision but without condescension The Etruscans deserves to be on the shelves of all those who want an up-to-date overview of the subject." History Today, Volume 48, Sept 98. "As well as offering new approaches and interpretations the book presents the reader with concise summaries of, often highly contentious, recent debates." Vedia Izzet, Christ's College, Cambridge. "In an impressively comprehensive book, they weave together material from a wealth of sources, classical literature, land surveys and excavation - their text providing a lesson in itself in how to recreate ancient history." History Today.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Landscape. 2. Origins. 3. Sources and Society. 4. Cultural Transformations. 5. Settlement and Territory. 6. Subsistence and Economy. 7. Life, Cult, and Afterlife. 8. Romanization. Appendix: Etruscan Places - A Rough Guide. Bibliography. Index.
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Elliott & Thompson Limited Three Rivers
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Penguin Random House Group The Singularity Is Nearer
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Penguin Random House Group The Singularity Is Nearer
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University of California Press Paradoxes of Green
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary study of green and its significance from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social. It is centered on the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous-a radical contrast to the hot and hostile desert.Trade Review"Doherty is as comfortable reflecting on the aesthetic aspects of colour as he is describing the ecological implications of property development... the portrait Doherty paints is of a fascinating, quickly changing, and - yes - paradoxical place." Environment and Urbanization "Beautifully written." Landscape Architecture MagazineTable of ContentsNotes on Transliteration and Translation Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Two Seas, Many Greens 1. Green Scenery 2. The Blueness of Green 3. How Green Can Become Red 4. The Memory of Date Palm Green 5. The Struggle for the Manama Greenbelt 6. The Promise of Beige 7. Brightening Green 8. The Whiteness of Green Notes Glossary List of Named Participants Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press Commentaries on Plato
Book SynopsisMarsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His commentaries remained the standard guide to the philosopher's works for centuries. Vanhaelen's new translation of Parmenides makes this monument of metaphysics accessible to the modern student.Trade ReviewFicino’s focus was on the writings of Plato, which were the subject of his study, his translation, and his extensive commentary. One of the most extensive of those commentaries—on Plato’s Parmenides—is now one of the most recent additions to Harvard’s superb ongoing I Tatti Renaissance Library. In a two-volume accomplishment all the more astounding for being conducted so unassumingly, Maude Vanhaelen has taken Ficino’s 1496 edition of the commentary on Parmenides, regularized its usages, combed out its typos, modernized its spellings, and thereby produced the single finest scholarly version of this long and problematic work yet made… Thanks to Maude Vanhaelen and the I Tatti Library, we can now study Ficino’s epic Parmenides commentary as it should be studied: with a clear, nailed-down text, a fine English translation, and some wide-ranging, hard-working notes. Renaissance scholars—that tiny, hard-drinking enclave—will rightly rejoice. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Stranger as My Guest: A Critical Anthropology
Book SynopsisThe migration crisis of recent years has elicited a double response: on the one hand, many states have responded by tightening border controls, in an attempt to restrict population movements, while on the other hand many citizens have responded by welcoming new arrivals, offering them shelter, food and whatever help they could provide. By so doing, they have re-awakened an old form of anthropology that was long-considered to be dead – that of hospitality. In this book, Agier develops an original anthropology of hospitality that starts from the reality of hospitality as a social relationship, albeit an asymmetrical one, in which each party has rights and duties. He argues that, with the decline of state and religious support, hospitality is now making a comeback at individual and municipal levels but these local initiatives, while important, are insufficient to respond to the scale of migration in the world today. We need a new hospitality policy for the modern era, one that will regard hospitality as a right rather than a favour and will treat the stranger as a guest rather than as an alien or an enemy. This timely and original book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with migration and refugees in the world today.Trade Review“Michel Agier has created a sensitive and innovative anthropology which does not describe social types: rather, it analyses relations, through participation in the migrant’s trials and solidarity with their efforts to overcome a condition of fear and hostility, often death. Delineating the multiple figures of the stranger that we are all, he paves the way for a cosmopolitanism of the wandering humanity, our coming humanity.”Etienne Balibar, author of Secularism and CosmopolitanismTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction. Hospitality when least expected Chapter 1. Making the stranger my guest The conditions of unconditionality The elementary forms of hospitality From domestic hospitality to public hospitality Chapter 2. Hospitality – the challenge of the present Encounters of a new type Hospitality – causes and effects The emergence of municipal hospitality From ghetto to migrant houses Hospitable municipality versus hostile state Chapter 3. The need for cosmopolitics Cosmopolitanism today The principle of hospitality and cosmopolitics from a philosophical perspective Banal cosmopolitanism: an anthropological point of view Chapter 4. Becoming a stranger The death of Stavros or the birth of Joe Arness Three times a stranger The migrant poet and the spectre of the alien Conclusion Postscript. The stranger post Covid-19 Notes Index
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University of California Press Our Most Troubling Madness
Book SynopsisSchizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia are low in some countries and higher in others? The authors argue that the root causes of schizophrenia are not only biological, but also sociocultural.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword - Kim Hopper Acknowledgments Introduction - T. M. Luhrmann 1. "I'm Schizophrenic!": How Diagnosis Can Change Identity in the United States - T. M. Luhrmann 2. Diagnostic Neutrality in Psychiatric Treatment in North India - Amy June Sousa 3. Vulnerable Transitions in a World of Kin: In the Shadow of Good Wifeliness in North India - Jocelyn Marrow 4. Work and Respect in Chennai - Giulia Mazza 5. Racism and Immigration: An African-Caribbean Woman in London - Johanne Eliacin 6. Voices That Are More Benign: The Experience of Auditory Hallucinations in Chennai - T. M. Luhrmann and R. Padmavati 7. Demonic Voices: One Man's Experience of God, Witches, and Psychosis in Accra, Ghana - Damien Droney 8. Madness Experienced as Faith: Temple Healing in North India - Anubha Sood 9. Faith Interpreted as Madness: Religion, Poverty, and Psychiatry in the Life of a Romanian Woman - Jack R. Friedman 10. The Culture of the Institutional Circuit in the United States - T. M. Luhrmann 11. Return to Baseline: A Woman with Acute-Onset, Non-affective Remitting Psychosis in Thailand - Julia Cassaniti 12. A Fragile Recovery in the United States - Neely A. L. Myers Conclusion - Jocelyn Marrow and T. M. Luhrmann Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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Harvard University Press Essays on Anscombes Intention
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Beacon Press Nice Racism How Progressive White People
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBuilding on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of color. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an anti-racist educator, she picks up where White Fragility left off and moves the conversation forward.Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perp
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Critical Humanism: A Manifesto for the 21st
Book SynopsisWe live in a mutilated world and our humanity seems irrevocably damaged. Many critics suggest we have reached the end of humanity. In this challenging book, Ken Plummer suggests that such claims may be premature; instead, what we need is a new transformative understanding of humanity. Critical Humanism critically reflects upon and reimagines humanism for the twenty-first century. What is now required is a fresh, wide-ranging imaginary of an open, worldly, plural and caring humanity. It needs to take a critical stance towards older, often divisive ideas of what it means to be human, while reconnecting to a wider understanding of the rich diversity of life in the pluriverse. In an age of post- and transhumanist turns, Plummer provides a personal, political and passionate call for thinkers, researchers and activists to not turn their backs on humanism. We need instead to create a vital new political imaginary of being human in a connected planet. We simply cannot afford to be anti-human or posthuman. Restoring our belief in humanity has never been more important for edging towards a better world for all.Trade Review‘[R]efreshing: [Plummer’s] vision of critical humanism is aspirational and ambitious, yet it strives to sustain humility based on historical experiences.’Social Forces ‘This book is an extraordinarily brave and enormously comprehensive attempt to re-energize an interest in the battered concept of humanism, fully realizing its author’s intention to provide “a vision of something better”.’Laurie Taylor, University of York, and presenter of Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio Four ‘Plummer engages with an extraordinary range of different literatures and a lifetime of reflection to consider what it will take to be truly human in the twenty-first century. We should grapple seriously with his impassioned and challenging arguments.’Rob Stones, Western Sydney University ‘Ken Plummer’s mission has been to expand the range and depth of decencies; here he seeks larger principles on which to ground mutual regard. This is a fundamental study – rooted in conscience, sociological learning and intimate generosity. Critical Humanism stirs the mind.’Harvey Molotch, New York University, and University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsList of tables and figures Acknowledgements IntroductionI Re-thinking the World: Connected Humanity 1 Critical HumanismII Dehumanizing the World: Disconnected Humanity2 Damaging Humanity3 Dividing Humanity4 Traumatizing HumanityIII Humanizing the World: Flourishing Humanity5 Narrating Humanity6 Valuing Humanity7 Transforming HumanityIVTransforming the World: A Politics of Humanity 8 A Manifesto for the 21st Century Short Guide to Further RedingNotes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Spaces of Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume to analyse systematically the role of neoliberalism in contemporary processes of urban restructuring. Includes contributions from leading scholars in the fields of critical urban studies, radical geography and state theory. Analyses the role of neoliberalism in contemporary processes of urban restructuring. Synthesises a variety of new theoretical approaches to key issues in contemporary urban studies. Incorporates new case study material of ongoing urban transformations in the USA, Canada, the UK and other Western European countries. Trade Review"...a fantastic, empirically rich and theoretically innovative, exploration of the macropolitical realignment and ongoing spatial restructuring that have taken place since the 1970s. This is cutting-edge urban research: not only students of contemporary cities and their institutional geographies, but municipal policy makers as well as activists concerned with reshaping cities towards more democratic and socially just ends will find this collection indispensable." Margit Mayer, Freie Universität, Berlin "This thoughtful and thought-provoking book examines the dynamics and consequences of neoliberal policies in the unstable geography of contemporary cities. The book synthesizes a range of current explorations of urban space and neoliberal ideology, and ends with a new and coherent conceptualization of what is happening on the ground around us." Peter Marcuse, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University "Brenner and Theodore have done an excellent job in bringing together an innovative collection of work on urban restructuring - a collection that combines some of the most interesting insights from critical political economy and radical geography to explain important aspects of the spatial reconfiguration of capitalism since the 1970s." Stephen Gill, Professor of Political Science, University of York, Toronto "Brenner and Theodore have put together a stimulating series of investigations that explore how recent economic strategies, state agendas and spatial logics produce urban landscapes marked by striking levels of inequality and social exclusion. This collection provides a theoretically sophisticated and politically incisive examination of the ways in which restructuring cities have become central to the new geographies of power." William Sites, University of Chicago, author of Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community "This is a stimulatimg text, the ambitious designs of which provide a rich theoretical resource" Peter Sunley, University of Edinburgh for Progress in Human Geography “Exploring ‘the spaces of neoliberalism’ is clearly a project whose time has come. The current collection of papers does an excellent job in laying out some of the substantive issues involved, the nature of the changes that the neoliberal agenda has conditioned, and the conflicts that its imposition has generated.” Environment and Planning D: Society and SpaceTable of ContentsPreface:. From the ‘New Localism' to the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Neil Brenner (New York University) & Nik Theodore (University of Illinois at Chicago). Part I: The Urbanization of Neoliberalism: Theoretical Foundations:. 1. Cities and the geographies of ‘actually existing neoliberalism': Neil Brenner (New York University) & Nik Theodore (University of Illinois at Chicago). 2. Neoliberalizing space: the free economy and the penal state: Jamie Peck (University of Wisconsin-Madison) & Adam Tickell (University of Bristol). 3. Neoliberalism and socialisation in the contemporary city: opposites, complements and instabilities: Jamie Gough (University of Northumbria). 4. New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy: Neil Smith (CUNY Graduate Center). Part II: Cities and State Restructuring: Pathways and Contradictions:. 5. Liberalism, Neoliberalism and Urban Governance: A State-Theoretical Pespective: Bob Jessop (Lancaster University). 6. Interpreting Neoliberal Urban Policy: The State, Crisis Management, and the Politics of Scale: Martin Jones (University of Wales) & Kevin Ward (University of Manchester). 7. ‘The city is dead, long live the network': Harnessing networks for the neoliberal urban agenda: Helga Leitner (University of Minnesota) & Eric Sheppard (University of Minnestota). 8. Extracting Value from the City: Neoliberalism and Urban Redevelopment: Rachel Weber (University of Illinois at Chicago). Part III: New Geographies of Power: Exclusion and Injustice:. 9. Neoliberal urbanization in Europe: large scale urban development projects and the new urban policy: Erik Swyngedouw (Oxford University), Frank Moulaert (University of Lille) & Arantxa Rodriguez (University of the Basque Country). 10. Retro-Urbanism: Reliving the Dreams of 1980s Neoliberalism in Toronto, Canada: Roger Keil (York University, Toronto). 11. Spatializing injustice in the late entrepreneurial city: Unraveling the contours of Britain's revanchist urbanism: Gordon MacLeod (University of Durham).
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Columbia University Press The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad
Book SynopsisActivist, journalist, and theorist, Eqbal Ahmad (1934-1999) was admired and consulted by revolutionaries and activists as well as policymakers and academics. This work collects his writings. It reflects his distinct understanding of world politics, as well as his profound sense of empathy for those living in poverty and oppression.Trade ReviewPeople like Ahmad do not come along often. That is why the publication of his Selected Writings is an occasion for sorrow as well as celebration. -- Amitava Kumar The Nation The editors of this work have rightfully collected the best writings... to demonstrate [Ahmad's] continued relevance in this turbulent world. -- Stuart Schaar Journal of Palestine Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Boudica The British Revolt Against Rome AD 60 Roman Conquest of Britain The Roman Conquest of Britain
Book SynopsisQueen Boudica, leader of the Iceni, revolted against the Romans in AD60 only to have her efforts avenged by a humiliated Roman army. This lively and fascinating book examines in detail the evidence and theories which surround these events.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Sources; Chapter 2 The Opposing Forces and the State of Britain 54 BC; Chapter 3 Britain between the Invasions 54 BC—AD 43; Chapter 4 The Conquest of AD 43; Chapter 5 The Storm Breaks AD 60; Chapter 6 The Evidence from the Ground; Chapter 7 The Trail of Destruction;
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Random House USA Inc The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the
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Hyperion The Center Cannot Hold My Journey Through Madness
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Harvard University Press Grounds for Difference
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Simon & Schuster Suicide
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Even for the psychoanalytically oriented reader this book holds more than merely historical interest. One cannot help being impressed by the wealth of knowledge and the perspicacity revealed in it, and there have certainly been few more compact presentations of socio-psychological problems…Psychoanalysts no less than sociologists will find the study of Durkheim’s book instructive and rewarding. The editor and translators are to be commended for making the work available in an excellent and remarkably lucid translation.” —Psychoanalytic Quarterly"Durkheim's contribution was a very considerable one...No investigation of the subject can disregard his views."—American Journal of Psychiatry
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Harvard University Press The MilitaryEntertainment Complex
Book SynopsisWith the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games has blurred. The Military-Entertainment Complex traces how the realities of war are inflected by their representation in entertainment. War games, in turn, feature an increasing number of weapons, tactics, and scenarios from the War on Terror.Trade ReviewLocked and loaded, this astonishing account of the ‘military-entertainment complex’ exposes the links between military technologies and popular media, the alignments and affinities among defense agencies, video game companies, and Hollywood studios. With tactical precision, Tim Lenoir and Luke Caldwell show how the militarization of contemporary society is driven less by political interests than by economic interests, revealing the ways in which the entertainment industry and its commercial practices shape the imagination of postmodern warfare. This is a provocative, high-octane book about the war games of everyday life and the future of digital culture. Epic pwn. -- Colin Milburn, University of California, DavisWhile the term ‘military-entertainment complex’ conjures images of dystopian collusion, what Lenoir and Caldwell uncover is far more disturbing: collusion is unnecessary. By avoiding authenticity in favor of adrenaline, billion-dollar video game franchises, such as Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, do more to create a cultural acceptance of war than military PR could ever hope to achieve. Games have not been co-opted by the military, but rather the opposite. Civilians have transformed war into a consumer product, reducing its emotional resonance to that of a theme park ride, all in service of reaching a larger audience. -- Walt Williams, Lead Writer, Spec Ops: The Line
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Modernity
Book Synopsis* This is a brief, authoritative and accessible introduction to the idea of modernity, written by a leading social theorist. * Wagner shows that modernity was based on ideas of freedom, reason and progress, but he examines the extent to which these ideas have been, and can be, realized in the modern world.Trade Review‘Modernity as an organizing theoretical-interpretative device has had an untidy and unruly history. No one recognizes this better than Peter Wagner, and no one has done more to unpack, analyse, tame, and repack its meanings and its claims. Modernity extends his previous work significantly, and consolidates his position as simultaneously the most creative and the most sensible of writers of our time on the topic. He is especially to be congratulated for referring to historical and comparative actualities.' Neil Smelser, University of California, Berkeley ‘Peter Wagner's work is simply indispensable to those who wish to conceptualize modernity in a truly global way that challenges the Eurocentrism built into all classical writings on the subject. Wagner is a high theorist but his openness to questions of historical diversity remains exemplary.' Dipesh Chakrabarty, The University of Chicago ‘Peter Wagner's developing "world sociology of modernity", outlined in this splendid book, is a major advance in his and our thinking about modernity around the world. The book is also an excellent and very readable summary of the current state of the field.' William Outhwaite, Newcastle UniversityTable of ContentsPrefacePart IRe-theorizing modernityChapter 1Retrieving modernity's past, understanding modernity's presentChapter 2Changing views of modernity:from convergence and stability to plurality and transformationsChapter 3Successive modernities:crisis, criticism and the idea of progressChapter 4Disentangling the concept of modernity:time, action and problems to be solvedPart IIAnalyzing contemporary modernityChapter 5The link between capitalism and democracy reconsideredChapter 6European and non-European trajectories of modernity comparedChapter 7Violence and justice in global modernity:reflections on South Africa with world-sociological intentChapter 8Towards a world-sociology of modernityReferences
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in
Book SynopsisThe Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek incorporates linguistic insights from both neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions to present a unified semantic description of the perfect and pluperfect in literary Koine Greek.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1.1 Problem of the Greek perfect active 1.2 Existing frameworks for understanding the perfect 1.3 Existing frameworks for understanding the Greek perfect 1.4 Critical assessment of existing studies 1.5 Aims and approach 1.6 Corpus 1.7 Outline 2. The perfect and lexical aspect 2.1 Introduction 2.1.1 Events and the Greek perfect 2.1.2 The true domain of events 2.1.3 Aspect: semantic, pragmatic or morphological? 2.1.4 Viewpoint aspect, situation aspect and telicity 2.1.5 Tense and aspect in terms of Utterance Time and Topic Time 2.1.6 Viewpoint aspect in Greek 2.1.7 Lexical aspectual categories: Aristotle, Kenny and Vendler 2.1.8 The domain of situation aspect: syntax or lexis? 2.1.9 Developing a lexical aspectual framework for Greek 2.2 Perfect of homogeneous verbs 2.2.1 Introduction 2.2.2 Non-durative state verbs 2.2.3 Durative state verbs 2.2.4 Terminative state verbs 2.2.5 Non-state homogeneous verbs 2.2.6 Conclusion 2.3 Non-durative terminative verbs (describing achievements) 2.4 Non-homogeneous durative verbs (describing activities and accomplishments) 2.4.1 Introduction 2.4.2 Non-COS verbs 2.4.3 COS verbs 2.4.4 Verbs with two perfect active stems 2.4.5 Verbs alternating between COS and non-COS readings without specialised stems 2.4.6 Conclusion 2.5 Noise verbs 2.6 Conclusion 3. Syntactic theoretical frameworks 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Neo-Davidsonian tradition 3.2.1 Event semantics in the Davidsonian tradition 3.2.2 Argument projection in a neo-Davidsonian framework 3.2.3 Semantic roles and grammatical relations 3.2.4 Determining the number of arguments 3.2.5 Formally representing semantic roles in a neo-Davidsonian framework 3.2.6 Are states predicates of eventualities? 3.2.7 Theme hierarchies and thematic proto-roles 3.3 Government-Binding (GB) theory 3.3.1 Introduction 3.3.2 Unaccusativity hypothesis and (causative) change of state 3.3.3 X-bar theory 3.3.4 Status of the subject as a verbal argument 3.3.5 Subject of state sentences 3.3.6 Combining Davidsonian semantics with GB theory 3.4 Predicate types 3.4.1 Introduction 3.4.2 State predicates 3.4.3 Change of state and causative change of state 3.4.4 Change of state and change of location 3.4.5 Accomplishment predicates 3.4.6 Activity predicates 3.5 Voice alternations and the resultative 3.5.1 Passive voice 3.5.2 Resultative 3.5.3 The middle 3.6 Conclusion 4. The causative alternation 4.1 Introduction 4.1.1 Transitivity in traditional Greek grammar passive 4.1.2 The function and development of the Greek middle and passive 4.1.3 Voice and argument projection in Greek 4.1.4 Transitivity and the Greek perfect 4.2 Labile transitivity outside of the perfect 4.2.1 Introduction 4.2.2 Verbs fully participating in the causative alternation 4.2.3 Anticausative denoted by infl ection 4.2.4 Anticausative perfective with a root stem 4.2.5 Semantic distinction determining participation in the causative alternation 4.2.6 Conclusion 4.3 Labile transitivity in the perfect 4.3.1 Introduction 4.3.2 Causative/anticausative distinctions in the perfect 4.3.3 Re-expression of external cause argument by means of an adjunct phrase 4.3.4 Productivity of the specialised causative/anticausative perfect stems 4.3.5 Implications for the meaning of the perfect 4.4 Conclusion 5. The interaction of the perfect with different predicate types 5.1 Introduction: tense and aspect in a neo-Davidsonian framework 5.1.1 Approach 5.1.2 Aspectual Interface Hypothesis (AIH) 5.1.3 Situation aspect 5.1.4 Tense and aspect in a Government-Binding (GB) and neo- Davidsonian framework 5.1.5 Constructing the path of an event 5.1.6 Role of VAspP 5.1.7 Resultative and perfect in English 5.1.8 Outline of the present chapter 5.2 Homogeneous eventualities 5.2.1 Non-durative predicates 5.2.2 Durative predicates 5.2.3 Conclusion 5.3 Non-homogeneous non-COS eventualities 5.3.1 Introduction 5.3.2 Activity predicates 5.3.3 Accomplishment predicates 5.3.4 Conclusion 5.4 COS accomplishment predicates 5.4.1 Introduction 5.4.2 Unaccusative and anticausative predicates 5.4.3 Causative COS predicates 5.4.4 Unaccusativised activity predicates 5.4.5 Delimiting the post-state 5.5 COS achievement predicates 5.5.1 COS predicates 5.5.2 Causative COS predicates 5.6 Conclusion 6. The interaction of the perfect with COS predicates 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Extent predicates 6.2.1 COS and extent predicates 6.2.2 Achievements in a difference scale framework 6.2.3 Non-COS extent predicates 6.2.4 Disambiguation of extent and temporal readings 6.2.5 Viewpoint aspect and difference scales 6.2.6 Tense and extent predicates 6.2.7 The resultative construction 6.2.8 Extent predicates in Greek 6.2.9 Implications for the semantics of the perfect 6.3 Temporal versus extent readings of perfect predicates 6.3.1 Introduction 6.3.2 Prestate not logically present in time 6.3.3 Prestate logically present in time 6.3.4 Metaphorical extension of extent predicates to non-distance scales 6.4 Suppression of the internal argument in non-causative COS predicates 6.5 Suppression of the external argument 6.6 A special case 6.7 Conclusion 7. Deriving homogeneous atelic eventualities from states and non-states 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Deriving a homogeneous atelic eventuality by negation 7.3 Telic state predicates 7.4 Activity predicates 7.5 Non-COS accomplishment predicates 7.6 Causative COS predicates 7.7 Deriving states from states: the perfect of atelic state predicates 7.7.1 Introduction 7.7.2 Pure state predicates 7.7.3 Continued state predicates 7.7.4 COS predicates 7.8 Obligatory anteriority in derived states 7.9 Semantic contribution of the Greek perfect 7.10 Tense and the time adverbial problem 7.11 Noise predicates 7.12 Conclusion 8. Conclusion: the semantics of the Greek perfect
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Open University Press Young People and Social Change
Book SynopsisReviews of the first editionâœNot only does the clarity of the authorsâ writing make the book very accessible, but their argument is also illustrated throughout with a broad range of empirical material â undoubtedly a strong contribution to the study of both contemporary youth and âlate-modernâ society.âYouth JusticeâœA very accessible, well-evidenced and important book â It succeeds in raising important questions in a new and powerful way.âJournal of Education and Workâœthe book will be very popular with students and with academicsâ..The clarity of the organization, expression and argument is particularly commendable. I have no doubt that Young People and Social Change will rightly find its way onto the recommended reading lists of many in the field.â Professor Robert MacDonald, University of Teesside A welcome update to one of the most influential and authoritative books on young people in modern societies. With a fuller theoreticalTable of ContentsIntroduction The risk society Change and continuity in education Social change and labour market transitions Changing patterns of dependency Leisure and lifestyles Health risks in late modernity Crime and insecurity Politics and participation The epistemological fallacy of late modernity Bibliography Index.
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Random House USA Inc My Own Country A Doctors Story
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