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Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. Unleash the Sociological Imagination -
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Verso Books A World Without Police: How Strong Communities
Book SynopsisTens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and protest. A World without Police transcribes these new ideas-written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades-into a compelling, must-read manifesto for police abolition.Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, A World without Police offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with policing alternatives at a mass scale in Latin America, Maher details the institutions we can count on to deliver security without the disorganizing interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects, and well-resourced social services.A World without Police argues that abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon but an attainable reality. In communities around the world, we are beginning to glimpse a real, lasting justice in which we keep us safe.Trade ReviewCiccariello-Maher's book is a triumph of reporting, narrative, and theoretical analysis. It's a testament to what happens when you keep your eyes open, your ear to the ground, and your head on straight." -- Corey Robin, author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, in praise of Building the CommuneFrom the ashes of the Third Precinct, Geo Maher looks for what grows when the deadly shadow of the police is removed. He writes an urgent history of the present. The ingredients of white supremacy, colonialism, and capitalism are baked into the cake called America, especially the institution of the police. You can't unbake that cake. Maher contends creating a world without police is not only possible, but necessary. -- Nick Estes, author of Our History Is the FutureA World Without Police is provocative in the best possible ways: It dares the reader to imagine a future only without policing, but shorn of the capitalism and white supremacy that refashions a public in the image of the police. It situates the carceral and coercive institutions in the US within broader global currents of imperial violence. And it demands that we together build strong, antiracist, and egalitarian communities that can defend themselves here and across national boundaries. -- Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and TradeGeo rips away the band-aid of liberal police reform to expose the open wound of racism, colonialism, and economic exploitation at the heart of capitalism and its police and shows us that healing that wound will require deep global transformations rooted in community empowerment. -- Alex Vitale, author of End of PolicingStunning in conception. Forceful in Argument. Expert in proposing remedies. In sum, this is a book that must not only be read--but studied. -- Gerald Horne, author of Fire This TimeNo reasonable person can read this book and still believe police are good for us. Geo Maher proves on every single page that "A World Without Police" is no utopia but a concrete necessity if we want to preserve life and make our communities safer. And he shows us precisely how it could be done. Take this book everywhere. Read, share, act; defund, disarm, abolish. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom DreamsMaher's prose, trenchant and unapologetic, helps us write a poetry of abolition. -- Tyler Wall, author of Police: A Field GuideA thesis sure to stir plenty of controversy but worthy of discussion. * Kirkus Reviews *A clear-sighted and passionate case for abolition that is ultimately an argument for changing the world as we know it. Maher's work is steeped in historical understanding and revolutionary insight, but it is, above all, determinedly hopeful and humane in its vision of another way of living together that is absolutely possible. -- Priyamvada Gopal, author of Insurgent EmpireThanks to the tireless organizing work of the "stubborn agitators, zealots, and fanatics of the best sort" who inspire Geo Maher, police abolition is an increasingly widespread political demand. A World Without Police dismantles every argument cops and their supporters offer to defend our present world with police, incisively detailing their flaws and falsehoods. In our future world without police, Maher's persuasive book will serve as the institution's autopsy report. -- Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without BordersGeo Maher not only demonstrates definitively that police serve a wealthy white elite and don't protect us, but also illuminates the path toward abolishing policing. By describing concrete local and global experiments in grassroots resistance, he brings clarity to how community organizing works tactically and politically to make policing obsolete. A World without Police offers inspiring assurance that we can achieve the vision embodied in its title. -- Dorothy Roberts, author, Killing the Black Body and Shattered BondsIn A World Without Police, Geo Maher considers modern day abolitionist movements against policing. Through the flames of the 2020 uprisings, he illuminates a long history of abolitionist struggles for freedom, for democracy, and for the radical transformation of the world. An urgent text for our times. -- Christina Heatherton, editor of Policing the PlanetA World without Police analyzes the unfinished business of 'abolition democracy' in the twenty-first century. Amidst a cycle of rebellion, Geo Maher deftly illuminates how policing is a 'racket'. The power to transform society, he argues, lies in the visions of radical democratic movements to abolish the police. -- Jordan Camp, author of Incarcerating the CrisisWhat is the 'thin blue line' if not a border, writes Geo Maher in his terrific new book A World Without Police. In nine beautifully written chapters, he takes us on a terrifying tour of that border, reminding us that cops have never engaged in law enforcement, crime fighting, or public safety. The claim by cops and police reformists that policing secures democracy and civilization against savagery and barbarism is a cruel lie that hides a sadistic police history of white supremacist violence against the poor. We'll never be free as long as cops patrol our streets, and Geo Maher's book helps light our way in our struggle to build a world free from the plague of police.\n"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":12993,"3":{"1":0},"9":0,"10":0,"12":0,"15":"Verdana","16":9}" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;">What is the 'thin blue line' if not a border, writes Geo Maher in his terrific new book A World Without Police. In nine beautifully written chapters, he takes us on a terrifying tour of that border, reminding us that cops have never engaged in law enforcement, crime fighting, or public safety. The claim by cops and police reformists that policing secures democracy and civilization against savagery and barbarism is a cruel lie that hides a sadistic police history of white supremacist violence against the poor. We'll never be free as long as cops patrol our streets, and Geo Maher's book helps light our way in our struggle to build a world free from the plague of police. -- David Correia, author of Police: A Field GuideAn essential introduction to the case for abolishing the police. * Publishers Weekly *In A World Without Police, [Maher] advocates for police abolition alongside community safety. * Lit Hub (75 Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Summer) *[A World Without Police] is nothing if not exhaustive. From transit police to the police unions under the Fraternal Order of the Police to a complicit Black elite, Maher implicates the police and its allies in the history of American violence writ large. -- Kamil Ahsan * NPR Books *Both one of the most compelling arguments for police abolition and a complete depiction of the nationwide George Floyd uprisings to date ... Sure to be a key abolitionist text for activists and organizers. -- Christian Noakes * Workers World *Compelling ... combin[ing] political theory and history with accessible writing ... [A World Without Police] demonstrate[s] that democratic and egalitarian alternatives already exist. -- Christopher McMichael * New Frame *A World Without Policing lays out a withering takedown of the institution of policing with fiery vim and audacious aplomb. A searing and incisively argued indictment of the edifice of policing and an argument for abolition. -- brian bean * Rampant *
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Verso Books Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
Book SynopsisIn the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections, featuring the editors and writers of the celebrated n+1, as well as some of the world's leading radical thinkers, such as Slavoj Zizek, Angela Davis, and Rebecca Solnit.The book conveys the intense excitement of those present at the birth of a counterculture, while providing the movement with a serious platform for debating goals, demands, and tactics. Articles address the history of the "horizontalist" structure at OWS; how to keep a live-in going when there is a giant mountain of laundry building up; how very rich the very rich have become; the messages and meaning of the "We are the 99%" tumblr website; occupations in Oakland, Boston, Atlanta, and elsewhere; what happens next; and much more.Trade ReviewOccupy! abounds with insights on how the occupiers have dealt with internal challenges to their experiment in direct democracy. -- Andrew Ross * Guardian *Both analytical and full of vivid experience ... These blog-style pieces are interspersed with more substantive writings, which are the true strength of the collection ... but most interesting are those by lesser-known writers who bring us vivid historical analyses of various aspects of the occupations. -- Michael Sayeau * Observer *Unlike most quickie publications, the book is gorgeous, a testament to beautiful book design ... the essays are thoughtful pieces of first-person reportage. [A] clear-eyed and sober examination of the dream world that we created this fall, along with a few brief, tentative explorations of what it will become in the future. It's also an excellent proof-of-concept for speedily published book-length journalism that does work blogs and newspapers simply can't do. This is not some dashed-off smear of a money-making scheme; I recommend it heartily. -- Paul Constant * The Stranger *A heart warming anthology of the voices involved in this surprising grass roots movement. -- Robert Birnbaum * Our Man in Boston *Occupy!, an anthology from the occasional Occupy Gazette published by n+1, includes ... a lovely piece on the difficulties of organising an occupation's laundry, which works as a handy metaphor for some of the movement's larger challenges. * The Economist *
£12.01
Andrews University Press Sociology: A Seventh-Day Adventist Approach for
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£11.95
Rio Nuevo Publishers A Taco Testimony
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£999.99
University of Alaska Press Alaska Eskimo Footwear
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St Augustine's Press Intelligent Guide To Modern Culture
Book SynopsisReceived by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popcorn. It shows just why culture matters in an age without faith and gives an extended argument against the "post-modernist" world view.
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ATF Press Being Faithful in Diversity: Religions and Social
Book SynopsisBeing Faithful in Diversity considers the facts and natures of religious diversity and examines responses to them. It then explores the more difficult issue about how it is we are to be true to our religious positions and live within the context of religious diversity. The challenges we face include the fact of religious diversity in itself, the decline of old supports for faith, the disappearance of former taken for granted starting places, such as the monarchy, the British empire and Christendom; and finally the rise of and presence of newer forms of inter-religious competition and conflict. Newspapers are full of images of religious conflict overseas and reports of religious competition and conflict at home. Is it possible to negotiate the competing demands and claims between religious groups and the competition and conflict between them and secularist groups?
£22.79
Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press The State Construction of 'Japaneseness': The
Book SynopsisFor more than 140 years, Japan's koseki registration system has functioned as the official means by which an individual qualifies as "Japanese". Information concerning each family is entered into one koseki register record in a system that documents the status relationship information of Japan's population based on the notion of "bloodline". Tracing the history of the koseki registration system from its inception in the Meiji era through its use in Japan's colonial holdings in the pre-war era and to the present day, The State Construction of "Japaneseness" challenges the very foundations of the system, arguing that it promotes prejudice and discrimination and fosters a divisive understanding of the "Japanese" as a people. This significant work presents conclusive evidence on how the koseki registration system has used deeply problematic understandings of ethnicity, citizenship and the family to define "the Japanese", excluding and discriminating against those unable to fit into the framework of this highly politicised bureaucratic system.
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Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Fighting Prejudice in Japan: The Families of
Book SynopsisThis collection of twelve life stories delves into the experiences of families of Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) patients who tell their own stories in their own words. In detailed interviews spanning more than ten years, Ai Kurosaka presents their struggles from the previously neglected perspective of family members of patients. The storytellers tell how they were torn by experiences of separation, discrimination and broken relationships. Like fugitives, many spent years hiding the truth and deceiving others to protect themselves and their families, and they reveal how this affected their relationships with others, but also with themselves. These recollections reveal agony and repentance, but are also stories of resilience that show the courage of the storytellers in speaking up and in challenging the government's policy on Hansen's Disease. This book breaks the silence of families of Hansen's Disease patients and seeks to restore relationships for families of patients and the wider society.Table of Contents Figure Photographs Acknowledgements Introduction Short History of Hansen’s Disease in Japan Part I: Stories as Told by Daughters and Sisters Episode 1: Restored Memories Episode 2: Thanking Parents for Giving Birth to Me Episode 3: Painful Consciousness of Hating My Own Father Episode 4: I Should Have Been Nicer to My Father Episode 5: Never Ever Moving Away Episode 6: Living in the Sanatorium despite Being a Non?patient Part II: Stories as Told by Sons and Brothers Episode 7: Son of a ‘Leper’ Episode 8: At the Forefront of the Bereaved Families’ Lawsuit Episode 9: Forced out of High School Episode 10: Growing up without Knowing Parents Episode 11: Proudly Born in Wak?en Episode 12: Unfulfilled Aspirations Conclusion Notes References Further Reading Index
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AU Press Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure
Book SynopsisMacrosociology – the study of large-scale social structures andthe fundamental principles of social organization – was the styleof sociology practiced by the founders of the discipline. Today, thesocial theories of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, and HerbertSpencer (among others) are commonly studied as part of the history ofthe field, but the macrosociological approach no longer dominates thediscipline. Sociocultural Systems aims to reinstatemacrosciology as the heart of the discipline by demonstrating that bothclassical and contemporary macrosociologists stand upon common ground.Sociocultural Systems provides a critical understanding ofsocial institutions and issues while also furnishing a framework forpossible solutions to the perennial social crises that are part andparcel of the development of human societies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements- xi Preface- xiii Introduction- 3 1. Principles of Macrosociology- 7 2. Materialism in Macrosociology- 37 3. Evolutionism in the Work of the Founders- 67 4. Contemporary Social Evolution- 91 5. Bureaucratization- 125 6. Capital- 155 7. The State- 193 8. Rationalization- 221 9. The System- 239 A Glossary of Sociology- 265 Notes- 343 References- 365 Index- 371
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Grafton and Scratch Publishers Wondrous Mrs. Claus
£21.33
George F. Thompson Choosing Fatherhood: America’S Second Chance
Book SynopsisFamilies come in all sizes, shapes, and traditions, each a unique variation of a universal human theme. Whether one comes from a heterosexual, single-sex, or one-parent home, stability and love are paramount. Unfortunately, in the United States, the absence of fathers from their children’s lives has become a real problem. In fact, the Brookings Institute has identified absentee fathers as America's most pressing problem—greater than the economy, education, the environment, health care, infrastructure, you name it. Why? Because nearly every social ill finds an umbrella, a home if you will, in the fatherless home. Choosing Fatherhood: America's Second Chance is meant to explore this issue as no previous book has. And it does so through the art of photography, in which Lewis Kostiner makes portraits of dads who are involved in their children's lives. The book is also accompanied by essays written by leading authorities on the subject: Juan Williams of FOX News, David Travis who was Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago for more than thirty-five years, sociologist Shipra Parikh at Loyola University in Chicago, sociologist Derrick M. Bryan at the Morehouse College, and Roland Warren, former director of the National Fatherhood Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing fatherhood in America, who also served on President Obama's task force on fatherless homes. Getting fathers to be more involved in their children’s lives is of paramount importance, if the United States is to regain ground as an international leader. Right now, the statistics look grim: forty years ago only eleven percent of America's children lived in homes without fathers, but today more than a third do. This translates into high poverty rates, high drop-out rates in high school, high rates of incarceration, multiple behavioral problems, and the list goes on. As President Obama has declared, fatherhood does not begin with the ecstasy of conception but with the beauty of childbirth and the responsibilities that come with creating and caring for a human life. Although changes in custody rulings and other policy remedies are possible, behavioral patterns are often outside the reach of policy. Choosing Fatherhood offers a hopeful direction that America does have a second chance at correcting a troubling trend, but time is slipping, and awareness of the problem is an important start. (See the publishers website for further information about events and a slide show from the book: http://gftbooks.com/books_Kostiner.html ) Go here to see an interview with the photographer Lewis Kostiner and Juan Williams who wrote the introduction: http://video.foxnews.com/v/2197946608001/
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Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Elements of French Deaf Heritage
Book SynopsisFrench Deaf culture is regarded as a major influence on the formation of other Deaf cultures around the world, notably American Deaf culture. In Elements of French Deaf Heritage, Ulf Hedberg and Harlan Lane document the development of Deaf culture in France by way of Deaf schools, Deaf associations, private and professional networks, publishing, and the arts. This highly visual work captures these forces from the late 18th century through the end of the 19th century, when cultural formation began to shift to cultural maintenance. Encyclopedic in scope, this examination of the evolution of Deaf ethnicity in France aims to disseminate an extensive amount of archival information, now available for the first time in the English language.Trade Review"Readers can relish the richness of French Deaf heritage by reading about early Deaf founders of schools, teachers, artists, writers, and publishers who formed Deaf associations, Deaf congresses and Deaf presses. Maps, tables, and photographic illustrations (both black-and-white and color) enhance the book’s encyclopedic format. An appendix titled 'Ethnicity in the Deaf-World' offers a primer on the book's underlying premise that Deaf minorities constitute unique ethnic groups worldwide...Highly recommended. All readers." -- J. F. Andrews * CHOICE Reviews *
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Apollo Publishers One by One: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the
Book SynopsisAs seen on The Today Show A page-turning memoir from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community—and an up-close look at America's new health crisis. Behind closed doors, millions of people abuse opioids. Nicholas Bush was one of them. In this beautifully poignant and refreshingly honest memoir, Bush boldly allows readers into his addiction-ravaged community. We see how heroin nearly claimed his life on multiple occasions, how it stole the lives of his young siblings and friends, and how it continues to wage a deadly toll on American neighborhoods—claiming thousands of lives and decreasing the average lifespan. But we also see that there is a way off of the devastating rollercoaster of opioid addiction, even for the most afflicted. Nicholas fights for recovery, claws his way out of a criminal livelihood, and finds his footing with faith and family, providing Americans with the inspirational story that is deeply needed today.Trade Review“Bush’s memoir opens with a bang…Readers looking for the pervasiveness of despair and addiction, look no further; Bush’s family is certainly representative. That’s the central message of [One by One], which tracks matter-of-factly—without the war-story glorification of too many recovery books—what it means to be boxed in by drugs.” —Kirkus Reviews"Nicholas Bush, thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your story. Thank you for writing this book."—Craig Melvin, host of The Today Show "A great read."—Cynthia Newsome, midday anchor for 41 Action News
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Catapult The Crying Book
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERA poignant and piercing examination of the phenomenon of tears—exhaustive, yes, but also open-ended. . . A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book. —Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected SchizophreniasSpellbinding and propulsive—the map of a luminous mind in conversation with books, songs, friends, scientific theories, literary histories, her own jagged joy, and despair. Heather Christle is a visionary writer. —Leni Zumas, author of Red ClocksThis bestselling lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review).Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence.Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
£12.34
Belt Publishing Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the
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Rutgers University Press Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our
Book SynopsisWe’re losing our culture… our heritage… our traditions… everything is being swept away. Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young villagers in West Africa. But what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, and to what ends does this rhetoric get deployed? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Berliner travels around the world, from Guinea-Conakry, where globalization affects the traditional patriarchal structure of cultural transmission, to Laos, where foreign UNESCO experts have become self-appointed saviors of the nation’s cultural heritage. He also embarks on a voyage of critical self-exploration, reflecting on how anthropologists handle their own sense of cultural alienation while becoming deeply embedded in other cultures. This leads into a larger examination of how and why we experience exonostalgia, a longing for vanished cultural heydays we never directly experienced.Losing Culture provides a nuanced analysis of these phenomena, addressing why intergenerational cultural transmission is vital to humans, yet also considering how efforts to preserve disappearing cultures are sometimes misguided or even reactionary. Blending anthropological theory with vivid case studies, this book teaches us how to appreciate the multitudes of different ways we might understand loss, memory, transmission, and heritage.Trade Review“Losing Culture is about nostalgia, combining self-reflection and rich ethnographic examples from Africa and Asia with a critical view of the disciplinary anxieties of anthropology. Nostalgia, in this wonderful book, is treated as one more thing that is, in our tormented world, no longer what it used to be.” -- Arjun Appadurai * author of The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition *"David Berliner stands at the crossroads, observing the natives, the philosophers, the heritage bureaucrats, the tourists, and other anthropologists as well, from all nationalities, when they come to look at – or even live – the past in the present. But what does he become himself? A cultural chameleon? When you have read Losing Culture, perhaps your anthropology will never be the same again." -- Ulf Hannerz * author of Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Global Scenarios *“By linking the chameleon figure of the anthropologist with the theme of nostalgia, Berliner demonstrates anthropologists’ important role in disabusing the general public of the illusion that “cultures” can be rebuilt in their original form. This subtle departure from conventional studies of heritage places a new and desirable emphasis on the ethical choices facing anthropologists when confronted with the politics of contested pasts. Of particular value is the unusual but well-grounded comparative perspective that Berliner draws from his findings in West Africa and Southeast Asia.” -- Michael Herzfeld * author of Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok *"What Berliner sets out to do in this concisely insightful little book is to 'refine our understanding of how cultural loss manifests today in different contexts' with a special view to 'the rhetorical forms that lead to this diagnosis.' This ambitious task of addressing such a tremendous, worldwide problematic without losing touch with ethnography is anything but simple....Impressive." * Anthropos *"Losing Culture speaks to us both through its fascinating ethnographic cases and the lucid eye it poses onto ourselves, the plastic and nostalgic anthropologists. Its insight can apply to numerous cultural contexts, as diverse as they may be, by situating participant observers in contradictory and complex globalized cultural networks… Berliner offers a lucid study of the heterogeneity and multiplicity of participants in the accelerated times of a rapidly changing world." -- Francisco Rivera * Anthropologica *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Loss of Culture and the Desire to Transmit It Onward Chapter 1: Transmission Impossible in West Africa Chapter 2: UNESCO, Bureaucratic Nostalgia, and Cultural Loss Chapter 3: Toward the End of Societies? Chapter 4: The Plastic Anthropologist Conclusion: For a cultural and patrimonial diplomacy Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our
Book SynopsisWe’re losing our culture… our heritage… our traditions… everything is being swept away. Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young villagers in West Africa. But what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, and to what ends does this rhetoric get deployed? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Berliner travels around the world, from Guinea-Conakry, where globalization affects the traditional patriarchal structure of cultural transmission, to Laos, where foreign UNESCO experts have become self-appointed saviors of the nation’s cultural heritage. He also embarks on a voyage of critical self-exploration, reflecting on how anthropologists handle their own sense of cultural alienation while becoming deeply embedded in other cultures. This leads into a larger examination of how and why we experience exonostalgia, a longing for vanished cultural heydays we never directly experienced.Losing Culture provides a nuanced analysis of these phenomena, addressing why intergenerational cultural transmission is vital to humans, yet also considering how efforts to preserve disappearing cultures are sometimes misguided or even reactionary. Blending anthropological theory with vivid case studies, this book teaches us how to appreciate the multitudes of different ways we might understand loss, memory, transmission, and heritage.Trade Review“Losing Culture is about nostalgia, combining self-reflection and rich ethnographic examples from Africa and Asia with a critical view of the disciplinary anxieties of anthropology. Nostalgia, in this wonderful book, is treated as one more thing that is, in our tormented world, no longer what it used to be.” -- Arjun Appadurai * author of The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition *"David Berliner stands at the crossroads, observing the natives, the philosophers, the heritage bureaucrats, the tourists, and other anthropologists as well, from all nationalities, when they come to look at – or even live – the past in the present. But what does he become himself? A cultural chameleon? When you have read Losing Culture, perhaps your anthropology will never be the same again." -- Ulf Hannerz * author of Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Global Scenarios *“By linking the chameleon figure of the anthropologist with the theme of nostalgia, Berliner demonstrates anthropologists’ important role in disabusing the general public of the illusion that “cultures” can be rebuilt in their original form. This subtle departure from conventional studies of heritage places a new and desirable emphasis on the ethical choices facing anthropologists when confronted with the politics of contested pasts. Of particular value is the unusual but well-grounded comparative perspective that Berliner draws from his findings in West Africa and Southeast Asia.” -- Michael Herzfeld * author of Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok *"What Berliner sets out to do in this concisely insightful little book is to 'refine our understanding of how cultural loss manifests today in different contexts' with a special view to 'the rhetorical forms that lead to this diagnosis.' This ambitious task of addressing such a tremendous, worldwide problematic without losing touch with ethnography is anything but simple....Impressive." * Anthropos *“Losing Culture is about nostalgia, combining self-reflection and rich ethnographic examples from Africa and Asia with a critical view of the disciplinary anxieties of anthropology. Nostalgia, in this wonderful book, is treated as one more thing that is, in our tormented world, no longer what it used to be.” -- Arjun Appadurai * author of The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition *"David Berliner stands at the crossroads, observing the natives, the philosophers, the heritage bureaucrats, the tourists, and other anthropologists as well, from all nationalities, when they come to look at – or even live – the past in the present. But what does he become himself? A cultural chameleon? When you have read Losing Culture, perhaps your anthropology will never be the same again." -- Ulf Hannerz * author of Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Global Scenarios *“By linking the chameleon figure of the anthropologist with the theme of nostalgia, Berliner demonstrates anthropologists’ important role in disabusing the general public of the illusion that “cultures” can be rebuilt in their original form. This subtle departure from conventional studies of heritage places a new and desirable emphasis on the ethical choices facing anthropologists when confronted with the politics of contested pasts. Of particular value is the unusual but well-grounded comparative perspective that Berliner draws from his findings in West Africa and Southeast Asia.” -- Michael Herzfeld * author of Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok *"What Berliner sets out to do in this concisely insightful little book is to 'refine our understanding of how cultural loss manifests today in different contexts' with a special view to 'the rhetorical forms that lead to this diagnosis.' This ambitious task of addressing such a tremendous, worldwide problematic without losing touch with ethnography is anything but simple....Impressive." * Anthropos *"Losing Culture speaks to us both through its fascinating ethnographic cases and the lucid eye it poses onto ourselves, the plastic and nostalgic anthropologists. Its insight can apply to numerous cultural contexts, as diverse as they may be, by situating participant observers in contradictory and complex globalized cultural networks… Berliner offers a lucid study of the heterogeneity and multiplicity of participants in the accelerated times of a rapidly changing world." -- Francisco Rivera * Anthropologica *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Loss of Culture and the Desire to Transmit It Onward Chapter 1: Transmission Impossible in West Africa Chapter 2: UNESCO, Bureaucratic Nostalgia, and Cultural Loss Chapter 3: Toward the End of Societies? Chapter 4: The Plastic Anthropologist Conclusion: For a cultural and patrimonial diplomacy Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Aspiring in Later Life: Movements across Time,
Book SynopsisIn our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to aging itself but also to planning the next generation’s future, preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued in contexts of translocal mobility.This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.Download the open access book here.Trade Review"A welcome addition to the study of migration and aging, this volume explores ambition, intimacy, and other aspirations as elders envision a good life and craft new vistas in later years. Ethnographically vivid fieldwork draws the reader into the uncertainties and elations of intergenerational households of transmigrants, returnees, and refugees." -- Michele Ruth Gamburd * author of Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka *“This important volume advances the idea that people do have aspirations all through the life course and that we need to know more about their thoughts, choices, and how they dynamically engage with cultural scripts about aging." -- Sherylyn Briller * professor of anthropology at Purdue University *Table of Contents Introduction 1Megha Amrith, Victoria K. Sakti, and Dora Sampaio PA R T IDesire and Self-Realization 1 Growing Old Hand in Hand: Aspirations of Romantic Love in Later Life among Romanian Transmigrants in RomeDumitrița Luncă 2 Letting Go and Looking Ahead: The Aspirations of Middle-Aged Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore and Hong KongMegha Amrith 3 Aspirational Movements: Later-Life Mobility as a Female Resource to Age WellLisa Johnson PA R T I IIntergenerational Negotiations 4 Aspiring to Retire: Intergenerational Care in a Ghanaian Transnational FamilyCati Coe 5 Between Aging Parents There and Young Children Here: The Aspirations of Late-Middle-Aged Peruvian Migrants in Santiago as a Transnational Sandwich GenerationAlfonso Otaegui 6 Whose Aspirations? Intergenerational Expectations and Hopes in Eastern UgandaSusan Reynolds Whyte PA RT I I ILiving in the Present 7 Before It Ends: Aging, Gender, and Migration in a Transnational Mexican CommunityJulia Pauli 8 Disrupted Futures: The Shifting Aspirations of Older Cameroonians Living in DisplacementNele Wolter 9 “Setting Off from the Mountain Pass”: Facing Death and Preparing for the Journey Ahead in Tibetan ExileHarmandeep Kaur Gill AfterwordErdmute Alber Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Aspiring in Later Life: Movements across Time,
Book SynopsisIn our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to aging itself but also to planning the next generation’s future, preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued in contexts of translocal mobility. This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition. Download the open access book here.Trade Review"A welcome addition to the study of migration and aging, this volume explores ambition, intimacy, and other aspirations as elders envision a good life and craft new vistas in later years. Ethnographically vivid fieldwork draws the reader into the uncertainties and elations of intergenerational households of transmigrants, returnees, and refugees." — Michele Ruth Gamburd, author of Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka “This important volume advances the idea that people do have aspirations all through the life course and that we need to know more about their thoughts, choices, and how they dynamically engage with cultural scripts about aging." — Sherylyn Briller, professor of anthropology at Purdue UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Megha Amrith, Victoria K. Sakti, and Dora Sampaio PA R T I Desire and Self-Realization 1 Growing Old Hand in Hand: Aspirations of Romantic Love in Later Life among Romanian Transmigrants in Rome Dumitrița Luncă 2 Letting Go and Looking Ahead: The Aspirations of Middle-Aged Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore and Hong Kong Megha Amrith 3 Aspirational Movements: Later-Life Mobility as a Female Resource to Age Well Lisa Johnson PA R T I I Intergenerational Negotiations 4 Aspiring to Retire: Intergenerational Care in a Ghanaian Transnational Family Cati Coe 5 Between Aging Parents There and Young Children Here: The Aspirations of Late-Middle-Aged Peruvian Migrants in Santiago as a Transnational Sandwich Generation Alfonso Otaegui 6 Whose Aspirations? Intergenerational Expectations and Hopes in Eastern Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte PA RT I I I Living in the Present 7 Before It Ends: Aging, Gender, and Migration in a Transnational Mexican Community Julia Pauli 8 Disrupted Futures: The Shifting Aspirations of Older Cameroonians Living in Displacement Nele Wolter 9 “Setting Off from the Mountain Pass”: Facing Death and Preparing for the Journey Ahead in Tibetan Exile Harmandeep Kaur Gill Afterword Erdmute Alber Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent
Book SynopsisFor two decades, Sébastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance parties in a quest to answer a fundamental question: Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves? Vivid and at times deeply personal, this book offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight, to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool. Tutenges shows what it means and feels to move beyond the ordinary into altered states in which the transgressive, spectacular, and unexpected take place. He argues that the primary aim of group intoxication is the religious experience that Émile Durkheim calls collective effervescence, the essence of which is a sense of connecting with other people and being part of a larger whole. This experience is empowering and emboldening and may lead to crime and deviance, but it is at the same time vital to our humanity because it strengthens social bonds and solidarity. The book fills important gaps in Durkheim’s social theory and contributes to current debates in micro-sociology as well as cultural criminology and cultural sociology. Here, for the first time, readers will discover a detailed account of collective effervescence in contemporary society that includes: an explanation of what collective effervescence is; a description of the conditions that generate collective effervescence; a typology of the varieties of collective effervescence; a discussion of how collective effervescence manifests in the realm of nightlife, politics, sports, and religion; and an analysis of how commercial forces amplify and capitalize on the universal human need for intoxication. This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition. Download the open access ebook here.Trade Review"Intoxication is a remarkable and ambitious book. Rarely is ethnography connected to classical social theory with such productive results. Tutenges offers a significant extension of the concept of collective effervescence. We learn that Durkheim, Mauss, and Bataille are essential resources for understanding the self, the sacred, and the collectivity in modernity."— Philip Smith, Professor of Sociology, Yale University "Tutenges’s study of collective effervescence is commanding, thoughtful, and thought-provoking. Intoxication is a stunning example of ethnographically informed social theory."— Lois Presser, author of Why We Harm "From sports to religion to party venues, effervescence is as much a blind spot of research as it is a phenomenon fundamental to society’s very make-up. Intoxication introduces us to the party practices of today’s youth in vivid fashion and with a remarkable interpretative sensitivity. Far from being the wastelands of meaning they appear to be, these drunken landscapes are existential theaters for the abandonment of the self to social forces and the experience of other ways of being and feeling. A long-awaited book which could well become a campus classic."— François Gauthier, author of Religion, Modernity, Globalisation. Nation-State to Market "Tutenges’s study of collective effervescence is commanding, thoughtful, and thought-provoking. Intoxication is a stunning example of ethnographically informed social theory."— Lois Presser, author of Why We Harm "From sports to religion to party venues, effervescence is as much a blind spot of research as it is a phenomenon fundamental to society’s very make-up. Intoxication introduces us to the party practices of today’s youth in vivid fashion and with a remarkable interpretative sensitivity. Far from being the wastelands of meaning they appear to be, these drunken landscapes are existential theaters for the abandonment of the self to social forces and the experience of other ways of being and feeling. A long-awaited book which could well become a campus classic."— François Gauthier, author of Religion, Modernity, Globalisation. Nation-State to Market "Intoxication is a remarkable and ambitious book. Rarely is ethnography connected to classical social theory with such productive results. Tutenges offers a significant extension of the concept of collective effervescence. We learn that Durkheim, Mauss, and Bataille are essential resources for understanding the self, the sacred, and the collectivity in modernity."— Philip Smith, Professor of Sociology, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Ways to Effervescence 3 Unity 4 Intensity 5 Transgression 6 Symbolization 7 Revitalization 8 Afterword Notes References Index
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Asketischer Protestantismus und der 'Geist' des
Book SynopsisIn den Jahren 1904 und 1905, also vor nunmehr 100 Jahren, veröffentlichte Max Weber seine inzwischen weltberühmte Studie "Die protestantische Ethik und der 'Geist' des Kapitalismus" als Aufsatz in zwei Folgen. Dieser löste unmittelbar nach Erscheinen die erste Kontroverse und später eine Flut von Sekundärliteratur aus. Viele Reaktionen auf die Studie, positive und negative, beruhen freilich auch darauf, daß Text und Kontext mißverstanden wurden.100 Jahre danach ist die Diskussion um die Studie so lebendig wie eh und je. Für die Autoren der Beiträge in diesem Band war das Jubiläum Anlaß, abermals - hoffentlich mit frischem Blick - Text und Kontext zu bedenken. Mehr als sonst wurde dabei auch der Einfluß des Heidelberger Gelehrtenmilieus auf die Konzeption der Studie geprüft. Insbesondere interessierte das Verhältnis von Max Weber und Ernst Troeltsch, die in dieser Phase ihres Schaffens durch eine 'Fachmenschenfreundschaft' eng verbunden waren.Die Beiträge dieses Bandes entstammen einem Symposium, das im Frühjahr 2004 stattfand und an dem Weber- und Troeltsch-Forscher teilnahmen.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) In Wahrheit frei: Protestantische Profile und
Book Synopsis"Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen" - diese Zusage aus dem Johannes-Evangelium gilt gewiss einer Dimension von Wahrheit, die unser Alltagsverständnis weit übersteigt. Dennoch ist selbst in unserer säkularen Lebenswelt der Zusammenhang zwischen Wahrheit und Freiheit offenkundig. Wahrheit kann nur unter den Bedingungen der Freiheit öffentlich und deshalb heilsam sein. Eine Freiheit hingegen, die sich von der Orientierung an der Wahrheit loslöst, verkommt zum nackten Egoismus und Opportunismus. "In Wahrheit frei" - diese Formel zielt auf beides: Frei sein im Horizont der Wahrheit ebenso wie wirklich frei sein. Auch die evangelischen Kirchen müssen sich der Frage stellen, ob sie diesen Zusammenhang stets erkannt und gewahrt haben. Freiheit kann zwar die Religion nicht beschädigen - sehr wohl aber die Religion die Freiheit, wie die Geschichte vielfach ausweist. Robert Leicht beleuchtet in den hier gesammelten Essays diesen unaufgebbaren Zusammenhang aus den unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven: Wie steht es mit der Anerkennung der Religionsfreiheit anderer Religionen? Welche Rolle spielen die Zehn Gebote in unserer Politik? Wie steht es mit der Kirche in der Demokratie - und der Demokratie in der Kirche? Evangelium und Öffentlichkeit: Wozu studieren wir heute Theologie? Und wie ist das möglich: Christentum als Beruf?
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe: Band I/12: Verstehende
Book SynopsisDie im vorliegenden Band zusammengestellten Texte dokumentieren und erhellen den Denkweg, auf dem sich Weber, vergleichsweise spät, der Soziologie zuwandte. Er wollte die Stellung und Aufgabe dieser - gerade in Deutschland sehr umstrittenen - neuen Wissenschaft im Zusammenhang der Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften und im Bezugsrahmen seiner eigenen Forschungen klären, ihre eigentümliche Erklärungsweise methodologisch und begrifflich-theoretisch fundieren sowie ihr Erklärungspotential in groß angelegten historisch und kulturell vergleichenden Untersuchungen beweisen. Der Band versammelt Schriften, Reden und Diskussionsbeiträge zu methodologischen und theoretischen Problemen, die in diesem Rahmen zwischen 1908 und 1917 entstanden und mit wenigen Ausnahmen auch veröffentlicht wurden. Dem Verständnis der Texte dienen die ihnen beigefügten Erläuterungen, editorische Berichte beschreiben ihren Entstehungskontext und ihre Überlieferung und die Einleitung behandelt die übergreifenden thematischen und systematischen Zusammenhänge. Zu den insgesamt 19 Texten gehören die höchst einflussreichen und heute als klassisch geltenden Abhandlungen Über einige Kategorien der verstehenden Soziologie und Der Sinn der "Wertfreiheit" der soziologischen und ökonomischen Wissenschaften, außerdem, früher veröffentlicht und wirkungsgeschichtlich weniger bedeutsam, Die Grenznutzlehre und das "psychophysische Grundgesetz" und "Energetische" Kulturtheorien. Wilhelm Ostwald: Energetische Grundlagen der Kulturwissenschaft (1909). Hervorzuheben sind daneben die dem Werturteils-Aufsatz voraus und zugrunde liegenden Äußerungen zur Werturteildiskussion im Ausschuss des Vereins für Sozialpolitik, das Fragment Georg Simmel als Soziologe und Theoretiker der Geldwirtschaft sowie die ausführliche Besprechung Adolf Weber: Die Aufgaben der Volkswirtschaftslehre als Wissenschaft. Bei den übrigen Texten handelt es sich fast ausschließlich um Diskussionsbeiträge Webers, in der Hauptsache zu Vorträgen auf den Soziologentagen 1910 und 1912 sowie im Verein für Sozialpolitik. Weber äußert sich darin nicht nur zu der jeweils verhandelten Sache, sondern durchgehend auch zu grundlegenden methodologischen und theoretischen Problemen kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Gesammelte Werke in deutscher Sprache: Band 13:
Book SynopsisDieser Band enthält siebzehn Aufsätze Karl R. Poppers aus den Jahren 1958 bis 1989. Sieben davon erscheinen hier erstmals in deutscher Sprache. In ihnen fasst Popper die Ergebnisse einer seiner vielen Denkrichtungen in einfachen und klaren Worten prägnant zusammen. Die siebenundzwanzig Thesen zur "Logik der Sozialwissenschaften" stehen nach wie vor als unbeantwortete Herausforderung an die Geistes-und Sozialwissenschaften im Raum. Das darin enthaltene "Rationalitätsprinzip" hat sich als konstruktiver Beitrag für alle Zielwissenschaften erwiesen, von den Geschichts- und Sozialwissenschaften bis hin zur Biochemie. Poppers Analyse des "Mythos des Rahmens" ist eine Kritik der außerhalb der Wissenschaften verbreiteten Kultur der Unwahrheit. Die Selbstüberwindung des Materialismus in der Physik hat weitreichende Folgen für die Philosophie. Und seine Evolutionstheorie beschreitet einen dritten Weg zwischen Darwin und Bibel, der inzwischen auch von Biologen nachvollzogen wird. Seine Dreiweltenlehre bleibt umstritten, lockt aber mit dem Potenzial einer grundlegend neuen Weltsicht. Das gleiche gilt für seine noch unausgelotete Propensitätentheorie. Zusammengehalten werden Poppers Lehren von einer originellen Kosmologie, die die Evolution vom ersten Lichtstrahl, der das Universum erhellte, bis zum letzten neuveröffentlichten Buch als Evolution des Wissens interpretiert.
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