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The University of Michigan Press Scenes from Bourgeois Life
Book SynopsisProposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. This study of history, class, and spectatorship offers proof of ‘why theatre matters’, and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.Trade Review“Ridout’s prose is a pleasure to read; his glosses on theory are illuminating; his excavations of primary texts are surprising; his argument is timely, and substantial enough to influence the course of scholarship in the field.”—Julia Jarcho, Brown University“An important contribution to theater studies and the study of the role of spectatorship... the book also deepens our understanding of the public character of theater (and art in general) and their relationship to the social and cultural processes in capitalism.”—Bojana Kunst, Justus Liebig University Giessen“Ridout identifies what other scholars of spectatorship have failed to see: that the ongoing wrenching of hands about how spectators watch suffering on a stage but feel or assume an inability to do anything about it other than observe and talk and critique, is a historical condition that can be changed… This is the new necessary book on spectatorship.”—Maurya Wickstrom, CUNY Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island""Scenes from Bourgeois Life is a stunning piece of scholarship, and one of the most enjoyable texts to be published on the politics of spectatorship in recent years.In challenging the privileged position of a disinterested observer, what it offers is a prompt and a methodology for appreciating and potentially acting upon the contingent circumstances of our own historical moment, in which the ‘distance’ of suffering from bourgeois subjecthood risks serving as an alibi for silence."" —Theatre Research International
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The University of Michigan Press Alan Rudolphs Trouble in Mind Tampering with
Book SynopsisDespite a career spanning over forty years, filmmaker Alan Rudolph has flown largely under the radar of independent film scholars and enthusiasts, often remembered as Robert Altman’s protege. Through a reading of his 1985 film Trouble in Mind, Caryl Flinn demonstrates that Rudolph is long overdue for critical re-evaluation.Trade ReviewIn recent years the discipline of cinema studies seems to be moving into the archive but without the excitement that characterized so much of the writing during the early years of cinema studies. This book on Trouble in Mind promises a new mode of study with roots in the archive but with multiple strategies for making it yield interpretive criticism. The result is a rich appreciation of how the film was received." - Krin Gabbard, Stony Brook University"This book fills a void in the work on independent cinema, particularly with regard to the 1980s, as well as director Alan Rudolph, who has largely remained in the shadow of his mentor Robert Altman in film scholarship. It serves as a model for reading films of this period in light of Reagan-era politics and policies." - Richard Ness, Western Illinois UniversityTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Plot: Borrowed Pasts and Unclear Futures Chapter 3: Trouble in Mind in Independent Cinema: Smooth Sailing in a Troubled Term Chapter 4: Neo noir and Anti noir: Playing with Tropes Chapter 5: The Style of Dreams: Image and Music Chapter 6: The 1980s: Broken Politics, Surfaces, and Dreams Chapter 7: Marketing and Reception Chapter 8: Archives, Afterlives, and Author’s Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Media Work
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Disability Theory
Book SynopsisSince the 1970s the ascendancy of minority identities based on gender, race, and sexuality has transformed the landscape of cultural theory, embracing greater political urgency and relevance. This book provides evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring to these and other key questions.Trade ReviewDisability Theory is a field-defining book: and if you're curious about what disability"" has to do with ""theory,"" it's just the book you've been waiting for, too. - Michael Berube, Penn State University ""Magisterially written, thoroughly researched, and polemically powerful."" - Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego ""A powerful manifesto that calls theory to account and forces readers to think beyond our comfort zones."" - Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles
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The University of Michigan Press In Permanent Crisis
Book SynopsisRefugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently appear in European mainstream news in emergency situations. Through analysis of work by filmmakers Michael Haneke, Fatih Akin, and Alfonso Cuarón, In Permanent Crisis contemplates the way mass media depictions become invoked by film to frame ethnic and racial Otherness in Europe as adornments of catastrophe.
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The University of Michigan Press Interpretive Quantification
Book SynopsisRevolutionary volume demonstrates how crossing the positivist and post-positivist divide improves political science researchTrade ReviewInterpretive Quantification offers a timely, much-needed transgression of a major theoretical-methodological boundary limiting the possibilities of IR: with high-quality contributions organized in a systematic way, it demonstrates how quantitative methods can and should enrich constructivist and critical approaches, thereby opening up fascinating new research avenues."" - Stephane Baele, University of Exeter""...deserves a place on the short list of books and articles that change, not what we know about the world, but how we think about it. Very highly recommended for graduate students and faculty alike."" - Bear Braumoeller, The Ohio State University""This truly path-breaking volume opens up productive lines of scholarship that have been sorely neglected."" - Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Book SynopsisBy combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from empirical research, Shelley L. Tremain compellingly argues that the conception of disability that currently predominates in the discipline of philosophy is inextricably intertwined with the underrepresentation of disabled philosophers in the profession of philosophy.Trade ReviewA much-needed contribution to the general intellectual discussion of disability, to Foucault studies, and to feminist theory. Tremain plows into some central tenets of disability theories and some of the most taken-for-granted feminist criticisms of Foucault. She also indicts professional philosophy in North America for its structural exclusion of disabled scholars. The evidence she presents and the arguments she makes are strong and sound."" - Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond""Offers a master class on Foucault and feminist theory as it addresses the dangerous and biased exclusion of disability within academic philosophy."" - Jay Dolmage, University of Waterloo
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The University of Michigan Press Dialectical Imaginaries Materialist Approaches
Book SynopsisBrings together essays that analyse the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of US Latino/a literature. The editors argue that recent global events have compelled contemporary scholars to reexamine traditional interpretive models that centre on identity politics and an ethics of multiculturalism.Trade ReviewCompelling and provocative, this is an impressive and timely collection of essays. Although Marxist approaches have always had an important presence in Latino/a literary studies, this is the first collection that foregrounds such approaches to contemporary texts. The essays range over issues as diverse as mass incarceration, the privatization of public resources, residential segregation, waning state sovereignty, Chicana feminism, and new forms of class conflict. Dialectical Imaginaries will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the field, as well as scholars of other ethnic literatures and American literature more broadly."" - John Alba Cutler, Northwestern University""A sophisticated and stimulating book, one that is sure to have a significant impact on literary and cultural studies. . . . The essays dissolve stale debates about race/ethnicity versus class by demonstrating the intrinsic working-class-ness of much Latino/a writing, as well as the value of Marxist class analysis in relation to this body of texts."" - Barbara Foley, Rutgers University-Newark
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The University of Michigan Press Fragile Dreams Tales of Liberalism and Power in
Book SynopsisExamines Central European communism, why it failed, and what has come since. Moving loosely chronologically from 1989 to the present, each chapter focuses on topics of importance from the fields of comparative politics and sociology, to feminist and gender studies.Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Revolutions: The fall of communism as witnessed from a beer barrel and beyond Chapter 2. Communism: The political importance of telling a good story Chapter 3: Neoliberalism: Why BMWs don’t just randomly explode! Chapter 4. Nationalism: Liberalism’s evil twin screws up the Enlightenment Chapter 5: Ethnic Conflict: The breakup of Yugoslavia through a feminist lens Chapter 6. “Transitology”: How I joined the global conspiracy against Slovakia Chapter 7. Humanitarian Intervention: Liberalism weaponized in the Western Balkans Chapter 8. International Relations: The West Gets Cocky Chapter 9. Homophobia: Intersectionality and the political uses of fear Chapter 10. Populism: Austerity, fear and loathing on Central Europe’s periphery Chapter 11. Illiberal Democracy: The Political Economy of Hungary’s Liberal Unraveling Liberalism’s fragile dream
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession
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The University of Michigan Press Seeking a Future for the Past
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The University of Michigan Press Climate Games Experiments on How People Prevent
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The University of Michigan Press Bodies on the Front Lines
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Fantasies of Ito Michio
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Autocrats Cant Always Get What They Want State
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LUP - University of Michigan Press From Kosovo to Darfur
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University of Michigan Press Big Feelings
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The University of Michigan Press Dignity Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Private Sectors in Higher Education Structure Function and Change in Eight Countries
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The University of Michigan Press The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Party Conflict and Community Development
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Battles of Armageddon Megiddo and the
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The University of Michigan Press Modern China and Opium
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The University of Michigan Press Distrusting Democrats Outcomes of Participatory
Book SynopsisDoes participation lead citizens of democracies to invest or disinvest in democracy? How does mass participation affect political culture in countries undergoing political transition? This book examines the consequences of citizen involvement in Uganda, one among a number of countries employing the participatory model of constitutional reform.
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The University of Michigan Press Passing Illusions Jewish Visibility in Weimar
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA powerful and original work of scholarship . . . Wallach brings a fresh theoretical perspective to the study of early twentieth-century German-Jewish history and culture, drawing her concept of passing from African-American and LGBT Studies and paying systematic attention to the category of gender throughout."" - Jonathan Hess, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill""Wallach's superbly researched study convincingly shows that German Jews of this era not only had the ability to pass or not-pass as Jewish, but also had ample reasons for taking advantage of this powerful assimilation strategy. One of its great strengths is the author's careful attention to detail about how the need for Jews to pass or not-pass varied according to time, place, and gender."" - Lisa Silverman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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The University of Michigan Press The Burden of the Past
Book SynopsisUtilizing Japanese and South Korean newspaper databases to review discussion of the two countries' disputed historical perceptions from the end of World War II to the present, this book provides readers with the historical framework and the major players involved, offering much-needed clarity on polarizing issues.
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The University of Michigan Press Developing States Shaping Citizenship
Book SynopsisArgues that the quality of citizens' interactions with the government through service provision sends them important signals about what they can hope to gain from political action. These interactions influence not only formal political behaviours, but also collective behaviour, political engagement, and subversive behaviours like tax evasion.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Postcolonial Animal
Book SynopsisArgues for an innovative and overdue posthuman reading of African postcolonial literature
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The University of Michigan Press Performance Constellations Networks of Protest
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The University of Michigan Press Putting Federalism in Its Place The Territorial
Book SynopsisWhat does federalism do to welfare states? This book argues for an approach methodologically focused on configurations of variables within cases rather than a fruitless attempt to isolate the effect of federalism; and one that is engaged with identifying key elements in configurations as well as with when and how their interactions matter.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Why should we care about federalism? Chapter 2: Federalism, Territorial Politics, and Identities Chapter 3: Interests, nationalism, regionalism, and jurisdictionalism Chapter 4: How policies and legacies matter Chapter 5: Federalism, institutions, and parties Chapter Six: How to analyze federalism Bibliography
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The University of Michigan Press The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary
Book SynopsisHuman history is in reality a history of corrupt governmentsTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. The Politics of Bad Governance – A Framework for Analysis Chapter 2. Post-Soviet Bad Governance: A Vicious Circle? Chapter 3. Authoritarian Modernization: Illusions and Temptations Chapter 4. Opportunities and Constraints: Policy Reforms in the 2000s Chapter 5. The Technocratic Traps of Policy Reforms Chapter 6. Success Stories amid Bad Governance Chapter 7. The Politics of Bad Governance: Russia in Comparative Perspective References
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The University of Michigan Press The Disabled Child
Book SynopsisTracks the narratives that have emerged from the community of parent-memoirists who, since the 1980s, have written in resistance of their children’s exclusion from culture. Apgar demonstrates that in the process of telling these stories parental memoirists write their children into dominant cultural narratives about gender, race, and class.Trade Review“The Disabled Child is beautifully written, compelling, and greatly needed. This book is a tour de force, a thorough, in-depth, far-ranging account of the complex topic of parents’ memoirs about their children’s disabilities. Through an exploration of a great variety of autobiographies and memoirs, Amanda Apgar asks how people narrate or fail to narrate the normalcy of their children with disabilities. The book offers an important challenge to normative understandings of what it means to be a person.”— Amy Shuman, The Ohio State University“The Disabled Child challenges and disrupts dominant assumptions about disability and invites new ways of thinking about the nature of belongingness and normalcy. It makes a valuable contribution as a text for scholarly research in disability studies and coursework for in-service professionals.”—Priya Lalvani, Montclair State UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Towards a Narrative Theory of Childhood Development Chapter 2: Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and the Narrative of Overcoming Chapter 3: A Better Future Chapter 4: Gender Normal Future Chapter 5: “There is no narrative”; Childhood Disability, Queerness, and “No Future” Conclusion: Nothing About Them, Without Us Bibliography
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John Wiley & Sons What Music Did The Story of Numerocracy in the West
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Alcohol Science and Society Revisited
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Daughters Dilemma Family Process and the NineteenthCentury Domestic Novel
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The University of Michigan Press Distributive Justice and Economic Development
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The University of Michigan Press Development in Multiple Dimensions Social Power
Book SynopsisWhy do some states provide infrastructure and social services to their citizens, and others do not? In Development in Multiple Dimensions, Alexander Lee examines the origins of success and failure in the public services of developing countries.Trade ReviewIn recent years there has been considerable interest in the diverging development trajectories of Indian states. Some states provide excellent roads, while others invest in education. Why do they provide such different public services or none at all? Unpacking the term development and looking at how power-dynamics differ across states, this book provides a compelling explanation for why such divergence takes place."" - Francesca Refsum Jensenius, University of Oslo
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The University of Michigan Press Spectral Characters
Book SynopsisTheatre's materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonomy and depersonalization. Spectral Characters argues that modern dramatists in fact emphasized the extent to which humans are fictional, made and changed by costumes, settings, props, and spoken dialogue.Trade ReviewAimed at scholars of theatre and of comparative literature, Spectral Characters convincingly argues that the modern stage, through its roots in nineteenth-century melodrama, inherited a number of features related to the supernatural that deeply influenced the making of character in this period." - Giuliano D'Amico, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo"Spectral Characters offers a fresh way to think about realism and modernism, about literary and dramatic character, and about the relationship between narration and performance. It both situates those aesthetic concerns within the ideas of the authors' day and relates them to present-day theories that are shaping scholarship across the humanities and social sciences." - Sharon Marcus, Columbia University
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Discovery of the Fact
Book SynopsisDraws on expertise from lawyers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of classical studies and ancient history, to investigate, historically and comparatively, the relationship between the law, legal institutions, and the boundaries of knowledge in classical Greece and Rome.
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The University of Michigan Press Lawyers Beyond Borders Advancing International
Book SynopsisA book about agency. About how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles - political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical - a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One – Lawyers Beyond Borders: Introduction and Overview Chapter Two – The Seeds of a Rights Revolution Chapter Three – Litigation as Recovery: The Birth of the CJA Chapter Four – The Burmese Connection Chapter Five – Rights and Redress in a “War on Terror” Chapter Six – Private Military Profits and the Search for Justice Chapter Seven – The New Impunity Chapter Eight – The Globalization of Justice Chapter Nine – European Collaborations for Justice in Syria Chapter Ten – Re-trauma and Resilience: The Dynamics of Clients and Counsel Chapter Eleven – The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of a Rights Revolution Acknowledgments Bibliography
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The University of Michigan Press Aid Imperium United States Foreign Policy and
Book SynopsisDeploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America's post-Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia, this book provides the most comprehensive explanation that links US strategic assistance to physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries.Table of Contents 1. Acknowledgements 2. List of Figures 3. List of Tables 4. Abbreviations 5. Introduction 6. United States Aid Imperium and Human Rights 7. Human Rights Renaissance in the Philippines, 1990s 8. From the War on Terror to the Crisis in Arroyo's Strong Republic 9. Overcoming the Human Rights Crisis: Reforms under Obama and Aquino 10. Human Rights Renaissance in Thailand, 1990s 11. From the War on Terror to Thaksin's War on Drugs and Dark Influences 12. Conclusion 13. Appendix 14. Bibliography 15. About the Author
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The University of Michigan Press Diaphanous Bodies
Book SynopsisThrough the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen, Colangelo examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in the process opens up a new area of inquiry in the growing field of literary disability studies.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Tempestuously Able Bodied Clear Indistinct Ideas: Narrative, Sensation, and the Diaphanous Body in Joyce's Ulysses Indolesco Ergo Sum: Language, Compulsion, and Beckett's Existential Pains Abling Self and Other: Self-Sufficiency and Gender in George Egerton Unhoused Capacities: Elizabeth Bowen's Colonial Agency Conclusion: COVID-19 and the Plagues of Absence Bibliography
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The University of Michigan Press Bound Together The Secularization of Turkeys
Book SynopsisTakes a new look at twentieth-century Turkey, asking whether its current condition was inevitable; what it will take for Turkish women and men to regain their lost freedoms; and what the Turkish case means for the prospects of freedom and democracy elsewhere.Table of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. The Cases: Poetic and Novelistic Secularization in Comparison Chapter 2. From Depth to Inclusiveness: The Westphalia Moment Chapter 3. From Inclusiveness to Autonomy: The State Moment Chapter 4. From Autonomy to Interaction: The Moment of Contact Conclusion: The Hour of Civic Engagement Afterword: The Promise of Inclusive Secularization in the Age of Erdogan Appendix 1. Chronology Appendix 2. Glossary of Writers, Movements, and Publications Appendix 3. Methodological Note Bibliography
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University of California Press Person and Myth
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University of California Press Maiden Voyage
Book SynopsisAfter centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan's immediate fishing shores, Japanese shogunal authorities in 1862 made the unprecedented decision to launch an official delegation to China by sea. This title deals with this topic.Trade Review"Fogel's masterful scholarship provides insight into the historian's craft as he tracks evidence, openly interrogates documents, and asks questions that may not be directly answerable but can be puzzled out." -- Catherine L. Phipps Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review "Thoroughly researched and engagingly written." -- Matthew D. Johnson H-Net "This informative and incredibly well researched book is a pleasure to read." -- Robert Hellyer American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Situating 1862 in History and Shanghai in 1862 1. The Armistice, Shanghai, and the Facilitator 2. Japanese Plans and the Scene in Nagasaki 3. Getting to Nagasaki, Loading Cargo, and the Voyage to Shanghai 4. Coming to Terms with the City of Shanghai and Its Inhabitants 5. Westerners in Shanghai: The Chinese Malaise 6. Opium, Christianity, and the Taipings 7. Dealings with the Chinese Authorities 8. Preparing for the Trip Home 9. Subsequent Missions to China in the Late Edo Period 10. The Senzaimaru in Fiction and Film Conclusion: The Senzaimaru in History Appendix: Japanese and Chinese Texts Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Evolution of a Movement
Book SynopsisDespite living and working in California, one of the county's most environmentally progressive states, environmental justice activists have spent decades fighting for clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and safe, healthy communities. Evolution of a Movement tells their storyfrom the often-raucous protests of the 1980s and 1990s to activists' growing presence inside the halls of the state capitol in the 2000s and 2010s. Tracy E. Perkins traces how shifting political contexts combined with activists' own efforts to institutionalize their work within nonprofits and state structures. By revealing these struggles and transformations, Perkins offers a new lens for understanding environmental justice activism in California. Drawing on case studies and 125 interviews with activists from Sacramento to the California-Mexico border, Perkins explores the successes and failures of the environmental justice movement in California. She shows why some activists have moved away from the disrTrade Review"Evolution of a Movement is a well-researched, well-written treatment of the arc of California environmental justice…a fresh addition to the literature." * Mobilization *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Environmental Justice Activism Then and Now 1. Emergence of the Disruptive Environmental Justice Movement 2. The Institutionalization of the Environmental Justice Movement 3. Explaining the Changes in Environmental Justice Activism 4. Kettleman City: Case Study of Community Activism in Changing Times 5. California Climate Change Bill AB 32: Case Study of Policy Advocacy Conclusion: Dilemmas of Contemporary Environmental Justice Activism Appendix: Arguments for and against the Environmental Justice Lawsuit Brought against the California Air Resources Board Notes Bibliography Index
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Melbourne University Press Accidental Feminists
Book SynopsisWestern women over fifty are a revolutionary generation. They are the first in history to have been in paid work for most of their lives. The power and freedom of this financial independence is unprecedented. But this financial transformation is not equally enjoyed. Jane Caro investigates what predisposes some women to succeed and others to fall.
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Melbourne University Publishing The First World War the Universities and the
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