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Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics - Hardcover

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by John Schwarzmantel (Editor), Helen Beetham (Editor)Academics and activists debate current problems of democratic politics and seek ways to renew the ideals of democracy in a climate of disillusionment and cynicism. Taking their inspiration from the work of David Beetham, an eminent scholar of democracy in theory and practice, they analyse features of democratic crisis today, from the rise of authoritarianism to the decline of trust in parliaments. They also introduce Beetham's work to a co...

The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony - Hardcover

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by Nasser Abourahme (Author)In The Time beneath the Concrete, Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Taking as his primary object Palestinian refugee camps, created in the fallout of the eliminatory violence of Israel's founding, Abourahme shows how these camps become the primary place where settler colonial attempts to dominate space and time encounter Indigenous refusal. Seen from the camps, Israel becomes a se...

Environmentalism After Humanism - Hardcover

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by Stefanie Fishel (Editor), Andrew M. Rose (Editor)This book explores the ways in which one might come to recognize and better theorize the political actor, and the political 'act, ' or 'event, ' in a post-anthropocentric context. The challenge to contemporary ideas of citizenship, activism, and the state stems not only from the realization that the natural world is inseparable from the social, but that both are the product of hybridized human and nonhuman agencies. As a result, one must be ...

Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism inside American Grassroots Political Organizing - Hardcover

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by Michael Rosino (Author)In uncertain times, confronting pressing problems such as racial oppression and the environmental crisis requires everyday people to come together and wield political power for the greater good. Yet, as Michael Rosino shows, progressive political organizations in the United States have frequently failed to achieve social change. Why? Rosino posits that it is because of the unwillingness of white progressives at the grassroots level to share power with progressives of...

Maroon Claims to Sovereignty in Jamaican Territory - Hardcover

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by Stephen Vasciannie (Author)This book is concerned with the Maroons of Accompong Town in Jamaica. Especially within the last five years, these Maroons, who constitute in some measure a distinct cultural group living in the defined area of Accompong Town, have presented reinvigorated claims that they comprise, in law and in fact, an independent state within Jamaica. Under the guidance of their energetic leader, Chief Richard Currie, they have claimed all the rights and duties of a sovereign ...

Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution - Hardcover

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by Amanda Hollis-Brusky (Author)There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into the conservative legal establishment, and membership is all but required for any conservative lawyer who hopes to enter politics or the judiciary. It claims 40,000 members, including four Supreme Court Justices, ...

New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question - Paperback

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by Neil Brenner (Author)The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. In New Urban Spaces, Neil Brenner argues that understanding these mutations of urban life requires not only concrete research, but new theories of urbanization. To this end, Brenner proposes an approach that breaks with inherited conceptions of the urban as a bounded settlement unit-the ...

Fixing Gender: The Paradoxical Politics of Training Peacekeepers - Hardcover

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by Aiko Holvikivi (Author)The practice of "gender training" has gained widespread popularity among numerous professions in the last few decades. Designed to address a range of problems--from corporate advancement, to sexual assault, to economic development--gender training is reliably presented as a solution to gendered disparities. Gender training has even become a requirement for soldiers and police officers deploying overseas as peacekeepers. But what happens when the concept of gender, th...

Elite Networks: The Political Economy of Inequality - Paperback

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by Vuk Vukovic (Author)Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power. Elite networks are informal social networks between politicians in power and top executives of politically connected firms where personal ties and long-term interactions build trust and loyalty between involved actors. Both groups draw benefits from these interactions; politicians stay in power, and corporate executives extract rents for their firms....

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by Sri Chinmoy (Author)Poetry V offers, in one volume, nineteen Poetry titles previously published in early 70s: God then, God now My Flute The silence of death Europe Blossoms Eternity's silence-heart The goal is won Giving and becoming God's Vision-Promise Immortality's dance Light-delight-journeys My California Redwoods My Canadian fruits The prayer of the sky Beauty-Drops Yesterday I was a crying dream Dreams that fly God-Compassion and God-Justice I need only God When I left God in He...

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by Rosa Luxemburg (Author)Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accumulation of Capital - a book which remains one of the masterpieces of socialist literature. Taking ...

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China - Paperback

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by Ezra F. Vogel (Author)Winner of the Lionel Gelber PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Washington Post Book of the Year A Bloomberg News Book of the Year An Esquire China Book of the Year A Gates Notes Top Read of the Year Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asia...

Revolution Until Victory!: A Marxist Analysis of the Arab Revolution - Paperback

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by Alan Woods (Author), Jorge Martín (Author)The Arab Revolution represents a turning point in world history. The stormy events in the Arab world have inspired workers and youth everywhere. This book contains a selection of the main articles on the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt published on Marxist.com and socialist.net during the early months of 2011. It also contains key material on the explosive events in the rest of the Arab world.These articles provide a blow-by-blow account of these ...

Afrikaner Identity: From Anticolonial Struggle Through Hegemonic Nationalism to Disempowered Minority - Hardcover

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by Eric Louw (Author)Afrikaners have long been portrayed as the villains of South Africa's apartheid state. Because they were such intensely vilified pariahs, many Americans and Europeans remain intrigued by Afrikaners as a vestige of white nationalism living in Africa who nevertheless peacefully transferred political power to South Africa's black majority. Afrikaner Identity tells the longer story of the Afrikaners, starting with the emergence of an accidental Dutch colony at Cape Town in th...

A New Generation Draws the Line: Humanitarian Intervention and the

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by Noam Chomsky (Author)In this work, Chomsky explores the West's uses and abuses of the principle of "human intervention." An updated foreword by Jean Bricmont explores the ongoing crises of humanitarian intervention in Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine, Syria, and Ukraine and reaffirms Chomsky's excoriating critiques of Western foreign policy. Chomsky dissects the meaning and uses of humanitarian intervention grounded in the so-called "right to protect" (R2P). In doing so, Chomsky demonstrates ...

The Legal and Political Geography of Pluralism: Supporting Diverse Public and Private Spaces in Contemporary Cities - Hardcover

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by Francesco Chiodelli (Author), Stefano Moroni (Author)Is it legitimate to prohibit political activities in a shopping centre, or the wearing of the full Islamic veil in a public space? This book addresses such questions of pluralism in a time of increasing ethnic, religious and cultural diversity in the public and private spaces of our cities. Analysing different types of regulation -- property rights, municipal ordinances and urban planning -- the authors reflect on the kinds of rules pub...

DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education - Paperback

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by Stanley K. Ridgley (Author)DEI Exposed puts the spotlight on a Big Con: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.DEI gurus siphoned funds for education into social engineering programs. They suckered and swindled some of the smartest people in the U.S., cost universities dearly in terms of funds and reputation, and ruined the livelihoods of countless faculty members.DEI has fueled antisemitism on college campuses and, ironically, robbed many students of fair treatment and freedom of speech-two thi...

Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East - Paperback

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by Margaret Elizabeth Peacock (Author)On June 8, 1967, Egypt's most famous radio broadcaster, Ahmed Said, reported that Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces had defeated the Israeli army in the Sinai, had hobbled their British and US allies, and were liberating Palestine. It was a lie. For the rest of his life, populations in the Middle East vilified Said for his duplicity. However, the truth was that, by 1967, all the world's major broadcasters to the Middle East were dissimulating on the...

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future - Paperback

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by Ian Johnson (Author)Author BiographyIan Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who has spent twenty years in China writing for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, as well as serving for five years on the editorial board of The Journal of Asian Studies. He is the author of three other books that focus on the intersection of politics and civil society, including The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao, and Wild Grass: Three Stories of C...

Excuse Me While I Skip a Beat: Working to Reinvent My Life and Leadership as a White Guy - Paperback

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by Robert Principe (Author)We the people are in crisis. This is what the nation's headlines clearly tell us. Growing economic inequality is crippling more Americans, and the divide that defines us is decaying our public will. Where we have landed is unacceptable.But there are solutions, and Robert Principe knows that the solutions to America's problems must see White men, including himself, get off the sidelines and be at the center of the work for greater equity that will strengthen health a...

The Pluralistic Frameworks of Ibn Rushd and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im - Paperback

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by Ayesha Omar (Author) Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 20, 2025

Black Freedom Fighters in Steel - Paperback

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by Ruth Needleman (Author)Thousands of African Americans poured into northwest Indiana in the 1920s dreaming of decent-paying jobs and a life without Klansmen, chain gangs, and cotton. Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism by Ruth Needleman adds a new dimension to the literature on race and labor. It tells the story of five men born in the South who migrated north for a chance to work the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs in the steel mills. Individually they fo...

Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism inside American Grassroots Political Organizing - Paperback

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The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire - Paperback

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by George Steinmetz (Author)A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empire In this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French sociology in the context of the French empire after World War II. Connecting the rise of all the social sciences with efforts by France and other imperial powers to consolidate control over their crisis-ridden colonies,...

The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony - Paperback

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Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class - Paperback

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by Max Fraser (Author)"The best book to explain the world J. D. Vance came from is Max Fraser's Hillbilly Highway."--Jessica Wilkerson, author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "hillbilly highway" was ...

Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond - Paperback

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by Edward Goldring (Author), Peter Ward (Author) Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 27, 2025

The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History - Hardcover

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by Bryan Jones (Author)A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines. The Southern Fault Line explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of plantation owners and industrialists on the one hand, and the more democratic mindset of the mountain-dwelling small farmers on the other. These two mindsets were in continual tension from the 1800s to the 19...

UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record - Paperback

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by Leslie Kean (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Impeccably researched, this riveting journalistic investigation separates fact from fiction, and documents the existence of--and government reactions to--actual UFOs. "A treasure trove of insightful and eye-opening information."--Michio Kaku, PH.D., bestselling author of Physics of the Future Leslie Kean, a veteran investigative reporter who has spent the past ten years studying the still-unexplained UFO phenomenon, reviewed hundreds of gove...

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa - Paperback

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by Susan Williams (Author)A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, who had just won Ghana's independence, his determined call for Pan-Africanism was heeded by young, idealistic leaders across t...

Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics - Paperback

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by Terry Golway (Author)History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalized immigrants. As thousands sought refuge from Ireland's potato famine, the very question of who would be included under the protection of American democracy wa...

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by Timothy Snyder (Author)A brilliant exploration of freedom--what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival--by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny "Much like life itself, freedom needs to be defined and redefined. On Freedom offers fresh insight into essential aspects of human existence--the values and obligations inherent in every individual's life."--Ai Weiwei Timothy Snyder has been called "the leading...