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by Ben Golder
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic...
Surrendering to Utopia
An Anthropology of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that have shaped human rights in the postwar period, this ambitious work opens up new opportunities for research,...
Spinoza Contra Phenomenology
French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in French philosophy, from...
Faith as an Option
Possible Futures for Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's...
Manipulating Globalization
The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The era of globalization saw China emerge as the world's manufacturing titan. However, the "made in China" model—with its reliance on cheap labor and thin profits—has begun to wane. Beginning in the 2000s, the Chinese state shifted from attracting foreign investment to promoting the...
Poisonous Pandas
Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts...
Politics Beyond the Capital
The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
A recent wave of decentralization in Latin America has increased the prominence of politicians at the subnational level. Politics Beyond the Capital is the first book to place this trend in comparative historical perspective, examining past episodes of decentralization alongside contemporary ones...
The Emotional Logic of Capitalism
What Progressives Have Missed
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment...
Myth of the Social Volcano
Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a "social volcano" of protest activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule? Many inside and outside of China have speculated, without evidence, that the answer is yes. In 2004, Harvard sociologist...
Germans into Jews
Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Germans into Jews turns to an often overlooked and misunderstood period of German and Jewish history—the years between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But, Sharon Gillerman demonstrates that Weimar Jews sought to...
The Plunder
The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
In the spring of 1898, thousands of peasants and townspeople in western Galicia rioted against their Jewish neighbors. Attacks took place in more than 400 communities in this northeastern province of the Habsburg Monarchy, in present-day Poland and Ukraine. Jewish-owned homes and businesses were ransacked...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan takes a creative and comparative view of the new challenges and dynamics confronting these maturing democracies. Numerous works deal with political change in the two societies individually, but few adopt a comparative approach—and most...
Varieties of Feminism
German Gender Politics in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Varieties of Feminism investigates the development of German feminism by contrasting it with women's movements that arise in countries, like the United States, committed to liberalism. With both conservative Christian and social democratic principles framing the feminist discourses and movement goals,...
Electrifying India
Regional Political Economies of Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how early nationalists and planners conceptualized Indian development, and huge sums were spent on the project from then until...