Stanford University: 1318 books
Discreet Power
How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the primary agenda-setting organizations of our day, they draw on interviews and participant observation to examine how the WEF wields its influence. They situate...
Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership
An Examination of Grassroots Leaders in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership contributes to the growing tradition of giving voice to grassroots leaders, focusing on the largely untapped potential of faculty and staff on college campuses. In an increasingly corporatized environment, grassroots leadership can provide a balance to the...
by Johan Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The spread of market-oriented reforms has been one of the major political and economic trends of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Governments have, to varying degrees, adopted policies that have led to deregulation: the liberalization of trade; the privatization of state entities;...
New Destination Dreaming
Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American debates over immigration policy—but the reality on the ground is proving different. Since the 1980s, new immigrants have increasingly...
For Love of the Father
A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of blind hatred, nor even for political gain, but to achieve an explosive merger with a transcendent awesome...
Normalizing Japan
Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
Normalizing Japan seeks to answer the question of what future direction Japan's military policies are likely to take, by considering how policy has evolved since World War II, and what factors shaped this evolution. It argues that Japanese security policy has not changed as much in recent years as...
China’s Christian Colleges
Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
China's Christian Colleges explores the cross-cultural dynamics that existed on the campuses of the Protestant Christian colleges in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on two-way cultural influences rather than on missionary efforts or Christianization, these campuses,...
An Industrious Mind
The Worlds of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This is the first biography of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, a member of England's Long Parliament, Puritan, historian and antiquarian who lived from 1602–1650. D'Ewes took the Puritan side against the supporters of King Charles I in the English Civil War, and his extensive journal of the Long Parliament,...
The Moral Power of Money
Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate...
In the Wake of Neoliberalism
Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Understanding the various meanings given to human and citizenship rights in Argentina is an important task, particularly so given the nation's prominence in global discussions. An "exporter" of tactics, ideas, and experts, Argentina has become a site of innovation in the field of human rights....
by Marianne Janack
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the course of the twentieth century, this problem...
Breaking Through the Noise
Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Modern presidents engage in public leadership through national television addresses, routine speechmaking, and by speaking to local audiences. With these strategies, presidents tend to influence the media's agenda. In fact, presidential leadership of the news media provides an important avenue for...
Gendered Trajectories
Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Gendered Trajectories explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century. Japan has undergone much less improvement in women's economic status than Taiwan,...
Bankrupt
Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies. In response, international organizations insisted that legal reforms could help protect markets from financial breakdowns. Sitting at the nexus between the...