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Worldly Ethics
Democratic Politics and Care for the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
What is the spirit that animates collective action? What is the ethos of democracy? Worldly Ethics offers a powerful and original response to these questions, arguing that associative democratic politics, in which citizens join together and struggle to shape shared conditions, requires a world-centered...
The New Pluralism
William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
William Connolly, one of the best-known and most important political theorists writing today, is a principal architect of the “new pluralism.” In this volume, leading thinkers in contemporary political theory and international relations provide a comprehensive investigation of the new pluralism,...
Life and Times of Cultural Studies
The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
Moving world-systems analysis into the cultural realm, Richard E. Lee locates the cultural studies movement within a broad historical and geopolitical framework. He illuminates how order and conflict have been reflected and negotiated in the sphere of knowledge production by situating the emergence...
Arts of the Political
New Openings for the Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In the West, "the Left," understood as a loose conglomeration of interests centered around the goal of a fairer and more equal society, still struggles to make its voice heard and its influence felt, even amid an overwhelming global recession. In Arts of the Political: New Openings for the...
Cultural Studies 1983
A Theoretical History
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational lectures Hall delivered at the University of Illinois in 1983 introduced North American audiences to a thinker and discipline...
Foucault's Discipline
The Politics of Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 1997
In Foucault’s Discipline, John S. Ransom extracts a distinctive vision of the political world—and oppositional possibilities within it—from the welter of disparate topics and projects Michel Foucault pursued over his lifetime. Uniquely, Ransom presents Foucault as a political theorist in the...
State Work
Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2002
An innovative contribution to political theory, State Work examines the labor of government workers in North America. Arguing that this work needs to be theorized precisely because it is vital to the creation and persistence of the state, Stefano Harney draws on thinking from public administration...
Global Shadows
Africa in the Neoliberal World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
Both on the continent and off, “Africa” is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its problems, and its place in the world? And...
Clinical Labor
Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby take on that project, analyzing what they call "clinical labor," and asking what such an analysis...
Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity
Race and Philanthropy in Post–Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
“Diversity” has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout...
War on War
Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist Internationalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1989
The outbreak of World War I precipitated a schism in the international socialist movement that endures today. Heeding calls for "rational defense," the leading European socialist democratic parties abandoned their vision of peace and internationalism as an integral part of the struggle for...
Black, Jewish, and Interracial
It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1997
How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s Black, Jewish, and Interracial. Motivated by her own experience as the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father,...
by William E. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
Over the past two decades, the renowned political theorist William E. Connolly has developed a powerful theory of pluralism as the basis of a territorial politics. In this concise volume, Connolly launches a new defense of pluralism, contending that it has a renewed relevance in light of pressing...
My Life with Things
The Consumer Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin centers the book on diary entries that focus on everyday items—kitchen cabinet knobs, shoes, a piano—and...