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Beyond Habermas
Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
During the 1960s the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas introduced the notion of a “bourgeois public sphere” in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that originated with the cultural institutions of the early eighteenth-century; since then the “public sphere”...
What Is History For?
Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice. Arthur Alfaix Assis interprets Droysen’s...
Deleuzian Intersections
Science, Technology, Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous assemblages, moving across distinctions such as the...
Holistic Anthropology
Emergence and Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Given the broad reach of anthropology as the science of humankind, there are times when the subject fragments into specialisms and times when there is rapprochement. Rather than just seeing them as reactions to each other, it is perhaps better to say that both tendencies co-exist and that it is very...
Reflecting on Reflexivity
The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the...
The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation
From Territorial Subject to American Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Through the voices and perspectives of the members of an extended Hawaiian family, or `ohana, this book tells the story of North American imperialism in Hawai`i from the Great Depression to the new millennium. The family members offer their versions of being “Native Hawaiian” in an American state,...
Crown, Church and Constitution
Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to the radical reform politics that powerfully unsettled the social order in the century’s first decades. Comparatively neglected have been the impetuous patriotism, royalism, and xenophobic anti-Catholicism that countless men...
Fear in Bongoland
Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas.
This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story...
Stories Make the World
Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make...
by Vassos Argyrou
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such? What if there is only an economy where every giving is also a taking, and every taking is also a giving? This book extends the question of economies by making a case for an “economy of thought”...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
With the enlargement of the European Union, the accession countries are coming under pressure to develop and meet EU standards for environmental protection and sustainable development. In this ongoing process, global economic liberalization, regulatory policy, conservation, and lifestyle issues are...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and “ethical” concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes towards...
Between Empire and Continent
British Foreign Policy before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of European states. Historians have regularly interpreted these efforts as a reaction to the aggressive foreign policy of the German Empire. However, as Between...
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia
Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In order to move global society towards a sustainable “ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the...