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by Mike Dennis, Norman LaPorte
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and...
A Policy Travelogue
Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Different actors, including not only policy élites but also providers and recipients, engage with it in light...
Incarceration and Regime Change
European Prisons during and after the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Political instability is nearly always accompanied by fuller prisons, and this was particularly true during the “long” Second World War, when military mobilization, social disorder, wrenching political changes, and shifting national boundaries swelled the ranks of the imprisoned and broadened...
Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy
Action Research in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re-create public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with Action Research-based organizational change...
The Allure of Capitalism
An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The “managerial revolution,” or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions. Studying “transnational” or “global” corporate management...
by Harry Blatterer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Adulthood is taken for granted. It connotes the end of childhood, the resolution to the “storm and stress” period of adolescence. This conception is strongly entrenched in the sociology of youth and the sociology of the life course as well as in the policy arena. At the same time, adulthood itself...
by Christiane Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Focusing on England, this study reconstructs the centuries-long process of commercialization that gave birth to the modern market society. It shows how certain types of markets (e.g. those for real estate, labor, capital, and culture) came into being, and how the social relations mediated by markets...
The State We're In
Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores the...
Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers
The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling. Opposition to commercial whaling has inspired many of the organization’s most dramatic and high-profile “direct actions”—as well as some of its most notable failures. This...
The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence
Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Ju/’hoan San, or Ju/’hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology. This is the story of how this group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Since the emergence of the dissident “parallel polis” in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a “new superpower,” influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society;...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into secular and religious social groupings, giving rise to conflicts between the state and political Islam. By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey's economy and its relationship to Islamism,...
Straying from the Straight Path
How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious...
Identity Matters
Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders. As one result of their year of intense...