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  • 1
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031490743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 133 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Economics. ; Identity politics. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Classical Liberalism against Populism -- Chapter 2: Populism - defining characteristics -- Chapter 3: A Threat to Liberty, Free Markets, and the Open Society -- Chapter 4: Explaining Populism -- Chapter 5: The Populist Divisive, Activist Ideas -- Chapter 6: The Classical Liberal Ideas, Predicaments, and Potentials -- Chapter 7: Expose the Populist Strategies and Consequences -- Chapter 8: Defend and Develop the Liberal Institutions -- Chapter 9: Advance a Liberal Politics of Identity -- Chapter 10: Develop Liberal Statecraft -- Chapter 11: A Classical Liberal Revival.
    Abstract: “One cannot fight the collectivistic identity politics of populism with cost-benefit studies and policy analysis alone. As Nils Karlson argues in his riveting, essential book, the arts, and the humanities, “emotions. . . ethos . . . narratives,” are necessary to save us from 1984 in 2024.” ---Deirdre McCloskey, Professor emerita of Economics, History, English, And Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA "Classical liberalism is better than populism, flat out. Nils Karlson will tell you why, both for the US and Sweden, and for the broader world." ---Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, USA This open access book by Nils Karlson explores the strategies used by left- and right-wing populists to make populism intelligible, recognizable, and contestable. It presents a synthesized explanatory model for how populists promote autocratization through the deliberate polarization of society. It traces the ideational roots of the core populist ideas and shows that these ideas form a collectivistic identity politics. Karlson argues that to fight back requires the revival of liberalism itself by defending and developing the liberal institutions, the liberal spirit, liberal narratives, and liberal statecraft. The book also presents and discusses an extensive list of counterstrategies against populism. Written within the tradition of political theory and institutional economics, this book uses a wide variety of sources, including results and analyses from social psychology, ethics, law, and history. Nils Karlson is the founder and former CEO of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. .
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    ISBN: 9783031356728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 138 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series Statement: Palgrave studies in European political sociology
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political sociology. ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography ; Staat ; Nationalstaat ; Territorium ; Geografischer Raum ; Demokratie
    Abstract: Borders, democratic legitimacy, multiscale statehood, governance : the covid crisis has shaken things up and emphasized both the contradictions and the central salience of territories. In this sharp volume Oscar Mazzoleni critically reviews the main debates about territories that have unfold over the last two decades, in particular in geography and political sociology. He makes a powerful insight for a critical territorial approach aiming to analyze democratic politics. Patrick Le Galès, CNRS research professor at Sciences Po, Paris, France Mazzoleni has contributed a brief but encompassing study of the concept of territory in social sciences. This well-written piece analyzes the concept of territory as multidimensional and interdisciplinary. His is a rigorous attempt to offer a systematic framework to make territorial politics part of the contemporary research agenda. In developing a territorial approach, he adds to the field by addressing essential gaps in the literature. Margarita Gomez-Reino Cachafeiro, full professor at the UNED University, Madrid, Spain The book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the uses of the concept of territory in the study of democratic politics. The author tests the limits of a literature which avoid territorial dimensions, and reasserts the relevance of the concepts of territory and territorial space in the understanding of contemporary politics. With a political sociological perspective, but engaging in an interdisciplinary dialogue, the book draws a new conceptual framework focusing on both traditional and innovative topics: state-building and the transformation of nation-states, the changes in democratic citizenship, the relevance of territory for voting behaviour, the territorial dimensions of populism and the experience of the pandemic, taken as a global territorial crisis. Oscar Mazzoleni is Director of the Research Observatory for Regional politics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
    Note: Open Access , Literaturverzeichnisse , Why and how territory , Strength and limits of unterritorial approaches , Towards a territory-oriented approach , Beyond the territorial state? , Changing democratic citizenship , Territorial voting , Territorial populism , A global territorial crisis , Thinking democratic politics with territory
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    ISBN: 9783031413636
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 305 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Governing police stops across Europe
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Public administration. ; Human rights. ; Critical criminology. ; Crime ; Political sociology. ; Arrêt et fouille par palpation - Europe ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Polizei ; Kontrolle
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Police Stops: a comparative perspective on governance -- Chapter 2: Stop in the name of the law: the legal regulation of police stops in Europe -- Chapter 3: Internal Governance of police stops: an unresolvable challenge? -- Chapter 4: External accountability: the limited influence of oversight bodies on the governance of police stops -- Chapter 5: Civil oversight practices in Europe: exploring the impact of civil movement against police stops -- Chapter 6: Legal remedies for victims of unlawful police stops: European and domestic contexts -- Chapter 7: The role of data in enhancing the governance of Police Stops in Europe -- Chapter 8: The possibilities and pitfalls of the use of accountability technologies in the governance of police stops -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: the three levels of governance of police stops.
    Abstract: "Governing Police Stops Across Europe should be essential reading for all those involved in police governance, scrutiny, and practice.” --Gill Imery, former Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary Scotland This book takes a critical and comparative approach to the analysis of the governance of police stops across Europe. It draws on an EU COST Action research network on Police Stops which engaged academics and practitioners from 29 countries to better understand the practice of police stops. It begins by examining how police stops are defined and the various legal rules and levels of accountability afforded. The chapters are arranged by theme to focus on a core aspect of the governance of police stops. These include: legal frameworks and police discretion; internal governance; external accountability and civilian oversight; possibilities for legal recourse; and the different roles of data and technology. Each compares the distinct approaches evident across Europe, often employing case studies. The book adopts a critical approach, acknowledging governance as contested and involving diverse (state, non-state and supranational) actors. It considers implications for policing in a rapidly changing environment globally. Elizabeth Aston is Professor of Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, and the Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research. Sofie De Kimpe is full time Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium and was Chair of the EU COST Action on Police Stops. János Fazekas is Associate Professor at ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary. He was co-leader of the Governance Working Group of the EU COST Action on Police Stops. Genevieve Lennon is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Strathclyde, UK. She was co-leader of the Governance Working Group of the EU COST Action Police Stops. Mike Rowe is Lecturer in Public Sector Management at the University of Liverpool, UK, and was Vice Chair of the EU COST Action on Police Stops.
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    ISBN: 9783031588815
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 220 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political sociology. ; Communication in politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Portugal And The Far-Right -- Chapter 2: From Imperial Nationalism In The Portuguese Estado Novo To The Organization Causa Identitária: Right-Wing Groupuscules In Portugal And Their Ideological Lines -- Chapter 3: Surveillance Against Ethnic Enclaves And Dissemination Of The Publisher Contra Corrente: The Organization Associação Cívica Portugueses Primeiro Por Estado E Identidade (Portuguese 1) -- Chapter 4: Escudo Identitário: The Attempt To Create The Equivalent Of Casapound Italia In Portugal -- Chapter 5: From Skinhead Music Concerts “Oi!” To Youtube: The Trajectory Of The Organization Nova Ordem Social And Its Leader Mário Machado -- Chapter 6: Lusotropicalism And Cosmopolis: The Imperial Nationalism Of The Group Nova Portugalidade -- Chapter 7: Devolution Around Biogenetic Identity: The Cyber-Activism Of The Organization O Bom Europeu -- Chapter 8: Ethnonationalist And Imperial Nationalist News: Invictus Portucale And Notícias Viriato -- Chapter 9: From Siberia To Timor: Portugal Between Two Bloc Projects.
    Abstract: This book analyzes two types of nationalisms that are represented by the Portuguese groupuscular right, that is, the extra-party right. One faction is guided by ethnonationalism and nativism, looking at Portugal through an ethnically European prism. Small groups fight for a white Portugal linked to an imagined white world, rooted in ideas such as race and biology, following models from the US. The other faction looks for a future in a non-European confederation and wants Portuguese citizenship for non-European groups originating from the former colonies, while maintaining ties with the Portuguese extreme right, notably, the one that comes from the Salazar right-wing dictatorship (Estado Novo, 1926-1974). This faction suggests addressing questions of immigration by accepting immigration of non-European people from former imperial space and by initiating a confederation of countries, in which Portugal is the only state with a white majority. Guimarães analyzes the means of communication of these two factions, the language they use to articulate their viewpoints, and the worldviews of various groups in Portugal. He argues that the far right in Portugal is a space filled with radical styles of nationalism. Gabriel Fernandes Rocha Guimarães is Researcher at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.
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  • 5
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    ISBN: 9783031497957
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 293 p. 26 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
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    Keywords: Social policy. ; Social choice. ; Welfare economics. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Methods -- Chapter 3. Framework -- Chapter 4. Institutions -- Chapter 5. Employment -- Chapter 6. Protection -- Chapter 7. Incorporation -- Chapter 8. Clusters -- Chapter 9. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This open access book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, an analytical framework, and core institutions. The book advocates a causal inference approach to the study of the institutions that have dominated social protection in the region: occupational insurance, individual retirement savings, and social assistance. The middle chapters study social protection’s main stratification effects, focussing on stratification effects on employment, protection, and worker incorporation. The later chapters then assess social protection outcomes and identify country groupings including their evolution over time. The book, and its approach and findings, contributes to the advancement of a theory of social protection amongst late industrialisers. Armando Barrientos is Professor Emeritus of Poverty and Social Justice at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. He was Research Director at the World Poverty Institute. .
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    ISBN: 9783031529092
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 115 p. 22 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Political sociology. ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Law.
    Abstract: Introduction: The judiciary from the inside -- Chapter 1: Judicial politics in Mexico. Understanding the legal culture of judges -- Chapter 2: Studying judicial elites. A Methodological approach -- Chapter 3: Who inhabits the judiciary? Social origins and professional trajectories of the judicial elite -- Chapter 4: The internal dynamics of the judiciary: recruitment and judicial career -- Chapter 5: Judges' legal culture in Mexico -- Conclusion: Is the judiciary a traditionalist, nepotistic, and formalist institution?. .
    Abstract: Her research makes an important methodological contribution to exploring legal culture and to comparative, ideational studies of judicial behavior. --Rachel Sieder, CIESAS, Mexico City. This rich sociolegal analysis is a welcome addition to the judicial and legal scholarship in Mexico and beyond. --Julio Ríos Figueroa, ITAM. This book explores the careers, professional trajectories and legal cultures of judges in the federal judiciary in Mexico. So far, there has been limited research on internal factors contributing to the understanding of judicial power dynamics in Mexico and other Latin American countries at large; this Work fills an important gap in the literature through its empirical investigation of internal legal cultures and judicial norms, offering new data, measurement strategies,and insights into the interactions between law, politics, norms, legal culture(s), as well as judicial behavior. Utilising an original survey, the chapters analyse judicial conceptualizations of role norms, legal cultures, proclivities for judicial activism, and judicial behavior. In so doing, this book contributes to understanding of underlying key internal factors of judicial activism or restraint, in turn moving forward the debate that seeks to explain judicial behavior reliant on internal and ideational perspectives. Complementing limited but existing studies of judicial politics in Mexico through its analysis of judges beyond those that sit at the Supreme Court, this book will be of particular interest to Latin-American judicial politics scholars due to its focus on the judicial power from internal perspectives as well as sub-national judges, filling a void in the literature vis-à-vis the study of courts in Latin America. This Work was originally written in Spanish, and the translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content. Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar is Professor of political science in the Department of Sociopolitical and Legal Studies at ITESO, the Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florence, Italy. She teaches courses of political science, judicial politics and theories of democracy in undergraduate and graduate programs at ITESO and the University of Guadalajara. Her research interests include comparative judicial politics and democratization processes. Professor Aguiar has edited books and published several articles in peer review journals about democracy, courts, and justice-sector institutions. She has been distinguished as a member of the National Researchers System in Mexico.
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    ISBN: 9783031537738
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 226 p. 9 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Europe in a Global Context
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    DDC: 304.8
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Social structure. ; Equality. ; Globalization. ; Political sociology. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1: Introduction: state capacity, capacity to aspire, & layered resilience during a pandemic -- 2: Bangladeshis in London and Tower Hamlets: Community activism and the local state -- 3: Turkish Migration in Stuttgart: Potential and limits of ‘integrationism’ -- 4: Peruvians in Milan: Subsidiarity the Other Way Round -- 5: Migrant mediators as promoters of social cohesion during the pandemic: An analysis of the mutual learning process -- 6: Resisting, Reacting and Reinventing: Exploring the Role of Minority Religious Solidarities in Milan and London during the Pandemic -- 7: The importance of urban culture as a middle ground between state and ethnic minorities in negotiating (im)mobilities: The London context -- 8: Good (local) Governance and State Capacity: Continuity and difference in times of pandemic and beyond -- 9: Conclusion: Towards a sociological understanding of layered resilience. .
    Abstract: This book analyses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on three ethnic minorities in three European cities: Bangladeshi in London, Turks in Stuttgart and Peruvians in Milan. Considerable debate has emerged during the pandemic concerning its impact on minorities, and although considerable quantitative data has been generated by epidemiologists, qualitative studies also have great relevance, socially and culturally as well as institutionally. While in normal circumstances the position of migrant communities is associated with unequal access to scarce resources such as wealth, power and social prestige, the coronavirus pandemic shifted the focus to more specific variables: living in segmented or overcrowded conditions, working in jobs with higher risk exposure, difficulties with online schooling, and lack of access to health care and information. The book will therefore be of interest to researchers and students of sociology, anthropology, global studies, migration and urban studies. .
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  • 8
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    ISBN: 9783031401473
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 106 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    DDC: 304.82
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration ; Culture. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Political sociology. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Pandemic And Politics – The Two ‘P’s In A Pod -- 3. Refuge From The Bovine -- 4. Gendering The Immigrants -- 5. In Pursuit Of Freedom: Queer Girl Moves To Berlin! -- 6. Immigrants As Homemakerspandemic, Time And Certitude -- 7. Biocitizenship Of Immigrants -- 8. Imagining Tomorrow.
    Abstract: By focusing on the question “Why leave?” Amrita Datta tells touching human stories as part of an important global trend: the reconfiguring mobility amidst rapid political changes and an unprecedented pandemic. Nuanced and powerful, the book shows that migration is never about jobs or status only, it is also about everyday dignity and liveability, for instance the ability of making friends and moving around in a city safely, which are in turn conditioned by large political forces. A very timely and significant contribution to migration studies and global anthropology. -------- Biao Xiang, Director, Anthropology of Economic Experimentation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany This book tells the stories of Indian immigrants in Germany, including Blue Card holders and students categorized as highly skilled migrants, as well as others choosing shadow migration pathways in order to leave the country. It investigates their motivations for leaving India and choosing Germany as an immigration destination. Grappling with the stories of tech workers fleeing the pandemic, activists fleeing the witch hunting of the government, women escaping gender(ed) violence and queer people seeking freedom, this book uses reflexivity as an analytical tool. Investigation of their transcultural practices also reveals a general intent among Indians to create homes in Germany, despite several challenges to such efforts, including structural and everyday symbolic racism. Amrita Datta is a migration scholar currently based at the Department of Sociology, University of Siegen, Germany, as a Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Fellow. Earlier, she earned a doctoral degree in Sociology from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. .
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    ISBN: 9783031361678
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 279 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political sociology. ; Political science ; Law and the social sciences. ; Law ; Law
    Abstract: 1. Introduction Rob Hunter, Rafael Khachaturian, Eva Nanopoulos -- 2. State, Capital, Nature: State Theory for the Anthropocene Alyssa Battistoni -- 3. ‘Bursting Asunder the Integument’: Democracy, Digitalisation, and the State Dimitrios Kivotidis -- 4. Crisis, Social Reproduction, and the Capitalist State: Notes on an Uncertain Conjuncture Rafael Khachaturian -- 5. From Economic to Political Crisis: Trump and the Neoliberal State Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno -- 6. Soldiers and the State in Marx and Engels Jasmine Chorley-Schulz -- 7. To Embrace or Reject: Marxism and the ‘War-Emergency Paradigm’ Eva Nanopoulos -- 8. Socially Reproductive Workers, ‘Life Making’, and State Repression Kirstin Munro -- 9. Social Murder: Capitalism’s Systematic and State-Organised Killing Nate Holdren -- 10. Beyond Abstractionism: Notes on Conjunctural State Theory Michael A. McCarthy -- 11. The Marx Revival and State Theory: Towards a Negative-Dialectical Critical Social Theory of the State Chris O’Kane -- 12. The Capitalist State as Historically-Specific Social Form Rob Hunter.
    Abstract: “This collection from a younger generation of scholars brings forward not only the theoretical and analytical richness of the Marxist tradition but also its indispensability for any project of radical social transformation.” — Panagiotis Sotiris, Hellenic Open University, Greece and author of A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser (2020) “From the Covid pandemic to global warming to vulnerable supply chains, it has become commonplace to observe the ‘return of the state.’ This volume adds much-needed rigor to such discussions. There is no better moment to revisit and advance Marxist state theory.” —Thea Riofrancos, Associate Professor of Political Science, Providence College, USA “This volume contains a masterfully orchestrated set of arguments and insights for a materialist theory of the state and will undoubtedly serve as a reference point for future debate.” — Marco Goldoni, Senior Lecturer in Legal Theory, Glasgow University, UK This book builds on the recent revival of interest in Marx and Marxism, calling for a renewal and refinement of Marxist state theory. It aims to encourage new debates and critiques that build on—but also update and extend—the rich tradition of Marxist analyses of the capitalist state, including the well-known debates of the 1970s. The chapters present a dynamic and diverse constellation of arguments and perspectives on a range of topics, from general re-appraisals of the capitalist state to investigations of contemporary challenges—including digitalisation, the ecological crisis, the coronavirus pandemic, social reproduction, and critical political economy. What they share is a commitment to an understanding of the specifically capitalist character of the modern state and its significance for any serious discussion of the causes of our current age of global catastrophe and the overcoming of capitalist social relations. Rob Hunter holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, USA. He is a member of the Legal Form editorial collective. Rafael Khachaturian is a Lecturer in Critical Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Eva Nanopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary, University of London UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031116940
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 283 p. 9 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Reform and Transition in the Mediterranean
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political sociology. ; Communication in politics. ; Political leadership. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Greek Parliamentary elites in transition (1989-2019) -- 2. Gender, representation and the politics of exclusion. Or, who represents, who is represented? -- 3. Politics and profession: continuities and discontinuities in the occupational composition of the Greek parliamentary elite -- 4. From Media to Politics: Journalists in the Greek Parliament -- 5. Young conservatives, media personalities or old-school elites? The many faces of New Democracy MPs across time -- 6. From Hegemony to Pasokification. Socialist MP’s in transition -- 7. Composition and Role of Parliamentary Elites as an Indicator of Party Transformation: The Case of SYRIZA -- 8. Mapping of the Extreme right MPs: From LAOS to Greek Solution -- 9. Candidates’ personal preference votes and changes in parliamentary representation -- 10. The emergence of “technocracy" in Greek ministerial elites -- 11. Make or Break? A Comparison of Parliamentary Representation in Cyprus and Greece in the Background of the Economic Crisis -- 12. Three generations of parliamentary elites. A proposed typology.
    Abstract: This edited volume contributes to a better understanding of parliamentary changes in times of political transition, and, specifically, the composition of the Greek Parliament before and after the debt crisis. It discusses the profiles of Greek MPs through the lens of continuity and renewal, starting with the first major political crisis after the Metapolitefsi in 1989 and ending with the last legislative elections of 2019. Greece attracted scholarly and international interest due to the transformations that the sovereign debt crisis provoked to its political and partisan system. It is one of the countries of the European periphery most severely hit during the great recession. However, no work so far has been devoted exclusively to the study of Greek parliamentary elites, their cultural and political characteristics, and the factors that shape their selection and election. The book is a multifaceted source of information for all those interested in understanding forms of political representation during normal times and times of crisis. Its distinctive advantage is that it offers an up to date and complete elite study in Greece comparable to similar European studies. Moreover, it is a useful tool for students, scholars and researchers interested in the study of political representation across Europe. Manina Kakepaki is a Principal Researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE)- Institute of Political Research, Greece. Fani Kountouri is Assistant Professor of Political Science-Political Communication at the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athina, Greece.
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    ISBN: 9783031168482
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 352 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Global Political Sociology
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Political sociology. ; Ideologie ; Populismus ; Internationale Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Innenpolitik ; Politischer Prozess ; Internationalisierung ; Wirkung ; Auswirkung ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Populism and International Relations -- Chapter 2: The Populist Challenge to International Relations: Concept-Stretching, Methodological Nationalism and the Omission of Popular Sovereignty -- Chapter 3: Theorizing the Relations between Populism and Foreign Policy: A Discursive, Poststructuralist Approach -- Chapter 4: Addressing Shortcomings in the Laclauian Discursive Approach to Populism: Ontology, Radical Contingency, Affect and the Role of Populist Leaders and Antagonism -- Chapter 5: Right-wing Populism and Foreign Policy in the United States, Germany and India -- Chapter 6: Left-wing Populism and Foreign Policy in the United States, Europe and Venezuela -- Chapter 7: International and Transnational Populism: Cross-border Collaboration and Identity Construction -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Re-Conceptualizing and De-centring Populism in International Relations.
    Abstract: Populism has lately experienced a meteoric rise to become one of the most widely used terms in academic and wider public discourses and a supposedly defining feature of both domestic and world politics. Situated at the intersection of International Relations (IR), Political Theory and Comparative Politics, this book makes a critical intervention into the burgeoning IR scholarship on populism and problematizes the often hyperbolic and sweeping usage of the term as a general descriptor for non-centrist politics of different persuasions. The book seeks to move into a different theoretical direction and broaden the empirical focus of existing IR research. Theoretically, it bridges the gap between theories of populism and IR by bringing the Laclauian, discursive approach and IR poststructuralism together in a theoretical framework. The proposed framework moves away from the search for the policy preferences and impact of populism, and instead conceptualizes foreign policy and world politics as potential sites for practicing populism, ranging from the articulation of societal grievances to the construction of populist identities such as ‘the people’. Empirically, the book takes IR scholarship beyond the predominant focus on the populist radical right and single-country and -region studies. Building on the discourse analysis of an original data set, it offers a comparative analysis of right-wing and left-wing populist discourses in different world regions as well as populist cross-border collaboration and identity construction. Thorsten Wojczewski is Lecturer in International Relations at Coventry University, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031265303
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 255 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political science. ; Political sociology. ; Social justice. ; Social structure. ; Equality. ; World politics. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The First Structural Experiment: Communist-era Homogenisation -- 3. Consequences of the Experiment: the Division between Society and the nomenklatura -- 4. The Second Experiment: the Differentiation of the Social Structure -- 5. Consequences of the Second Experiment: the ‘winners’ – ‘losers’ Division -- 6. The Formation of Social Divisions and the Theory of Practices of Repartition -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: The monograph examines the sources of Polish social divisions. It explains their emergence and discusses the mechanisms behind their evolution from 1945-2022. The findings corroborate the idea that divisions were formed irrespective of the current state of social hierarchy, or the accepted interpretation of justice, and that they existed both in totalitarian and democratic systems alike. The book distinguishes the category of divisions from the practices of repartition, and demonstrates that the repartitions discussed in a political discourse do not generate divisions, but constitute the politicization of the latter. Repartitions are understood as discursive, dichotomic juxtapositions that result from the existence of divisions and can be used as political tools. It has been demonstrated that they can also function as analytical categories used with a view to determining the state of social inequalities. The notions of divisions and repartitions discussed in this volume confirm the existence of the continuity of changes and describe the evolution of Polish society has a consequence. Piotr Borowiec is Head of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Politics at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. He is the editor-in-chief of the international journal Teoria Polityki and author and co-author of over 70 articles on the sociology of politics, political theory, and methodology, as well as seven monographs. .
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    ISBN: 9783031228957
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 263 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; World politics. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: The Post-Soviet Topography: Marxism as a ‘Field” -- Chapter 2: The Maoist Moment: Peasantry and the Agrarian Question -- Chapter 3: Racial Capitalism, Slavery and Patriarchy -- Chapter 4: The Late Marx, Transitions and ‘Modes of Production’ -- Chapter 5: Climate Crisis and the Question of the Commons -- Chapter 6: ‘Socialism’ is not the ‘After’ of Capitalism.
    Abstract: This book engages with the diverse traditions within non-Western Marxisms, as they emerge across the Global South, positioning itself against calls for a “pure” Marxism. The author views Marxism as a conceptual “field,” similar to electromagnetic or gravitational fields, where bodies and objects impact other bodies and objects without necessarily coming in contact with them. So too, in the “field” of Marxism, people behave in specific ways and deploy languages and concepts with their own specific inflections and accents. While rejecting the view of Marxism as an inherently European and fully-formed doctrine that is corrupted by contact with alien contexts, Nigam simultaneously acknowledges the residual force of certain elements of the theory and the gravitational pull that the authoritative figures continue to have on the evolution of the field in non-Western contexts. He argues that since a large part of Marxism’s earthly journey was undertaken in the Global South, it is that experience that needs to be rendered legible, by setting aside the conceptual lens of Western Marxism that repeatedly misreads such experience. Ultimately, the book invites a fruitful and challenging re-examination of a variety of phenomena arising from the contemporaneous co-existence of pre-capitalist and capitalist social relations that have been an inextricable part of the majority of the world—what the author terms “untimely encounters.” Aditya Nigam was formerly Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India.
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    ISBN: 9783031327032
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 229 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Political sociology. ; Europe ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Verteidigung ; Planung ; Änderung ; Außenpolitik ; Strategie ; Sicherheit ; Bedrohungsvorstellung ; Geopolitik ; Einflussgröße ; Internationale Politik ; Diskussion ; Innenpolitik ; Politische Willensbildung ; Tschechien
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Problematic Politics of ‘hybrid warfare’ -- 2. Liminal Insecurities: Crises, Geopolitics and the Logic of War -- 3. Formation: Emergence of the ‘hybrid warfare’ Assemblage in Czechia (2014–2016/17) -- 4. Politicisation, Institutionalisation, Internationalisation: The Czech ‘hybrid warfare’ Assemblage in 2017–2021 -- 5. Differentiation: Three Main Narratives of ‘hybrid warfare’ -- 6. Boundaries: Expertise, Authority and Contestation in the Czech ‘hybrid warfare’ Debate -- 7. Conclusion: Reclaiming Politics from the Logic of War.
    Abstract: This book offers a timely and trenchant addition to the vanguard of critical political thought in Central Europe. Reclaiming politics from the logic of war, the book provides a sobering cut into the political work of hybrid warfare discourse. With its theoretical sophistication and thick empirical embeddedness in the stories from the ‘in-between zone’ of Czechia, this is a must-read for untangling the lazy causality between the problems with Western democracies and Russian subversive actions. -Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen This is a first book-long analysis showing how the notion of ‘hybrid warfare’ was used to transform security policies and discourses in an EU/NATO country. Building on current debates in International Political Sociology, Critical Security Studies, and Critical Geopolitics, it provides a novel account of how crisis, geopolitics, uncertainty, and expertise are intertwined in the social construction of threats. Based on extensive and original empirical research of large textual archive and elite interviews in the Czech Republic and Brussels, the book shows how officials, bureaucrats, journalists, activists, and experts all participate in the reshaping of security in a new geopolitical environment. Zooming on the case of Czechia and its specific Central European context, it complements the predominantly Western-centric studies of insecurity with an account of how the liminal position on an East/West boundary influences security politics. As a first study of its kind and scope, it will be of interest to academics and students interested in Central European politics, practices and discourses of hybrid warfare, as well as critical approaches to security and geopolitics. Jakub Eberle is Research Director and Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. He works on IR theory, Czech and German foreign policy, and politics of Central Europe. He is the author of Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War (2019). Jan Daniel is Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. His research mostly draws on International Political Sociology and Critical Security and Peace Studies and focuses on politics of (in)security in Central Europe and the Middle East.
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    ISBN: 9783031418662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 198 p. 7 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Critical criminology. ; Political sociology. ; Human rights. ; Criminology. ; Public health. ; Economics. ; Social choice.
    Abstract: Introduction: The story so far -- 1 Freedom withdrawals and the trade-off for compliance -- 2 Harmalogical pharmacology and the Covid-19 vaccine -- 3 Technocratic feudalism and the new surveillance governance -- 4 Digital apartheids and the ‘Other’ -- 5 Asymptomatic freedom, resistance and the ‘anti-vaxxers’ -- 6 Heavy hands and iron fists against high social fevers -- 7 The new futures of exclusion.
    Abstract: "This book is a fundamental contribution to the academic literature on the Covid-19 pandemic, offering a much-needed critical counterbalancing to the orthodox view. But, even more importantly, it is a dramatic appeal: as much as we all just want to move on, we need to collectively confront the global trauma of 2020-2022, as difficult as it may be, or we will pay an even higher price down the road.” - Thomas Fazi, Journalist, and author of The Covid Consensus “A compelling critique of pandemic authoritarianism.” - Lee Jones, Professor of Political Economy and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London Based upon global data and following on from Lockdown: Social Harm in the COVID-19 Era, this book discusses the rise of surveillance capitalism and new forms of control and exclusion throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. It particularly addresses the use of vaccine passports, mandates and the new forms of capital extraction and political control that emerged throughout the pandemic. The book also explicates how the ‘vaccine hesitant’ became marginalized in both mainstream discourse and through regulatory interventions. Whilst the book addresses the wider political economy within which so-called ‘anti-vaxxers’ were ostracized, it also explores the complex nature of their sentiments. The book closes by considering The New Futures of Exclusion, outlining the forms of surveillance and control that may be implemented in the future particularly in light of the challenges brought by global warming and the energy transition. It is a broadly accessible text, particularly appealing to policymakers, general readers and academics in sociology, political sociology, politics, human geography, political economy, criminology, social policy, psychology, history, and infectious diseases and medicine. Daniel Briggs is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University, UK. Luke Telford is Lecturer in Criminal Justice & Social Policy at the University of York, UK. Anthony Lloyd is Associate Professor in Criminology and Sociology at Teesside University, UK. Anthony Ellis is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Lincoln, UK. .
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    ISBN: 9783031523076
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 99 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: America ; Political sociology. ; Europe ; Political leadership.
    Abstract: 1. Avoiding Calamity -- 2. Western Elites and Populists -- 3. Representative Government’s Prospects -- 4. Democracy as Rationalization and Panacea -- 5. Anticipations of Parousia in Western Societies -- 6. Intellectual Elites and Realities of Work -- 7. Plutocracy and Demagogy in a Weak State -- 8. The Democracy Ideal Reconsidered.
    Abstract: This book focuses on threats to the continued viability of Western institutions and practices for which it is not easy to conceive remedies consistent with the Western tradition. Higley argues that structural difficulties in postindustrial societies, particularly the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and elsewhere, threatened troubles that political manipulation by elites might not be sufficient to contain or resolve. Struggling against lethal climate change, politically explosive waves of migrants and refugees, the likelihood of further pandemics, populist nationalism, and destabilizing effects of social media, elites must consider new demographic, economic, social, political, and international policies. Higley offers a powerful and provocative analysis of the elite’s ability to sustain Western societies in their current social and political forms. John Higley is Emeritus Professor of Government & Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031293788
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 283 p. 31 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Political science—Study and teaching. ; Comparative government. ; Identity politics. ; Sociology. ; Social groups. ; Political sociology. ; Political science
    Abstract: Introduction -- Black Youth Activism Was Pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement: How Black Lives Matter is Inspiring Education Activists Today -- Political Participation of Young People in Serbia: Activities, Values, and Capability -- The 2018 Road Safety Protest in Bangladesh: How a Student Crown Challenged (or Could not Challenge) the Repressive State -- From the Streets to the Campus: The Institutionalization of Youth Anti-Sexual Harassment Activism in Post-Coup Egypt -- When David Defeats Goliath. The Case of MeToo University: The Solidarity Network of Victims of Gender-Based Violence in Universities -- Practising Sectarianism: Lebanese Youth Politics and the Complexity of Youth Political Engagement -- Interrogating Vulnerability within the University: A Case Study of Undocumented/DACAmented Students at a Jesuit Institution -- Making Visible Intersectional Black Pain: Embodied Activism and Affective Communities in Recent South African Youth Movements -- Existential Activism: The Complex Contestations of Trans Youth -- Critical Literacies and the Conditions of Decolonial Possibility -- Conclusion: International Perspectives on Youth Political Mobilizations.
    Abstract: At a time when political mobilisation is a symptom of social dissatisfaction, young people’s participation in political decision-making, practice and ideological change, make foregrounding and investigating their political practices a necessity. The title of this book, Young People Shaping Democratic Politics: Interrogating Inclusion, Mobilising Education clearly announces its intention, subject, and mission. This collection has been inspired by topical youth mobilisations that aim to address injustices and inequalities which are rooted in poverty, austerity, violence, increased surveillance, climate change, dislocation, xenophobia, the rise of authoritarian regimes, and a global turn to the political right. Whereas young people are politicised in moments of conflict and become symbolic conduits for the future of their nation, they represent a category most often relegated to the apolitical sphere before and after such moments of crisis. This edited collection seeks to expand our engagement with inclusion beyond educational institutions by situating young people at the centre of our inquiry, as agents of political processes that promote, problematise and re-imagine inclusive societies. The chapters engage in contemporary case-studies, which are mapped across a wide range of countries from Europe (Serbia, Spain and United Kingdom), North Africa (Egypt), South Africa, North America (United States), South-Asia (Bangladesh), and West Asia (Lebanon). Ian Rivers is Associate Principal and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK. C. Laura Lovin is an independent scholar and artist whose work centers on the intersections of feminist, queer and critical race theories within contexts of social movements, labor justice activism, cities and migration, art and visual cultures.
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    ISBN: 9783031308970
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXV, 309 p. 11 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Political sociology. ; Criminology.
    Abstract: Introduction José Pedro Zúquete -- SECTION I Conceptual/Empirical Issues -- 1. Left-wing Extremism: the conceptual dimension Uwe Backes -- 2. The Evolution of Left-Wing Extremism Garth Davies and Vanja Zdjelar -- 3. Radicalization and Left-Wing Extremism Katharina Krüsselmann and Daan Weggemans -- 4. Women in Left-Wing Extremism Irina Jugl and Daniel Kohler -- 5. Vanguardism and Left-Wing Extremism Phillip W. Gray -- 6. Left-Wing Extremism and Violence Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca -- 7. Guerrilla and Cognitive Warfare in Transnational Leftwing Extremism Josh Vandiver -- 8. The Measurement of Left-Wing Extremist Attitudes Sebastian Jungkunz -- 9. Research Techniques in the Study of Left-Wing Extremism Arije Antinori -- SECTION II Manifestations of Left-Wing Extremism -- Europe -- 10. Germany Eckhard Jesse -- 11. France Isabelle Sommier -- 12. United Kingdom Luke March -- 13. Greece Lamprini Rori and Vasiliki Georgiadou -- 14. Spain Carles Viñas -- 15. Italy Francesco Marone -- 16. Scandinavia Jan Jämte, Måns Lundstedt, Magnus Wennerhag.
    Abstract: “A first full-scale, remarkably broad conceptual and historical study of left-wing extremism. An indispensable reading in the field”. Azar Gat, Ezer Weitzman Professorial Chair, School of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel “An essential reading for those serious about understanding the contemporary challenges faced by liberal representative democracy”. Professor Matt Goodwin, University of Kent, UK “This handbook breaks with the underestimation of a polymorphic phenomenon that can now be observed all over the world and promises to become an indispensable working tool and a precious source of reflection on the new world disorder.” Pierre-André Taguieff, Director of the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po, Paris "A work of impressive originality, this remarkably comprehensive book is badly needed, providing broad comparative perspective and objective analysis of the extreme left around the world. It will be an indispensable handbook not merely for scholars but also for all those interested in contemporary affairs, for it has no equal in the current literature." Professor Stanley Payne, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA This handbook provides a broad overview of left-wing extremism and its associated key issues and themes. It breaks new ground by assembling in a single volume a comparative analysis of the phenomenon that is both multidimensional and multidisciplinary. Gathering a wide range of influential scholars who have worked at length in the field of extremism studies from different perspectives, backgrounds, and geographical settings, the Palgrave Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism presents an array of thought-provoking and innovative as well as informative analyses and discussions – both historical and contemporary – about the phenomenon of left-wing extremism and of how researchers conceive of and approach it in their study. The Handbook is designed to be, for the foreseeable future, the reference work for all students, researchers, and general readers interested in achieving a comprehensive understanding of left-wing extremism in all its manifestations, subtleties, and dynamics, and both its current and its potential directions. José Pedro Zúquete is Research Fellow at the Social Sciences Institute of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is the author of Missionary Politics in Contemporary Europe (2007), The Struggle for the World (co-authored with Charles Lindholm, 2010), and The Identitarians (2018). .
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    ISBN: 9783031225918
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 293 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science—Philosophy. ; Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; Political sociology. ; Political science
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction to the English Edition- Part 1: Dialectics and History -- Chapter 2. Dialectics as a Methodological Principle -- Chapter 3. History as the Object of Totality -- Part 2: The History and Logic of Marx’s Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 4. The Concept of the Individual in the Context of the Young Hegelian School -- Chapter 5. The Concept of the Individual in Marx’s Theory of Estrangement -- Chapter 6. The Concept of the Individual From the Perspective of History -- Chapter 7. The Concept of the Individual and Marx’s Philosophy. -- Part 3: The Normative Significance of Marx’s Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 8. Theoretical Criticism and the Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 9. A Critical-Based Theory of Individual Emancipation -- Chapter 10. Moral Criticism and the Good -- Part 4: Situating the Marx’s Concept of the Individual in the Present -- Chapter 11. Chinese Socialist Practice and the Revival of Marx’s Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 12. Studies on Marx’s Concept of the Individual and China’s Modernisation.
    Abstract: This book reconstructs the concept of the individual in Marx as the key to a fresh interpretation of Marxian philosophy. Marx moved from an examination of the contingency and indeterminacy of individual consciousness in his early years to a critique of the atomistic individual and materialised social relations in his later years. His thought proposes that ‘real individuals’ are the basis for an understanding of human society that promotes the emancipation of humankind. Marx’s philosophy has often been misunderstood as lacking a concept of the individual. In China this misunderstanding not only relates to cultural and linguistic particularities (the word ‘individual’ is seldom used in Chinese), but also relates to a misleading view of socialism and communism. This book helps remedy this misunderstanding and draws important comparisons and contrasts between Marx’s concept of the individual with that of liberalism, and between Western and Eastern Marxism. Zhi Li works at School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China, and was previously Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven, Belgium, and University of Bristol, UK. His previous publications include: The Concept of the Individual in the Thought of Karl Marx (2014), and The Ethical Critique: Karl Marx and Present World (2022).
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    ISBN: 9783031206948
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVI, 238 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: World politics. ; Political sociology. ; Political science. ; Labor. ; History.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Proletarian Youth Organizations Before the Stuttgart Conference -- Chapter 2. The Birth of a Socialist Youth International -- Chapter 3. The Anti-Militarist Struggle -- Chapter 4. The Organization of Educational Work -- Chapter 5. Unionization and the Economic Struggles of Socialist Youth -- Chapter 6. The Function and Activities of the Vienna International Secretariat from 1907 TO 1914 -- Chapter 7. The Danger of WAR: International Youth Initiatives from 1912 TO 1914 -- Chapter 8.The Youth International During World War I -- Conclusions: The End of a History and the Beginning of a Historiography.
    Abstract: “Patrizia Dogliani’s new history of the International Union of Socialist Youth draws fresh air into the often claustrophobic spaces of the history of socialism.” —Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History,European University Institute, Florence, Italy “With this new book, Patrizia Dogliani once again demonstrates why she is one of the preeminent scholars of modern international and transnational history…It is an impressive achievement.” —Talbot Charles Imlay, Professor, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada “Long recognized as a pioneering historian of youth, Patrizia Dogliani offers a rich transnational panorama of socialist youth. With an impressive command of sources, Dogliani provides an essential guide to political activism among youth across class, gender, and nationality.” —Mary Gibson, Professor of History, City University of New York, USA This book represents a valuable contribution to the history of European socialism between the Great Depression of the 1880s and WWI. It comes to fill a gap in the scholarship, insofar as it investigates the history of the Socialist Youth International. Capitalizing on an approach based on social, quantitative and political history, and on an analysis of mentalities and languages, the book reconstructs the many-sidedness of the “school of recruits” of the social-democratic parties and revolutionary movements. The working conditions of youth in Europe, its unionization and economic struggles, the fight against militarism, the pedagogical work, the internationalism and the commitment to maintain peace, and the attitude of young militants towards revolution are some of the themes investigated in the book. It also clarifies the role and the engagement with the issue of the new generation shown by prominent figures of Marxism such as Karl Liebknecht, Jean Jaurès, Henri De Man, Willi Münzenberg, Henriette Roland Holst, and Robert Danneberg. Finally, the book constitutes also a page of European social and political history, reconstructed through the relationship of youth working class movement with the Marxist tradition. Patrizia Dogliani is Full Professor of Contemporary History at Bologna University, Italy, and Visiting Professor in Academic institutions in France and in USA. .
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    ISBN: 9783031413971
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 296 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political sociology. ; Political science ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- PART I Trust, Distrust, and Democracy -- 2 Trust in Science Revisited. Social-Epistemic Challenges in Democratic and Digital Societies -- 3 Suspicious Minds: Towards a Typology of Political Distrust -- 4 Distrust and Democracy -- PART II Authoritarianism and Democracy -- 5 Whose populism? What democracy? On the Conceptual and Normative Connections of Populism and Democracy -- 6 Carl Schmitt and the Political Theology of Populism -- 7 Between Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Illiberal Challenge -- 8 The Grey Areas of Democracy: Indifference and the Erosion of Democratic Principles from Within -- 9 Constitutional Thought, Democracy and Crisis Government -- PART III Democracy—The Will of the People? -- 10 From the Democracy of Opinions to the Democracy of Procedures -- 11 The Agenda Problem in Referendum Democracy -- 12 On the Concept and Practice of Democracy in Late Modern Mass Conditions: An Oakeshottian Update.
    Abstract: Is it possible, in the complex modern world, to have a government ‘by the people’? Does, for example, digital technology help us to bring the reality closer to the ideal? Or does it actually make the ideal unattainable? The volume brings together conceptual historians, philosophers, political theorists and sociologists to discuss the criticisms and crises of democracy with fresh approaches to the idea of democracy, democratic theory, democratic institutions, trust and distrust, populism, and advancement of technologies in Western societies. Eerik Lagerspetz is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland. Oili Pulkkinen is a historian, who is currently researching artificial intelligence, democracy, political subjectivity and time.
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    ISBN: 9783031385834
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 270 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political sociology. ; Comparative government. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1- Passive revolutions and the future of the EU: democratic theorising and the ‘decolonial multitude’ -- Chapter 2- From a European ‘people(s)’ to the decolonial multitude: Democratising the EU’s political imaginary -- Chapter 3-The political and ideological genealogy of the ‘citizen’ turn in the EU: The European Citizen Consultations, the citizen dialogues and the antipolitical imaginary -- Chapter 4-Democracy without politics in the Conference on the Future of Europe: The political architecture, process and recommendations -- Chapter 5- The presence of the absence of the EU people(s): Individualised Technodeliberation in the CoFoE European Citizens’ Panels -- Chapter 6- The institutional ‘success’ of the CoFoE via the ‘new generation’ citizen panels: The European Commission leads the public-private ‘citizen turn’ -- Chapter 7- “The lost art of organising (transnational) solidarity”: Articulating the decolonial multitude in the EU (and beyond) -- Chapter 8-The contrast between the EU’s technocratic conception of ‘citizen participation’ and the democratic pluralism of the decolonial multitude.
    Abstract: “If you want to understand how we might move from political passivity to unlock decolonial and revolutionary action at a European scale, this is a book for you”. —Niccolò Milanese, European Alternatives “Combining innovative democratic theory with empirically rich narratives, Oleart has found an ingenious way of contrasting the depoliticized nature of the EU’s ‘citizen turn’ with fully politicized transnational social movements. A real tour de force and a must-read for all those interested in the question of how to democratize the EU.” —Vivien A. Schmidt, Boston University, USA “Through the original and powerful concept of the ‘decolonial multitude’, Oleart provides an empirically grounded critique of the ‘citizen turn’ in European politics.” —Jan Orbie, Ghent University, Belgium How does the dominant understanding(s) of the demo(i)cratic subject in the EU, and of democracy more broadly, shape the EU’s democratic innovations on ‘citizen participation’? What are the politically and normatively preferable alternatives, both in terms of the conceptualisation of the democratic subject in the EU and in the ensuing political practices? The book addresses these questions combining a political theory with a political sociology perspective, contrasting the Democracy Without Politics approach of the EU in the context of the Conference on the Future of Europe and its institutional follow-up with that of ongoing transnational activist processes. In doing so, it develops an agonistic alternative to ‘the people(s)’ as the political imaginary of democracy in the EU, which is based on the idea of the ‘decolonial multitude’. Thus, the book puts forward a diagnosis of current debates on EU democratic legitimacy as well as proposing an alternative. Alvaro Oleart is a researcher at the Department of Political Science and the Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is the author of Framing TTIP in the European Public Spheres: Towards an Empowering Dissensus for EU integration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), also published in the Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology series. .
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    ISBN: 9783031256097
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 401 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: New Perspectives on South-East Europe
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Comparative government. ; Political sociology. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Populism, Clientelism and Corruption and the International Crisis of Democracy -- 3. The Pendulum of Democracy in Post-Yugoslav Successor States: Causes of the Backsliding of Democracy -- 4. Economy, Culture and Party System: Preconditions for State-Society Relations Eroding Democracy -- 5. Populism as a Type of State-Society Relations Eroding Democracy -- 6. Political clientelism as a Type of State-Society Relations Eroding Democracy -- 7. Political corruption as a Type of State-Society Relations Eroding Democracy -- 8. How Elected Governments Make Democracies Backslide: the Case of Serbia -- 9. How Elected Governments Make Democracies Backslide: the Case of Montenegro -- 10. How Elected Governments Make Democracies Backslide: the case of North Macedonia -- 11. Prolonging or Halting Democratic Erosion in Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia: a Comparison -- 12. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book is a "Must-Read" for those interested to grasp the fluidity of dynamics marking the Yugoslav successor states, and particularly Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. The author insightfully describes how corruption, clientelism, and populism dramatically squeeze these countries in a vice grip between democratization and its reversal. The image of the "irregular pendulum of democracy" helps focusing on key mechanisms causing the backsliding of democracy in this European region. Stefano Bianchini, University of Bologna, Italy The first original contribution of this book is a productive analytical merge of populism, clientelism and corruption with specific strategies that elites employ to push democracy downhill. The second one is a refined analysis of an “irregular pendulum of democracy” in Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. Sotiropoulos’ arguments are clear and convincing. His sophisticated empirical analysis is firmly based in theory and sovereign knowledge of post-Yugoslav politics. Jovan Teokarević, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and College of Europe, Belgium The author offers a lucid account of the weakening of democratic institutions in the Western Balkans and a theoretical explanation of the causal mechanisms enabling authoritarian-minded leaderships to hold on power. Drawing on democratization theory and extensive fieldwork, the book presents a deeply thought-out analytical scheme of authoritarian trends that is worth testing in other regions as well. Nikolaos Tzifakis, University of the Peloponnese, Greece This book interprets the backsliding of democracy through a metaphor, the 'irregular pendulum of democracy', suggesting that regimes may swing between liberal democracy and competitive authoritarianism. Irregular movements may occur back and forth, particularly when democracy is not consolidated. The book analyses the swing of unconsolidated democracy away from the democratic end in the cases of today’s Serbia and Montenegro and the tentative swing back towards liberal democracy in the case of North Macedonia after 2017. Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 189 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science—Philosophy. ; Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; Marxian economics. ; Political sociology. ; Political science
    Abstract: 1.Introduction -- Part I: Democratic Criticism of Work -- 2. Chapter 1 : The Political Meaning of the Critique of Work -- 3.Chapter 2. Neoliberalism versus Democratic Work -- Part II: Theoretical Models and Political Issues -- 4.Chapter 3. The class struggle : revolutionising institutions to democratise labour -- 5.Chapter 4. Industrial democracy: democratising work to transform institutions -- 6.Chapter 5. Materialist feminism: the democratic stakes of the definition of work-for -- 7.Chapter 6. Political ecology : what kind of work does the critique of productivism lead to ? -- Part III: Work, democratic experiments -- 8.Chapter 7. Self-management: towards a revolution in the process, organisation and division of labour -- 9.Chapter. 8. Workers’ councils and council democracy: towards a democratic transformation of the company, the State, and the municipality -- 10. Conclusion. .
    Abstract: "This book is an exceptionally rich study that will mark a major intervention in the live discussions on the social and political centrality of work. Cukier investigates the many ways in which democratic life depends on the democratic control of the economy, from workplaces to the economy as a whole." –Jean-Philippe Deranty, Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Australia. This book proposes a radical transformation of labour institutions, in order to lay the foundation for the democratization of society rather than capitalist accumulation. Using an empirical analysis of the contemporary world of work, Alexis Cukier examines the democratic meaning of today’s critique of work organization and questions the theoretical models (linked to class struggles and to industrial democracy) to conceive of a "democratic work." Considering particular historical experiments (such as cooperatives, self-management, worker’s councils) that try to realize democracy at work, this book also analyzes the political issue of "democratic work" in relation to issues such as labour law, feminist struggles and political ecology. Ultimately, this book proposes some institutional paths that could overtake the divide between the rights of the citizens and the rights of the workers, arguing finally: if we really want to radicalize democracy, we should begin with democratizing work. Alexis Cukier is Associate Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy and member of the research laboratory Métaphysique Allemande et Philosophie Pratique, University of Poitiers, France. .
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    ISBN: 9783031383809
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 273 p. 13 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political sociology. ; Political leadership. ; Comparative government. ; Communication in politics. ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Introducing women leaders: Merkel and Solberg -- Chapter 3: Angela Merkel’s approach to the pandemic -- Chapter 4: Erna Solberg’s approach to the pandemic -- Chapter 5: Introducing techno-populist leaders and their alternative: Conte and Macron faced to Sánchez -- Chapter 6: Giuseppe Conte’s approach to the pandemic Chapter 7: Emmanuel Macron’s approach to the pandemic -- Chapter 8: Pedro Sánchez’s approach to the pandemic -- Chapter 9: The Pandemic Turn: Populist government leaders facing the virus Chapter 10: Boris Johnson’s approach to the pandemic Chapter 11: Viktor Orbán’s approach to the pandemic -- Chapter 12: Conclusions.
    Abstract: European leaders faced the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting very different leadership styles, characterized by diverging approaches to crisis communication, power management, and relationship-building with actors and stakeholders in the public sphere. The pandemic also highlighted the importance of the already-existing cleavage between populism and technocracy, positioning it at the centre of the political scene. These complex circumstances required a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in political sociology and communication studies. To address these issues, this book analyses the communication and leadership styles of seven European leaders, grouped into ‘political families’. It analyses the cases of Angela Merkel and Erna Solberg to understand if and how female leaderships differentiated from their male counterparts. It then analyses the relationship between techno-populism and professional politics by comparing the cases of Giuseppe Conte, Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sanchez. Finally, it focuses on populist leaders Boris Johnson and Victor Orbán, who represent emblematic cases with opposite outcomes. Flaminia Saccà is Full Professor of Political Sociology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee ‘Sociotechnics-Sociological Practice’; board member of the ESA Political Sociology Research Network; and Director of the Science, Politics and Society Lab. Her latest publications focus on female leadership and gender violence. Donatella Selva is Assistant Professor in Sociology of Communication at the University of Florence, Italy. She works in the field of political communication, media and cultural studies. She has recently published a monograph to explore the relationship between social media, information disorders and the processes of emotionalization of the public sphere.
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    ISBN: 9783031274770
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 379 p. 26 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barrett, Vickie Politics, punitiveness, and problematic populations
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    Keywords: Crime—Sociological aspects. ; Corrections. ; Punishment. ; Political sociology. ; Criminology. ; Mass media and crime. ; Social policy. ; Crime
    Abstract: Chapter 1: What Do We Know About Punitiveness? -- Chapter 2: Exploring Trends in Punitiveness -- Chapter 3: Generational effects of attitudes towards rulebreakers -- Chapter 4: Using cognitive interviewing to explore contemporary attitudes towards ‘rulebreakers’ -- Chapter 5: A Quantitative Framework -- Chapter 6: The Need to Punish? Punitive attitudes towards Rulebreaking School Pupils -- Chapter 7: Cheating the System? Punitive attitudes towards Rulebreaking Welfare Claimants -- Chapter 7: Cheating the System? Punitive attitudes towards Rulebreaking Welfare Claimants -- Chapter 9: The Relationship between Social and Political Attitudes and Punitiveness -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book speaks to those interested in topics related to punitiveness and public attitudes to crime and punishment. Punitiveness has been the focus of increasing criminological attention in recent decades. This book extends this focus by taking a multi-disciplinary approach to examining punitiveness in the criminal justice system, the welfare system, and the education system in British society today. In doing so, this study uses new survey data (n=5,781) applying ordinal and linear regression and structural equation modelling to examine the relationship between public punitiveness towards ‘rulebreakers’ and political values. This is explored through assessing punitive attitudes towards the treatment of i) school pupils who break school rules, ii) towards the treatment of benefit recipients who fail to comply with the rules, and iii) towards people who break the law. It examines the relationship between political attitudes (neo-conservative values, neo-liberal values), nostalgic values (social, economic, and political), and public punitive attitudes towards the three rule-breaking groups. This book’s appeal may extend to an interdisciplinary audience including welfare, education, and social policy disciplines. Vickie Barrett is Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She worked as a teacher and a probation officer before returning to academia to undertake her PhD at the University of Sheffield. Emily Gray is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Warwick in the Sociology Department, UK. She is a mixed methods researcher who specialises in examining long-term trends in relation to crime, politics and society. Stephen Farrall is Professor of Criminology in the School of Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, UK. His recent book Respectable Citizens – Shady Practices (OUP, 2020) won the Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. .
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    ISBN: 9783031312649
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 222 p. 20 illus., 19 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Emigration and immigration—Government policy. ; Emigration and immigration—Social aspects. ; Political sociology. ; Human rights. ; Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration
    Abstract: Chapter 1: European Societies, EU Politics and Social In/Exclusions of minorities -- Chapter 2: Euro-/Refugee-/Security/Fragmentation/Environment/Corona-Crises: the new Europeanized ‘normal’? -- Chapter 3: Identity Politics, Political Mobilization and Social In/Exclusions -- Chapter 4: The politics of in/exclusion in the EU: Gender and sexuality minorities -- Chapter 5: Political Mobilizations regarding gender & LGBT+: Spain, Sweden, Germany and Poland -- Chapter 6: The politics of in/exclusion in the EU: refugees and migrants’ -- Chapter 7: Political Mobilizations regarding refugees and migrants: Spain, Sweden, Germany and Poland -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Social In/Exclusions of minorities in an uncertain European future.
    Abstract: “Moving beyond a market-centric paradigm of social in/exclusion, this book critically interrogates the push/pull socio-political factors by which marginalised groups are simultaneously included and excluded across the EU. This sensitive and thought-provoking account highlights the progress being made, the obstacles that remain, and the need for all EU students to rethink conceptualisations and understandings of equality.” –Paul Copeland, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, UK This volume provides an updated analysis of the most significant constitutive aspects for the political sociology of the EU. It examines in detail how civic and political activism regarding the inclusion and integration of gender and sexual minorities, as well as migrants and refugees, have become substantial forces in Europe today. It exhibits a political sociology perspective that moves away from the predominant state-centrism and institutional focus in mainstream analyses of European politics. It brings to the fore the role of citizens, civil society and identity politics as well as transnational societal phenomena impacting on the ambivalent civic in/exclusion tendencies prevalent in the EU. The book highlights the linkage of EU institutions and policies to established and new societal actors in response to recent challenges of the EU. Markus Thiel is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Director of the EU-Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, Florida International University, USA. Ernesto Fiocchetto is Research Assistant at the EU-Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, Florida International University, USA. Jeffrey D. Maslanik is Visiting Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Vietnam National University, Vietnam.
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    ISBN: 9783031436505
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 268 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe ; World politics. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: 1.Britain: a decade of crises, 2008-2022 -- 2. The British Empire: finessing the collapse, 1942-56 -- 3. European Union: particular anxieties, deeper issues, 2008-22 -- 4. Britain’s Financial Crisis: debts, bail-outs and austerity, 2008-10 -- 5. European Union: the migration crisis, 1999-2015 -- 6. Brexit Crisis: unpacking some of the lessons, 2016-22 -- 7.The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2020 -- 8. The Disaster in Ukraine: tracking the failures of political elites, 1991-2022 -- 9. Re-imagining Britain: crises, identity and representation,1973-98 -- 10. On Living in a Rich Country. - 11. Afterword.
    Abstract: The period 2008–2022 has seen the British state/government embroiled in a number of full-blown crises, each impacting the fundamental operations of the state and demanding, therefore, urgent responses from the government of the day. In the first case, the 2008 near-collapse and partial nationalization of the banking system consequent upon decades of irresponsible credit creation coupled to permissive regulation; in the second , the migration crisis of 2015, which saw waves of refugees moving through Europe, provoking anxious responses from European Union member states and opening-up related political debates in Britain; thus, third , the 2016 referendum in regard to membership of the European Union, which the London-based elite clearly thought they would navigate easily before, to their evident shock, losing, an event itself precipitating further extraordinary Westminster manoeuvring; and then fourth the 2020 Covid- 19 pandemic, met with an initial casual sangfroid before the government, its actions informed by epidemiological modelling, made an abrupt shift to ‘lockdown’, with dramatic social and economic consequences. To these episodes, whose impacts run down to the present, could be added, fifth, the 2022 disaster in Ukraine where the British state/government has chosen to involve itself by supporting one set of combatants in a conflict where presently, after more than a year of fighting, there is little sign of a means to the resolution of the violence. This book examines the crises and tracks how each developed; how state/ government failings in one case were rehearsed in the next; and, more generally, how these crises have been amplified by the decades-long celebration of globalization theory; and, finally, at how following the most recent crisis the future might unfold, hence the ideas of deglobalization, resilience and, more speculatively, the possibilities of democratization. P. W. Preston is Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031448614
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 199 p. 44 illus., 32 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023
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    Keywords: Mass media and crime. ; Political sociology. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Computer crimes. ; Social justice. ; Human rights.
    Abstract: 1. Gender, Protest and Precarity in the Digital Era – Media and Resistance in Authoritarian Contents -- 2. Digitalized Action Repertoires – Cultural Production as Protest -- 3. Mapping the Farsi Twittersphere - Tracing, Mapping and Archiving Transnational Connections -- 4. Sex, Drugs and Control - Corruption in Contemporary Iran -- 5. Publishers to Platforms – Social Media as Data.
    Abstract: This book provides an analysis of social media and women’s resistance in Iran with relevance to similar polities. The author examines how Iranian women continue to fight against the regime’s gender discriminatory laws and protest the government in public squares and in virtual spaces. The book presents a critical approach to technology’s role in politics and society and an in-depth analysis of authoritarianism and its relationship to social media harms and state violence. With a particular focus on images, hashtags, and other digital content, it calls for a rethinking of the concepts of crime, culture, and control in the technosocial world. The author draws on conceptual contributions from the fields of criminology, philosophy, psychology, technology and media studies. Layla May is a researcher and data analyst based in the United States. Her work explores the intersection of technology, media, and human rights.
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    ISBN: 9783031332913
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 199 p. 9 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Identity politics. ; Political sociology. ; Political science. ; World politics. ; Minderheit ; Kurden ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Politisches Verhalten ; Sozialverhalten ; Politisches Bewusstsein ; Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein ; Widerstand ; Selbstbild ; Fremdbild
    Abstract: Chapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2- An overview of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict narratives and their effects on intergroup relations -- Chapter 3- Understanding the Implications of Victimhood Identity in Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict -- Chapter 4- Collective Identity in Kurds: From Collective Memory of Rights Violations to Rights Consciousness -- Chapter 5- Oath to Death: An Analysis of Sait Kırmızıtoprak’s Contested Memory -- Chapter 6- The other of the other: Syrian refugees from the perspective of Kurdish minority in Turkey -- Chapter 7- From Collective Action to Collective Resistance: Working with the Saturday Mothers -- Chapter 8- Reflexivity and Positionality in Qualitative Research: On Being an Outsider in the Field -- Chapter 9- How did ‘Turkish’ psychology become the mainstream? A discourse analysis on the trajectory of its colonial legacy -- Chapter 10- Conclusion.
    Abstract: Research into Kurdishness touches on many of the important global issues within contemporary social and political psychology - questions about the rigors of methodology, the importance of reflexivity, issues of replicability, and the role of decolonization in research on actors in intractable conflicts. This volume will provide an in-depth account of historical and contemporary research on Kurdishness in Turkey, including research on social identity, conflict and conflict resolution, as well as collective action and resistance. It will also address methodological issues, including fieldwork in conflict zones, reflexivity in research, and intersectionality. This volume also provides lessons from related disciplines such as Kurdish studies and sociology to provide political psychologists some insight into their own research practices from disciplines wherein questions of intersectionality and reflexivity have long been ongoing.
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    ISBN: 9783031291449
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 304 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
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    DDC: 306.483
    Keywords: Sports—Sociological aspects. ; Political sociology. ; Human geography. ; Sports ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Introduction, Alpan and Sonntag -- 2. Demographic Trends in Ten Major European Leagues, Özgehan Senyuva and Ramon Llopis-Goig -- Part 1. Classical Stadium Politics in the Age of Fascism 3. The Stadio Mussolini or the Avatars of Football Stadiums, Paul Dietschy -- 4. What’s in a Name? The City of Stuttgart and the Toponymical Journey of its Football Stadium, Albrecht Sonntag -- Part 2. Contemporary Case Studies -- 5. The Stade de France and Wembley as Social Space: a Tale of Two Stadiums, Hugh Dauncey -- 6. The Global Branding of Camp Nou, Hunter Shobe -- 7. Spatial Aspects of Identity Differentiation – Stadiums in Bosnia, Özgür Dirim Özkan -- 8. Pitch Fever. Swedish Football and the Grass Dilemma, Katarzyna Herd -- Part 3. Protest Cultures and Crowd Control -- 9. Fandom as Contention: Çarşı Fans in Gezi Protests in Turkey, Ömer Turan and Burak Özçetin -- 10. Resistance Identities and Right-Wing Tendencies: The Politics of Polish Football Stadiums, Radoslav Kossakowski -- 11. Stadia as the Sites of ‘The Political’ : The Case of the Passolig in Turkey, Başak Alpan and Tanil Bora -- 12. The Football Stadium as a Space for Protest – Female Supporters in Persepolis, Caroline Azad -- 13. The Post-Pandemic Football Stadium, Jean-Michel Roux, Natalia R. de Melo, Cristiane de S. Duarte, Elson M. Pereira.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change. Rather than acting as functional constructions designed merely to host football games, stadiums stand out in the urban landscape as landmarks that serve as gathering points for large communities. The manifestation of the political in football stadiums can be heard in the discontent voiced by supporter activism; in the use of stadiums for national and local identity politics; in attempts to instrumentalize emotions by both totalitarian and democratic regimes; among fan groups in political uprisings, and in the surveillance of fans through e-tickets and seat allocation. This edited collection brings together a variety of case studies from a wide range of different contexts. Contributors stem from political science, sociology, history, anthropology, human geography and urbanism. As such, the book redefines and broadens what we understand as the political dimension of the football stadium. Başak Alpan is Associate Professor in European Politics and Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Katarzyna Herd is researcher at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden. Albrecht Sonntag is Professor at the EU-Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management in Angers, France. .
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    ISBN: 9783031192425
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 302 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Hate Studies
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    Keywords: Critical criminology. ; Human rights. ; Political sociology. ; Law and the social sciences. ; Public law . ; Identity politics.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 Myth, Identity, Order -- 3 Peace and Liberty: The Public Order Act 1936 -- 4 Race and Order: Stirring Up Racial Hatred -- 5 Class and Control: The Public Order Act 1986 -- 6 Being and Believing: Stirring Up Religious Hatred -- 7 Progress and Tradition: Stirring Up Hatred on Grounds of Sexual Orientation -- 8 Conclusions: From Myth to Fantasy.
    Abstract: This book critically examines the development of the ‘stirring up hatred’ offences which are currently found within the UK’s Public Order Act 1986. Through a critical discourse analysis of key excerpts of parliamentary Hansard, the book constructs a detailed genealogy of the offences from the perspectives that shaped them. A novel application of theory on 'myth' is used to navigate the complex arguments and to trace ideas about identity and order across parliamentary debates, from fears of Fascism in the 1930s to condemnations of homophobia in the early 21st century. The story of the stirring up hatred offences told in this book therefore extends far beyond the traditional frame of a dilemma between regulating hate speech and safeguarding free speech: it is inextricably entwined with myths about law, race and national identity, and speaks to wider themes of coloniality, neoliberalism, white entitlement, British-Christian exceptionalism and the innocence of law. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book challenges a wide range of assumptions about hate speech law and raises a series of considerations for developing forms of accountability that are less complicit in the harms that they are supposed to redress. Jen Neller is Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where she teaches Public Law and research methods. She is a co-author of the last two editions of Pearson’s Law of the European Union textbook and has published in Critical Discourse Studies and the International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. Jen obtained a PhD in law from Birkbeck University of London in 2020.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 276 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Critical Criminological Perspectives
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    Keywords: Technology—Sociological aspects. ; Human rights. ; Crime. ; Technology. ; Political sociology. ; Political planning. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Technology
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence: An Overview (Aleš Završnik, PhD, Katja Simončič, PhD) -- PART I: AI IN DIFFERENT DOMAINS -- Chapter 2: Confusing prevention with prediction: the open challenges of AI applied to criminal justice (Michele Miravalle, PhD) -- Chapter 3: Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Safeguards Examined through the Lens of Criminal Justice Covert Surveillance Operations (Ger Coffey, PhD) -- Chapter 4: Artificial Intelligence and Sentencing from a Human Rights Perspective (Felix Butz, Stephan Christoph, PhD, Stefan Harrendorf, PhD, Katrin Höffler, PhD, Johannes Kaspar, PhD, Lucia Sommerer, PhD) -- Chapter 5: Modern warfare, artificial intelligence and the threat to human rights (Kristian P. Humble, PhD) -- Chapter 6: Border control goes digital and profiles you: Insights from the new ETIAS regulation (Valeria Ferraris, PhD) -- Chapter 7: Technical and legal challenges of automated facial recognition technologies (Patricia Faraldo Cabana, PhD) -- Chapter 8: Artificial intelligence and prohibition of discrimination (Karmen Lutman, PhD) -- Chapter 9: The educational AI system: Which potential for children’s autonomy? (Deborah De Felice, PhD, Mariavittoria Catanzariti, PhD) -- PART II: HOW TO TACKLE AI: POLICY, REGULATION, GOVERNANCE -- Chapter 10: In defence of ethics: How ethics assessment of AI systems can complement the international human rights law? (Aleš Završnik, PhD) -- Chapter 11: A Survey of Approaches to Computational Ethics (Ljupčo Todorovski, PhD) -- Chapter 12: The role and responsibilities of businesses under international human rights law (Lane Lottie, PhD) -- Chapter 13: The Automated Surveillance Marketplace (Yung Au, PhD) -- Chapter 14: Issues and Best Practices in Using Artificial Intelligence for Public Policy Decision-Making (Marko Drobnjak, Teja Pristavec, PhD) -- Chapter 15: Democratizing the Governance of AI: From Platform Monopolies to Platform Cooperatives (Katja Simončič, PhD) -- Chapter 16: When AI fails, can AI incident databases improve accountability and support human rights? (Rowena Rodrigues, PhD, Nicole Santiago, Anaïs Rességuier).
    Abstract: T his book critically explores how and to what extent artificial intelligence (AI) can infringe human rights and/or lead to socially harmful consequences and how to avoid these. The European Union has outlined how it will use big data, machine learning, and AI to tackle a number of inherently social problems, including poverty, climate change, social inequality and criminality. The contributors of this book argue that the developments in AI must take place in an appropriate legal and ethical framework and they make recommendations to ensure that harm and human rights violations are avoided. The book is split into two parts: the first addresses human rights violations and harms that may occur in relation to AI in different domains (e.g. border control, surveillance, facial recognition) and the second part offers recommendations to address these issues. It draws on interdisciplinary research and speaks to policy-makers and criminologists, sociologists, scholars in STS studies, security studies scholars and legal scholars. Dr Aleš Završnik is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and Full Professor at the Faculty of Law University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dr Katja Simončič is a researcher who researches the topic of social harm, white-collar crimes and other social justice issues.
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    ISBN: 9783031304309
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 265 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Banwell, Stacy The war against nonhuman animals
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    Keywords: Animal welfare—Moral and ethical aspects. ; Critical criminology. ; Political sociology. ; Sex. ; Human rights. ; International criminal law. ; Animal welfare ; Tierschutz ; Tierquälerei ; Tierrecht ; Personenrecht ; Recht auf Leben ; Speziesismus ; Rassismus ; Sexismus ; Gewalttätigkeit
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction - The war against nonhuman animals -- Chapter 2: Granting nonhuman animal legal personhood: the implications for human and nonhuman animals -- Chapter 3: Assaults on fertility and motherhood: Gendered reproductive violence and reproductive coercion against human and nonhuman animals- Chapter 4: Male-directed conflict-related sexual and reproductive violence against human and nonhuman animals -- Chapter 5: The nature, motivations and consequences of the animal-industrial complex -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
    Abstract: “The War Against Nonhuman Animals is a well written, rich and thought-provoking book…The book will likely provoke debate but it can hardly be overlooked. I strongly recommend it to readers who are interested in human-nonhuman animal relations.” – Ragnhild Sollund, Professor in Criminology, Norway “A hugely thought-provoking response to the question of the animal. Against the backdrop of the triple-planetary crisis and contemporary scientific and moral perspectives, Banwell’s analysis is a very welcome contribution with interdisciplinary relevance.” – Opi Outhwaite, Environmental Law Specialist, UNEP-WCMC, UK “This is a challenging and fascinating study.” – Steven Haines, Professor of International Law, UK We are currently engaged in an existential species war against nonhuman animals. This book argues that, during this war, nonhuman animals should be granted legal personhood and treated as ‘protected persons’ rather than the property of ‘protected persons.’ The main argument is that War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity – rape, forced pregnancy and other acts of sexual violence – are being committed within the meat, egg and dairy industries. Avoiding ‘dreaded comparisons’, the book explores shared sources of oppression between human and nonhuman animals who are subject to the expressions and consequences of reproductive violence. It asks: what drives and facilitates the war against nonhuman animals? And what are the global consequences of this war? Throughout, it demonstrates how racism, sexism, and speciesism informs both intrahuman violence and the violence(s) of the animal-industrial complex. Ultimately the book asks us to reconsider what it means to be human. Stacy Banwell is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Greenwich, UK. Her research addresses the gendered impact of war and armed conflict. She is currently writing a book called Climate Change and Atrocity Crimes. .
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    ISBN: 9783031319600
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 325 p. 23 illus., 19 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
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    Keywords: Religion and politics. ; Political planning. ; Social policy. ; Political science. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Part 1: Theoretical Considerations -- Chapter 1. Religion, Faith-Based Organizations and Welfare Delivery in Contemporary Africa and Latin America (Miguel Glatzer, Paul Christopher Manuel, and Christine A. Gustafson) -- Chapter 2. The Complex Context for Social Welfare and Human Capacity Strategies in Africa (Katherine Marshall) -- Chapter 3.“Africa is not a country”: General Overview of Faith-based Services and Social Welfare in Africa (Nadine Bowers Du Toit and Barnabe Anzuruni Msabah) -- Part 2: Societies With a Dominant Religious Marketplace -- Chapter 4. Muslim NGOs in Contemporary Ghana (Holger Weiss) -- Chapter 5. Faith-based Organizations and the Challenge of Developmental Social Welfare in Democratic South Africa (Ignatius Swart) -- Chapter 6. Evolutionary Effectiveness of Faith-based Organizations Public Agency in Kenya (Richard Muko Ochanda, and Humphrey Waliang’i Wafula) -- Chapter 7. From Prominence to Derision? Chile’s Religious Actors Confront a Turning Point in their Social Welfare Roles (Mathew Carnes and Raimundo Salas Schweikart) -- Chapter 8. The Church of the Poor, Civil Society, and Democracy in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca 1960s–2010s (Juan Manuel Lombera) -- Part 3: Societies with Mixed Religious Marketplaces -- Chapter 9. Faith-based Organizations, Society, and the State in Chad (Mayke Kaag) -- Chapter 10. Faith-based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in Nigeria (Omobolaji O. Olarinmoye) -- Chapter 11. Faith-based Organizations, Society, and the State in Mozambique (Victoria Armando Chifeche) -- Chapter 12. The Contributions of Faith-based Organizations in Uruguay: The most Secularized Sountry in Latin America (Néstor Da Costa).
    Abstract: The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries, including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and states with different levels and types of government-provided social services. Among other questions, the chapters examine the types of social service activities faith-based organizations engage in; their effect on civil society and democratic processes; their influence on the character of local and national communities; and what new pressures would be brought to bear on state-provided services if these faith-based organizations ceased to exist. Miguel Glatzer is professor of political science at La Salle University in Philadelphia. Christine A. Gustafson is professor of politics at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. Paul Manuel is a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown.
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    ISBN: 9783031242359
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 346 p. 18 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Comparative government. ; Political psychology. ; Political sociology. ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Anatomy of democratic frustration -- Chapter 2 Democratic desire and delivery deficit: Operationalising democratic frustration -- Chapter 3 Narratives of democratic frustration -- Chapter 4 Causes of democratic frustration -- Chapter 5 Withdrawal, anger, and aggression: the behavioural consequences of democratic frustration -- Chapter 6 Democratic frustration amongst youth: the case of first time voters -- Chapter 7 An experiment on democratic frustration -- Chapter 8 Conclusions.
    Abstract: At a time of widespread disillusion, citizens keep telling us how “frustrated” they feel with their democracies. However, whilst scholars and commentators alike have heard that complain millions of times, we may not have taken it as seriously as we should. The author takes the concept of democratic frustration literally and puts it under an unprecedented analytical and empirical microscope. She applies insights from the psychology and political science literatures and uses a mixture of panel studies, surveys, interviews, and experiments to understand its sources, nature, dimensions, and consequences. The book sheds unprecedented light on pathologies of democratic frustration in the US, UK, Australia, and South Africa with a double focus on the general population, and on young people. Doing so, it reveals new thought-provoking insights on the true nature of contemporary democratic crises, and not least on how citizens’ actual desire for democracy uniquely shapes their dissatisfaction. Sarah Harrison is Deputy Director of the Electoral Psychology Observatory and Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Department of Government, LSE, UK. .
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    ISBN: 9783031362682
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXV, 374 p. 6 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Political sociology. ; Criminology.
    Abstract: Introduction José Pedro Zúquete North-America -- 17. Anarchist Violence in the United States: 1900 to the Present Richard Bach Jensen -- 18. Antifa: Anatomy of a Movement George Michael -- 19. Are Right-Wing Americans Really More Tolerant of Political Violence? George Hawley -- 20. Examining Equity, Extremism, and Left-Right Reciprocal Radicalization Jacob Zenn -- 21. The Revolutionary Left in Central America Alberto Martín Álvarez -- South-America -- 22. Colombia Juan Federico Pino-Uribe and Andrea Marcela Cely Forero -- 23. Peru Martin Tanaka -- 24. Venezuela Margarita Lopez Maya and Neller Ochoa Hernandez -- Asia-Pacific -- 25. China Barbara Mittler -- 26. Southeast Asia Matthew Galway -- 27. India Niranjan Saho -- 28. Australia Kristy Campion -- Africa -- 29. Left-Wing Revolutionary Violence in Africa John LeJeune -- GLOBE -- 30. Left-Wing Extremism and the War on Civilization José Pedro Zúquete -- 31. Eco-Extremism and Apocalypticism Miroslav Mareš -- PART III CONTENTIOUS ISSUES – THE MAINSTREAMING OF LEFT-WING EXTREMISM -- 32. Left-Modernism Extremism Eric Kaufmann -- 33. The Woke Phenomenon: Its Impact and Different Responses Pierre Valentin -- 34. Ideological Corruption of Science: Is the Right always wrong? John Staddon -- 35. The Radicalization of the American Academy Lee Jussim, Nathan Honeycutt, Pamela Paresky, Akeela Careem, Danica Finkelstein, Joel Finkelstein.
    Abstract: “A first full-scale, remarkably broad conceptual and historical study of left-wing extremism. An indispensable reading in the field”. Azar Gat, Ezer Weitzman Professorial Chair, School of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel “An essential reading for those serious about understanding the contemporary challenges faced by liberal representative democracy”. Matt Goodwin, Professor of Politics, University of Kent, UK “This handbook breaks with the underestimation of a polymorphic phenomenon that can now be observed all over the world and promises to become an indispensable working tool and a precious source of reflection on the new world disorder.” Pierre-André Taguieff, Director of the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po, Paris "A work of impressive originality, this remarkably comprehensive book is badly needed, providing broad comparative perspective and objective analysis of the extreme left around the world. It will be an indispensable handbook not merely for scholars but also for all those interested in contemporary affairs, for it has no equal in the current literature." Stanley Payne, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA This handbook provides a broad overview of left-wing extremism and its associated key issues and themes. It breaks new ground by assembling in a single volume a comparative analysis of the phenomenon that is both multidimensional and multidisciplinary. Gathering a wide range of influential scholars who have worked at length in the field of extremism studies from different perspectives, backgrounds, and geographical settings, the Palgrave Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism presents an array of thought-provoking and innovative as well as informative analyses and discussions – both historical and contemporary - about the phenomenon of left-wing extremism and of how researchers conceive of and approach it in their study. The Handbook is designed to be, for the foreseeable future, the reference work for all students, researchers, and general readers interested in achieving a comprehensive understanding of left-wing extremism in all its manifestations, subtleties, and dynamics, and both its current and its potential directions. José Pedro Zúquete is Research Fellow at the Social Sciences Institute of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is the author of Missionary Politics in Contemporary Europe (2007), The Struggle for the World (co-authored with Charles Lindholm, 2010), and The Identitarians (2018).
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    ISBN: 9783031225048
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 334 p. 8 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; World politics. ; Political sociology. ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: A third road in Eastern Europe? -- Chapter 2. The interdependence of socialist Hungary’s external and internal balances: The bridge model and the consolidation of the Kádár era (Tamás Gerőcs and András Pinkasz) -- Chapter 3. The neoliberalism as a legal project in state socialist Hungary (Attila Antal) -- Chapter 4. Dance around a “sacred cow”: Women’s night work and the gender politics of the mass worker in state-socialist Hungary and internationally (Susan Zimmermann) -- Chapter 5. Emancipated or excluded?: Women workers and the gender regime in state socialist Hungary (Eszter Bartha) -- Part II: System change and the alternatives -- Chapter 6. System change and property relations: On Soviet perestroika’s historical experiences (Tamás Krausz) -- Chapter 7. The rise and fall of red Halas, 1944–2019 (Chris Hann) -- Part III: The new canon -- Chapter 8. Imagining state socialism in Slovakia after 1989: Public discourse and history education practices (Slávka Otčenášová) -- Chapter 9. Between goulash Communism and dictatorship: The image of the Hungarian state socialism in secondary school textbooks (published after 1990) (Bálint Mezei) -- Part IV: Concluding Essays -- Chapter 10. The socialist transition in the materialist view of history and the state socialist systems (György Wiener) -- Chapter 11. State socialist experiments – Historical lessons (Péter Szigeti).
    Abstract: This volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to address the long theoretical, conceptual and political debate on the interpretation of “actually existing” socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. While the major paradigms – totalitarianism, neo-totalitarianism, revisionism, post-revisionism, modernization, and the world-system analysis – are well known in the Western (English-language) literature, the concept of state socialism, which has strong theoretical roots in Hungary (going back to the works of György Lukács and István Mészáros) received less international attention. This book contributes to a productive discussion about viable alternatives to capitalism by introducing and theoretically elaborating on the concept and practice of state socialism, highlighting the historical significance of Hungary’s experiment with the “new economic mechanism” of 1968. It generates a common point of reference for various generations of anti-systemic thinkers, scholars, and activists to move beyond Cold War simplifications and ideological divides, and contributes to the discussion about anti-capitalist alternatives, which are relevant today for the global left. The chapter “Dance Around a ‘Sacred Cow’: Women’s Night Work and the Gender Politics of the Mass Worker in State-Socialist Hungary and Internationally” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Eszter Bartha is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. She has published extensively on the state socialist era and the working class. Tamás Krausz is Professor Emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He is an internationally renowned scholar of the Soviet and Russian history in the 20th century, with a special focus on the history of left-wing ideas. Bálint Mezei is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. The main subjects of his publications are the interparty relations of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, Eurocommunism and studies based on oral history. .
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    ISBN: 9783031463792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 219 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Political sociology. ; Human rights. ; Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration
    Abstract: 1 Researching the links between police, politics, immigration and crime -- 2 Police, politics, immigration and crime: A state of the art -- 3 The crime that travels -- 4 The language of the numbers -- 5 Mean streets -- 6 Violence -- 7 Change of attitudes -- 8 The role of politics -- 9 Vulnerability.
    Abstract: This book examines the relationship between immigration, crime, police and politics in the city of Buenos Aires during the Cambiemos ("Let's Change") administration, which took place in Argentina between 2015 and 2019. It draws on semi-structured interviews with migrants to offer insights into interactions between police and migrants, narratives of police violence, police attitudes towards migrants, the nexus between police and politics and the perception of the vulnerability of the migratory community of belonging to police action. Using a mixed methods approach, it also draws on secondary quantitative data regarding police practices of detention of migrants and examines political discourses around the immigration-crime association. In essence, it discusses the changes in attitude of the police towards different ethnic-national groups during the administration Cambiemos. In this sense, it presents empirical research and methodological insights from the Global South. Federico Luis Abiuso is Postdoctoral Fellow at Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral, in Social Sciences (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Professor of Social Research Methodology at the University of Buenos Aires and University of Belgrano, Argentina.
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    ISBN: 9783031371820
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 351 p. 15 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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    Keywords: Crime ; Community development. ; Social service. ; Welfare state. ; Family policy. ; Critical criminology. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Section 1: defining the poverty issue.-1 Introduction -- 2 Defining Poverty -- 3 A History of Poverty -- 4 The Stigmatisation of Poverty -- 5 Families in poverty -- 6 Addictions, Sexual Exploitation and Poverty -- 7 Poverty as a Public Health and Community Safety Concern -- 8 Welfare Reform: A Solution or Driver of Poverty? -- 9 Supply and demand: the need for debt advice specialists and how we create them -- 10 Poverty and precarious work -- 11 Lived experience of prison and probation and employment challenges -- 12 Experiencing homelessness and attempts to eliminate homelessness -- 13 Seeking asylum and refuge -- 14 Carbon pathways: The interplay between Poverty and climate change in the UK -- Section 2: anti-poverty work examples -- 15 The Hull We Want -- 16 The role Children’s Hospices can play in tackling poverty in the UK -- 17 Addressing children’s food poverty in a rural county -- 18 Trussell Trust – food poverty and Jo Hill Joanna Ralphs-Hill -- 19 Addressing digital poverty through community engagement -- 20 Housing First in England – an uncertain future -- 21 Preventing food poverty: light at the end of the tunnel? 22. 'Period poverty’ in Stoke-on-Trent, UK: new insights into gendered poverty and the lived experiences of austerity -- 23 Raising Voices: Acting against poverty through lived experiences and creativity -- 24 Insight through experience: Who decides what positive practice looks like? -- 25 Faith Based Work to Tackle Poverty -- 26 The 100 Year Plan: Planning for Change, Long Term -- 27 Visioning for the Future. .
    Abstract: “The book will appeal to academics across the social sciences, as well as policymakers and practitioners grappling notions and experiences of poverty and hardship. I applaud the editors in bringing together such a rich mix of contributing authors with different backgrounds and life-trajectories, which has resulted in a brilliant toolbox-offering of lived experiences from some places, with lessons for other places.” -Professor Martin Jones, VC of Staffordshire University, UK Action on Poverty in the UK is an original and significant statement on the lived experiences of contemporary capitalism. Edited by academics at Staffordshire University with a shared and important project of co-production and participatory practice, this book is the start of the action on poverty conversation—a conversation that covers novel conceptual, methodological, political and policy strands. It is grounded in the real-world struggles and strategies of social and economic development. This book speaks to academics and professionals working on the anti-poverty agenda and to students in Sociology, Criminology, Law, Politics, Social Welfare Law, Social Work, Community Development, Community Nursing and Public Health. Sarah Page is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and teaches on the MA Leadership in Action on Poverty, at Staffordshire University, UK. Martin Coates is Lecturer on the MA Leadership in Action on Poverty, and Social Welfare Law, Policy and Advice Practice degree at Staffordshire University, UK. Martin has over 20 years of experience of working social welfare field of law, policy and advice. Julie Tipping is Senior Lecturer and the Course Leader for the MA Leadership in Action on Poverty at Staffordshire University, UK; she also teaches on the Social Welfare Law, Policy and Advice Practice degree. Juliette Frangos is Senior Lecturer at Staffordshire University, UK, and Course Leader for the Certificate of Credit in Money Advice Practice; she also teaches on the MA Leadership in Action on Poverty and the Social Welfare Law, Policy and Advice Practice degree. Katy Goldstraw is Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care at Staffordshire University, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031321726
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 361 p. 12 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Frontiers of Globalization
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    Keywords: Environmental policy. ; Political sociology. ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography.
    Abstract: Part I: Theorizing and Contextualizing Extractive Bargains -- Chapter 1:Extractive Bargains and the State-Society Nexus: One World, Many Bargains -- Chapter 2: From Extractivism to Sustainability: Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America -- Chapter 3: Extractive Bargains and Indigenous Peoples: A Comparative Perspective -- Part II: Global North Case Studies -- Chapter 4: The Legacy of Sweden’s Social Democratic State for Extractive Bargains with Indigenous Sami Reindeer Herding Communities -- Chapter 5: Extractive Settler Colonialism: Navigating Extractive Bargains on Indigenous Territories in Canada -- Chapter 6: Self-government and Resource Extraction in Greenland: From Independence to Diverse Bargains? -- Chapter 7: Keeping Oil in the Soil: National Bans on Oil Extraction as the Future of Global Climate Policy? -- Part III: Global South Case Studies -- Chapter 8: Extractive Policies in Mexico under López Obrador: Bargains for Whom? -- Chapter 9: Colombia: Contradictions of the Territorial Peace Extractive Bargain -- Chapter 10: Embedding Extractive Industries in Local Communities: The Chinese State’s Response to the Local Resource Curse -- Chapter 11: Creating a Gender-Sensitive Extractive Bargain in Tanzania through Local Content and Women’s Economic Empowerment -- Chapter 12: Contradictions of Privatized Developmentalist Bargains: Offshore Petroleum Extraction and Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana -- Chapter 13: Extractive Bargains Reconciling Postcolonial Pluralism? Plural Economies in Bolivia and Ecuador -- Part: IV Beyond the National: Bargains at Other Scales -- Chapter 14: Global Extractive Bargains for Green New Deals -- Chapter 15: Conclusion: Debates and Extractive Bargains at Different Scales.
    Abstract: “This impressive volume takes a deep dive into the ways states design and promote ‘extractive bargains’, exposing the search for a (post)extractive consensus within fluid state-society relations. A must-read on resource governance, supply security, and climate politics.” —Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton “The book makes a major contribution to the burgeoning study of extractivisms, and illustrates in detail how extractive bargains in the state-society nexus do not have a singular or predetermined outcome.” —Barry K. Gills, Professor of Global Development Studies, Helsinki University, Finland “Through a collaborative methodology, Andrews, Bowles and volume contributors offer a conceptually innovative typology of the kinds of conditions that facilitate, normalize and constrict extractive activities within and between states … Highly recommended!” —Anna Zalik, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada This book is the first to focus on state-led ‘extractive bargains,’ designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how they should be governed and their negative consequences mitigated. These state-led ‘bargains’ have taken a number of different forms and offer varying degrees of promise in meeting environmental and social concerns. The book critically examines ‘bargains’ in states across the Global North and the Global South, incorporates Indigenous issues, and judiciously assesses their prospects for promoting long-term sustainability. It focusses on mineral and fossil fuel extraction in particular including bargains designed to govern the former as the demand for minerals used in “green energy” increases and to limit the use of the latter. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of global studies, global political economy, political science, political sociology, sustainability, environmental sociology, development studies and geography. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Paul Bowles is Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Nathan Andrews is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada. .
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    ISBN: 9783031131271
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 701 p. 35 illus., 18 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Women—History. ; World history. ; Identity politics. ; Labor. ; History. ; Social history. ; Political sociology. ; Women
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Towards a Global History of Communist Women; Francisca de Haan -- Part I: Global Foremothers -- 2. Clara Zetkin (1857–1933): A Rebel Building the Socialist and Communist International Women's Movements; Florence Hervé -- 3. Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952): Communism as the Only Way Towards Women’s Liberation; Natalia Novikova and Kristen Ghodsee -- 4. A Right to be Radical: Claudia Jones (1915–1964) and the “Super-Exploitation of the Black Woman"; Carole Boyce Davies -- Part II: Europe -- 5. Helen Crawfurd (1877–1954): Scottish Suffragette and International Communist; Kiera Wilkins -- 6. Ana Pauker (1893–1960): The Infamous Romanian Woman Communist Leader; Stefan Bosomitu and Luciana Jinga -- 7. Dolores Ibárruri, Pasionaria (1895–1989): Communist Woman of Steel, Global Icon; Mercedes Yusta Rodrigo -- 8. Teresa Noce (1900–1980): A Communist “Professional Revolutionary” in Twentieth-Century Italy; Eloisa Betti and Debora Migliucci -- 9. Edwarda Orłowska (1906–1977): A Story of Communist Activism in Poland Told in Words and Silences; Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz -- 10. Nina Vasilievna Popova (1908–1994): “Woman in the Land of Socialism”; Alexandra Talaver -- Part III: Asia -- 11. Deng Yingchao (1904–1992): A Feminist Leader in the Chinese Communist Party; Wang Zheng -- 12. Pak Chŏng-ae: From Red Labor Unions to the Korean Democratic Women’s Union; Suzy Kim -- 13. Iijima Aiko (1932–2005): A Feminist’s Fight Against Discrimination in Japan; Akiko Takenaka -- 14. Nguyễn Thị Bình (b. 1927): “The Flower and Fire of the Revolution”; An Thuy Nguyen -- 15. Umi Sardjono (1923–2011) and the Quest to Build a New Society for Indonesian Women; Katharine McGregor and Ruth Indiah Rahayu -- 16. Behice Boran (1910–1987): A Committed Communist Woman in Cold War Turkey; Sercan Çınar -- Part IV: Africa and the Middle East -- 17. Naziha al-Dulaimi (1923–2007) and the Anticolonial Struggle in Iraq; Noga Efrati -- 18. “Not Only the Country’s Independence, Mine Too!” Arlette Bourgel, an Algerian Jewish Communist (b. 1928); Pierre-Jean Le Foll-Luciani -- 19. Aoua Keita (1912–1980): Anti-Colonial Activist, Nationalist Politician, and Feminist in Mali (West Africa); Pascale Barthélémy and Ophélie Rillon -- Part V: Oceania -- 20. “A Key Person Internationally”: Freda Brown (1919–2009), Australian Activist; Lisa Milner -- 21. Dancing for the Revolution: Rona Bailey, New Zealand Artist Activist (1914–2005); Cybèle Locke -- Part 6: The Americas -- 22. Jeanne Corbin (1906–1944): A Canadian Communist Militant in a Man’s World; Andrée Lévesque -- 23. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964): Mortal Enemy of Capitalism; Lara Vapnek -- 24. Gachita Amador (1891–1961), Between Two Loves: Communist Action and Guignol Theater; Verónica Oikión Solano -- 25. Vilma Espín (1930–2007): Forging a New Woman Within the Cuban Revolution; Ailynn Torres Santana and Michelle Chase -- 26. “When My Life Goes Out ...” Biography of the Argentinian Communist Activist Fanny Edelman (1911–2011); Adriana Valobra and Natalia Casola.
    Abstract: This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women’s emancipation and national liberation. By using the lens of transnational political biography, the chapters capture the broader picture of these women’s lives, unpacking the links between the so-called public and private, the power structures and inequalities of their societies, the formal networks and politics in which they were involved, and the informal connections and friendships that supported their activism both at the national and international level. Challenging androcentric and Eurocentric narratives about communism, this Handbook reveals the active and significant roles of women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century communist movements and regimes, and highlights the importance of communist women in shaping the agenda for women’s rights worldwide.
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    ISBN: 9783031291876
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVIII, 337 p. 70 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Elections. ; Communication in politics. ; Political sociology. ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Holding Europe Accountable Nationally -- Chapter 2: News vs. Opinion Articles on the European Union. The politicization of the EU in the mainstream press -- Chapter 3: Parties acting Strategically: National Parliaments’ role in holding the EU Accountable -- Chapter 4: Polity or Policies? The European Union in Parliamentary debates and the media -- Chapter 5: Experimental Evidence of EU issue voting -- Chapter 6: The Left-Right dimension, Europe and Voting in Bailout Europe -- Chapter 7: EU issue voting in simultaneous elections: The case of Belgium -- Chapter 8: The importance of EU issues in German elections -- Chapter 9: After the crisis: EU issue voting in Greece -- Chapter 10: Salient but not polarized: The role of the EU in the Irish electoral arena -- Chapter 11: Portugal: EU issue voting in Mainstream and Challenger Parties -- Chapter 12: A broken national consensus? EU issue voting and the radical right in Spain -- Chapter 13: Consequences of EU Politicisation for Voting in National Elections. .
    Abstract: “This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how the European Union influences national politics and how the national response to Europe can serve as a channel of accountability in the European Union. The authors engage fundamental questions relating to national elections and European issues with an eye to explaining the dynamics of EU political support and opposition in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. The authors come to grips with these questions using extensive original data on EU coverage in the national media, parliamentary debates, and online surveys. In short, this volume is a signal contribution to our understanding of EU politicization.” -- Gary Marks, Burton Craige Professor, UNC Chapel Hill, USA, and Professor, Robert Schuman Centre, EUI, Italy. This open access book focuses on the importance that EU politicization has gained in European democracies and the consequences for voting behaviour in six countries of the EU: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Most of the studies which research the way the EU is being legitimised focus on the European Parliament elections. In this book we argue that to understand how EU accountability works, it is necessary to focus instead on national elections and the national political environment. Through a detailed, multimethod analysis this book establishes rigorously the paths of European accountability at the national level, its propitious contexts in the media and parliamentary debates, and whether the paths are similar from Greece to Germany. The findings have implications for both national and European Union democracy, underlining the importance that national institutions have in enabling citizens to hold the EU accountable. Marina Costa Lobo is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal, and Director of the European Political Science Review.
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    ISBN: 9783030844516
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 252 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022
    Series Statement: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
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    Keywords: Motion pictures. ; Sociology. ; Queer theory. ; Political sociology. ; Sex. ; Russland ; LGBT ; Filmwirtschaft ; Aktivismus
    Abstract: Introduction -- Transnational spaces of resistance -- Transforming conditions of feminist and LGBTI+ activism -- Solidarities across. Borders, belongings, movements -- Spaces of appearance and the right to appear. Transnational aspects of March 8 in local bodily assemblies -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common? And what can actors who struggle for rights and justice in these contexts learn from each other? Based on a multisited ethnography of feminist and LGBTI+ activisms across Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries, this Open Access book explores transnational struggles on various levels, from the micro-scale of the everyday to large-scale, spectacular events. Drawing on ethnographic insights and encounters from various sites, this book conceptualizes resistance as situated in the grey zone between barely perceptible, even hidden or covert, forms of mundane activist practices and highly visible street protests, gathering large crowds. Taking the reader beyond the dichotomies of visible/invisible and public/private, this book advances new understandings of resistance, solidarity, and activism in transnationalizing feminist and queer struggles, illustrated by rich ethnographic case studies from Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey. Selin Çağatay is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History, Central European University, Austria. Mia Liinason is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Lund, Sweden Olga Sasunkevich is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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    ISBN: 9783031099052
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 239 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political sociology. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Youth Political Participation in Greece: A Comparative, Multiple Methods -- Perspective -- Part I: Youth Political Participation: Socialization, Attitudes and Intentions -- Chapter 2: Young Greeks Taking to the Streets: How Protest Shapes Political Socialisation in Times of Crisis? -- Chapter 3: Engendering Political Participation among Greek Youth in Times of Crisis -- Chapter 4: Youths’ Cultural Orientations, Attributions to Inequality and Political Engagement Attitudes and Intentions -- Part II: Youth Political Participation: Precarity, Organizational and Spatial Aspects -- Chapter 5: Youth Political Participation and Precarity during Times of Crisis: Greece in a Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 6: For Youth or by Youth? Exploring Youth Action Organisations in Greece -- Chapter 7: Political Participation of Greek Youth: Exploring Rural, Semi-urban and Urban Disparities -- Chapter 8: Conclusions: Modes and Determinants of Youth Political Participation in Greece from a Multiple Methods Perspective.
    Abstract: “This volume shines a light on the vitality of Greek young people's political participation, including in institutional and protest politics…This is a critical work for scholars interested in the variety of young people’s political experiences in Europe today.” —Jennifer Earl, Professor of Sociology & (by courtesy) Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona, USA “This book provides the first comprehensive account on the changing nature of youth political participation in Greece, with the use of an extensive material and a multi methods perspective.” —Manina Kakepaki, Principal Researcher, Institute of Political Research, National Centre for Social Research, Greece “A must read for any academic, practitioner or organization interested in Greek youth’s political engagement. It provides with a comprehensive overview of the forms, patters, and recent changes in youth participation in the aftermath of the Great Recession...I highly recommend it!” — Gema García Albacete, Associate Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and research fellow at the IC3JM, Spain The overarching aim of this edited volume is to investigate different modes, patterns and determinants of youth political participation in Greece, since the economic crisis, by incorporating a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods. The chapters examine different forms of youth political participation, from institutionalized (such as voting, or membership in political parties) to non-institutionalized (such as signing petitions, protesting through demonstrations or occupations, and political consumerism). Moreover, the chapters shed light on diverse aspects of youth political participation, such as the interlinkages between occupational precarity and political behaviour, the spatial portrait of youth political engagement in rural, suburban and urban Greek contexts, the engendered aspects of political involvement, the pivotal role of protest events in youth political socialization and in mobilization in contentious political actions, the different impacts of priming inequality on youth’s political beliefs, depending on different modes of thinking, as well as the key features of youth-related and youth-led (non-state) organisations operating in Greece. The aforementioned aspects are examined at the micro, meso or/and macro level through distinct methodological approaches including panel survey, experimental survey, biographical interviews, in-depth interviews and action organization analysis, carried out in the context of the EURYKA (European Commission) project. Stefania Kalogeraki is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Crete, Greece. Maria Kousis is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Crete, Greece. .
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    ISBN: 9783031153976
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XLV, 704 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Political science. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Fourth Republic and 1992 Constitution of Ghana: Grounding Democracy, Rule of Law and Development -- Chapter 2: Imperial President and Constitutionalism under the 1992 Constitution of Ghana -- Part II: Ghana’s Fourth Republic: Democracy, Rule of Law and Development -- Chapter 3: Reflections on Public Interest Constitutional Litigation of the Government of Ghana’s Economic Transactions with Private Parties -- Chapter 4: Protection of Privacy of Communication and the Admissibility of Electronic Evidence: An Assessment of the Supreme Court's Guidelines -- Chapter 5: Balancing the Freedom of Expression, Right to Information and Use of Social Media in Ghana -- Chapter 6: Examining the Regulatory Character and Constitutional Validity of the Bank of Ghana’s Directives to Actors in the Banking Sector -- Part III: Inclusive Development and Securing the Rights of Minorities Under Ghana’s Fourth Republic -- Chapter 7: Connecting Disability Rights and Democracy in Ghana: Leveraging on the UN Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter 8: Balancing Religious Freedoms and the Right to Education of Minorities in Ghana: A Focus on Access to Public Senior High Schools by Rastafarians -- Chapter 9: Gendered Power Relationships and Inequality in Northern Ghana -- Chapter 10: Majoritarian Democracy and the LGBT Conundrum in Ghana -- Part IV: Constitutional Law, Institutions and Governance in Ghana -- Chapter 11: Safeguarding the Independence of Autonomous Constitutional Bodies in Ghana -- Chapter 12: Redefining the Jurisdiction of Commissions of Inquiry under the 1992 Constitution of Ghana -- Chapter 13: The Contribution of Strong Institutions in Promoting Good Governance in Ghana -- Chapter 14: Police Brutality and Violence Against Liberian Refugees and Migrants in Ghana: Assessing the Role of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice -- Chapter 15: Devolution and the Transformation of Ghana’s Local Government Law towards a Functional Decentralized Governance System -- Chapter 16: The Contribution of the International Community to Peaceful Elections in Ghana -- Part V: Democratization, Good Governance and Development in Africa -- Chapter 17: Economic development, Democratization and the Rule of Law in Ghana and Nigeria -- Chapter 18: Constitutional Design and the Realisation of Human Rights in Botswana: Challenges and Prospects -- Chapter 19: Rule of Law and Human Rights during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa: Reflections from Ghana -- Chapter 20: Violence against Women and the Quest for a Sustainable Solution in Africa: Reflections on Rediscovery of the Due Diligence Standard -- Chapter 21: Assets Declaration as a Tool to Combat Corruption in Africa -- Part VI: Governing the Environment, Climate Change and Social Challenges in Africa -- Chapter 22: Climate change and human rights in Africa: A New factor in African Union Policymaking -- Chapter 23: Domestication of International Law on the Environment and Climate Change in Ghana: Challenges and Prospects -- Chapter 24: Climate Change and Clean Energy Generation in Ghana: Reflections on the Regulatory and Investment Frameworks -- Chapter 25: The Role of the Environmental Protection Agency under Ghana’s Fourth Republic.
    Abstract: This volume analyses democratic governance, the rule of law and development in Africa. It is unique and timely. First, the theme and sub-themes were carefully selected to solicit quality chapters from academics, practitioners and graduate students on topical and contemporary issues in constitutional law, human rights, and democratic governance in Africa. The chapters were subjected to a single-blind peer review by experts and scholars in the relevant fields to ensure that high quality submissions are included. Due to the dearth of knowledge and studies on the chosen thematic areas, the publication will remain relevant after several years due to the timeless themes it covers. In this regard, this edited volume audits the progress of democratic consolidation, rule of law and development in Ghana with selected case studies from other African countries. This book is intended for higher education institutions (universities, institutes and centres), public libraries, general academics, practitioners and students of law, democracy, human rights and political science, especially those interested in African affairs. Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom is a lecturer of law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and the Research and Innovation Lead at the Institute for African Women in Law, USA. Michael Addaney is a lecturer in planning and environmental policy at the Department of Planning and Sustainability of University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana, and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Public Management and Governance at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Lydia A. Nkansah is an Associate Professor and Former Dean at the Faculty of Law, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
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    ISBN: 9783031181849
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 396 p.)
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    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Simmel, Georg ; Benjamin, Walter ; Cities and towns ; Sociology, Urban ; Civilization, Modern Philosophy ; Marxian school of sociology. ; Political sociology. ; Sociology. ; Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Simmel, Georg 1858-1918 ; Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940 ; Großstadt ; Moderne ; Soziologische Theorie
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Investigating Postmodernity through Modernity. -- 2. Metropolis as general Form of Modernity -- 3. Georg Simmel’s Theory of Knowledge -- 4. Sociological Aesthetic of Modernity.-5. Metropolis, Money and the Style of Modern Life -- 6. Metropolization of Social Life: How is Society Possible? -- 7. What is The Arcades Project? -- 8. Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Knowledge -- 9. The Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Benjamin on Commodity Fetishism -- 10. Benjamin and Baudelaire as the lyric poet in the age of mature capitalism -- 11. Metropolis as Tragedy, Metropolis as Trauerspiel -- .
    Abstract: This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of George Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses in on five main topics: the historical-sociological method through which they investigate modernity; how are the concepts of history and society possible; the consequences of modern metropolis on the construction of individual subjectivity; the aestheticization of everyday life caused by the expansion of commodity culture; the female culture as a counter-power to the domination of masculine objective culture. In the decades since Simmel and Benjamin, urban reality has undergone profound changes and we may even question the very existence of the subject of analysis: what is the city, the metropolis in today’s context of globalization and capital flows? Simmel’s and Benjamin’s metropolis has thus become an “endless city”, beyond the physical and geographical confines of urban reality.
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    ISBN: 9783031124747
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 318 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Marxian school of sociology. ; Sociology. ; Political sociology. ; Social structure. ; Equality.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. From the Criticism of Collective Action Theories to the Study of the Political Composition of Class -- Chapter 3. Working-Class Formation, Social Forces and Collective Action -- Chapter 4. Moving Beyond the Toolbox: Providing Social Movements Studies with a Materialist Dialectical Lens -- Chapter 5. The Denial of Social Classes in the Theories of Collective Action and the New Social Movements -- Chapter 6. On dignity. Reflections on the rationality of insurrectional actions -- Chapter 7. A Marxist Perspective on Worker’s Collective Action -- Chapter 8. Theories on Strikes and Social Movement Theory -- Chapter 9. Gramsci Theorist of Political Subjetivation -- Chapter 10. Revolts of the Stagnant Reserve Army of Labor -- Chapter 11. Being on the Side of Workers -- Chapter 12. On the Old and New Mental Maps of the Working Class Formation.
    Abstract: This book makes a relevant contribution to a Marxist critical explanation of social conflicts, social movements and protests. There is abundant literature on social conflict and social movements from Marxist perspectives. However, rigorous criticism, both theoretical and methodological, is scarce. The objective of this volume is the collection of works developing a critical reflection on the categories of theories about contentious collective action and social movements from a Marxist perspective. In order to better understand these phenomena and go beyond their mere case description, the theory needs to be improved. To that end, the book also promotes the debate between Marxisms and the collective action and new social movements in a renewed way. Here different Marxist arguments consider not only their methodological and ideological bias, but also the specific conceptual contributions of those theories. Adrián Piva is Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Researcher at the National Council of Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET). Agustín Santella is Researcher at National Council of Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET) and Graduate Professor at University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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    ISBN: 9783031073458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 504 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Biotechnology. ; Political sociology. ; Social structure. ; Equality. ; Sociolinguistics.
    Abstract: 1. Pierre Bourdieu’s perspective and the problem of dependence: empires, colonies and peripheries -- 2. The field of power in the condition of stateless / post-colonial / space -- 3. The Polish field of power since 1900 – reading history relationally -- 4. The Polish social sciences field in a global context -- 5. A relational history of Polish linguistics since 1900 -- 6. Discourse analysis and the logic of fields of power in Poland. .
    Abstract: This book revisits the modern history of Poland, from the perspective of its social sciences. The book makes this case study a model for the application of Bourdieu’s approach to the historical analysis of non-core Western societies. The book is, in other words, a reflexive study of the application of Bourdieu’s social theory. At the same time, it also critically studies the application of Western social theory in Poland, which is largely seen as a peripheral country. The study of Polish social sciences, with particular emphasis on linguistics and literary studies, points to the peculiar dynamics of peripheral intellectual and academic fields and their external dependencies. These insights offer a critical extension of Bourdieu’s theory of state and social elites beyond the Western core focusing on how the theories can be used in the reinterpretation and expansion of post-colonial theory, global history and comparative studies of post-communism. The book will be suitable for scholars and students of all those interested in the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu, global historical sociology, societies in Central and Eastern , socio-linguistics, literary studies and political sociology. .
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    ISBN: 9783030944070
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 307 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Criminology. ; Peace. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Authoritarianism and Past Atrocity in Mexico, 1929-2000 -- Chapter 2. Transitional Justice: A Field of Practice and Knowledge -- Chapter 3. Neither Inevitable, Nor Necessary: The Emergence of Mexico’s Transitional Justice Process -- Chapter 4. Making Up Transitional Justice: Defining, Classifying, and Acting on Past Human Rights Abuses -- Chapter 5. The Retributive Goals of the Special Prosecutor’s Office: A De Facto Amnesty -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book critically examines transitional justice in Mexico. It explores how the Mexican democratic regime dealt with the grave human rights violations perpetrated by security forces during the authoritarian era (1929-2000) through a Special Prosecutor’s Office. It offers a complete account of the diverse factors that facilitated the emergence (and policing) of Mexico's transitional justice process. Whilst transitional justice should contribute to the advancement of liberal democracy and, consequently, generate the following benefits: truth, justice, political reconciliation, peace, this book argues that Mexico is a case of transitional injustice. It is an example of how in some societies transitional justice mechanisms are intentionally implemented in ways that, instead of generating justice, produce impunity. It seems to make important contributions to some of the broader debates addressed by scholars on transitional justice and give them reason to re-examine transitional justice processes in other countries in a new light. Javier Trevino-Rangel is Associate Professor in the Centre of Research and Literary Studies of Aguascalientes at the University of the Arts of Aguascalientes, Mexico. He’s also visiting fellow in the Department of Sociology at LSE, UK. He has been Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK, and Assistant Professor in the Drugs Policy Programme at the Center of Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Aguascalientes, Mexico. His research interests include: human rights discourses and atrocities, narratives of violence, and justice in contemporary Mexico.
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    ISBN: 9783030977412
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 134 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Development, justice and citizenship
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    Keywords: Africa—Politics and government. ; Citizenship—Study and teaching. ; Political sociology. ; Political psychology. ; Political science. ; Economic development. ; Politisches Verhalten ; Sozialverhalten ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Politische Beteiligung ; Motivation ; Ursache ; Demokratie ; Fallstudie ; Ghana
    Abstract: Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 – Literature on Civic Engagement -- Chapter 3 – Measuring Civic Engagement -- Chapter 4 – Demographics -- Chapter 5 – Sense of Community -- Chapter 6 – Trust -- Chapter 7 – Political Knowledge -- Chapter 8 – Personality -- Chapter 9 – Women -- Chapter 10 – Community Engagement, Civic Education, and Democratic Governance.
    Abstract: This book explores how community influences civic engagement, focusing on the case of Ghana. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective to those studying psychology, political development and civic engagement in African countries. Previous research has shown that the social and economic context in which an individual interacts influences their political behaviors and attitudes, and that personal characteristics account for differences in political behavior and attitudes. This work moves away from the cultural demographics of a person, which often take center stage in existing investigations of partisan political behavior in the African context, and addresses the following five questions:(1) To what extent do individual traits influence civic engagement in Ghana? (2) To what extent is community identity similar or different in small rural villages versus large metropolitan areas in Ghana and how does community identity influence civic engagement? (3) To what extent does trust influence civic engagement in Ghana? (4) What factors and activities influence political knowledge and how does political knowledge influence civic engagement? (5) What is the status of women in civic engagement? Mary R. Anderson is Professor Political Science at the University of Tampa, Florida, where she specializes in research on public opinion and civic engagement. Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, Political Behavior, Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, and the Journal of Human Rights. She is the author of Community Identity and Political Behavior (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and co-author/co-editor of Meta-Analysis for Public Management and Policy (2013). She teaches courses on public opinion, public policy, and political psychology Kevin S. Fridy is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tampa, Florida. He specializes in West African politics and works on projects dealing with the interactions between society and political institutions. His work has been published in African studies and political science journals such as Journal of Modern African Studies, Democratization, African Affairs, African Studies Quarterly, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and Journal of African Elections. He has traveled extensively throughout West Africa conducting his research. He teaches courses on African politics, as well as a travel course to Ghana with a focus on political and economic develop development.
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    ISBN: 9783030941635
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 130 p. 4 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: French Politics, Society and Culture
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Facing terrorism in France
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political sociology. ; Sociology. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Frankreich ; Islam ; Fundamentalismus ; Terrorismus ; Attentat ; Geschichte 2015-2016
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction (Florence Faucher and Gérôme Truc) -- Chapter 2. At the Centre of the Attack: from Individual Fear to Mutual Assistance (Guillaume Dezecache) -- Chapter 3. Out in the Street: Ephemeral Memorials to Express Mourning (Maëlle Bazin) -- Chapter 4. On Television: Journalists Caught between Rival Demands (Pierre Lefébure and Claire Sécail) -- Chapter 5. On the Internet: From Conflicting Values to Counter-Publics (Romain Badouard) -- Chapter 6. In the Schools: Bringing Pupils into the National Community of Mourning (Sébastien Ledoux) -- Chapter 7. French Muslims: A Silent Community? (Vincent Geisser) -- Chapter 8. At the Upper Echelons of the State: Symbols to Build National Unity (Laurie Boussaguet and Florence Faucher) -- Chapter 9. In People’s minds: An Authoritarian Dynamic or the Spread of Tolerance? (Vincent Tiberj) -- Chapter 10. Social sciences in a time of terror (Gérôme Truc).
    Abstract: “France has been the target of more terrorist attacks than any other Western country. In this major contribution to the burgeoning new field of ‘terrorism studies’, these attacks are subjected to intense social scientific analysis.” – Jolyon Howorth, Harvard University, USA “This timely and important volume presents a compelling analysis of terrorism's impacts and the responses needed to counteract these effects.” – Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University, USA “Taking a very original perspective, this precious collection investigates the learning and healing processes that followed the Charlie Hebdo’s attacks.” – Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy “This fine, wide-ranging collection on the 2015 Paris attacks takes stock of what we know while charting future directions of research.” – Stéphane Gerson, New York University, USA “By bringing together perspectives from political science, sociology, psychology, and media studies, the editors produce the most complete treatment of a society’s reaction to these horrific events that I have seen.” – Marc J. Hetherington, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA From Charlie Hebdo to the Bataclan, the terrorist attacks perpetrated in Paris in 2015 shocked France and the world. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary approach on the complex responses of French society to these events: from the individual level (survivors of the Bataclan attack, emotional citizens paying homage to the victims, French Muslims) to the meso level of civic association and web communities, and the macro level of the State and public opinion. Florence Faucher is Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris, France and Associate Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK. Gérôme Truc is Research Fellow in Sociology at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He is the author of Shell Shocked: The Social Response to Terrorist Attacks (2018).
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    ISBN: 9783030842772
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIX, 255 p. 6 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cornwell, David J. Prisons, politics and practices in England and Wales 1945-2020
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-2020 ; Corrections. ; Punishment. ; Criminology. ; Legislative bodies. ; Political sociology. ; Public policy. ; Political science. ; Strafjustiz ; Strafvollzug ; Politisches System ; England ; Wales
    Abstract: Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE – PRISONS AND PENOLOGY: A SURVEY OF POST-WAR ENGLAND AND WALES 1945-2020 -- Chapter 1 – Change and Uncertainty in Penal Strategies 1945-1991 -- Chapter 2 – Prisons, Managerialism & Privatisation 1991-1997 -- Chapter 3 – Re-Branding the ‘TOC’ Image: New Labour 1997-2007 -- Chapter 4 – Penality and the Ministry of Justice Era 2007-2020 -- PART TWO – A VISION FOR PRISONS OF THE FUTURE -- Chapter 5 – Strategic Management of Prisons: Structure & Style -- Chapter 6 – Towards ‘Doing Justice Better’ -- Chapter 7 – Making Prisons Fit for Purpose -- Chapter 8 – Beyond the Prison Walls -- Chapter 9 – Summation and Conclusions -- APPENDIX 1 – CRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CRIMINAL -- JUSTICE LEGISLATION, PRIME MINISTERS, HOME & JUSTICE SECRETARIES 1945-2020 -- APPENDIX 2 – COMMUNITY JUSTICE FORUMS – SUGGESTED COMPOSITION -- APPENDIX 3 – SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR SEMINAR -- DISCUSSION AND/OR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Abstract: This book presents both a survey of and commentary upon the penal process of England and Wales between 1945 and 2020 from the primary perspective of prisons and their operational management. Part I focusses on the extent to which governmental polities, changing concepts in penology and significant events affected the performance and management of prisons during four key periods: 1945-1991; 1991-1997; 1997-2007 and 2007-2020. Part II presents a vision for more effective operation of prisons within the wider penal process in the 2020s and beyond. It draws upon the author's academic insights and his experience as a former prison governor. This book speaks to those in the social sciences, law and politics and to professionals in government and in the penal system who are interested in reform. David J. Cornwell is former Prison Governor and Consultant Criminologist focusing predominantly on issues in penal philosophy, criminal punishment, restorative justice and mediation. He is the author of seven previous books in the fields of criminology, penology and philosophy. He completed both his Master’s and Doctoral degrees at York University, UK. .
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    ISBN: 9783030808037
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(xxviii, 700 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political sociology. ; World politics. ; Comparative politics. ; Populismus ; Politische Einstellung ; Politisches Verhalten ; Sozialverhalten ; Politische Kultur ; Ideologie ; Politisches System ; Handbuch ; Erde
    Abstract: Part I Populism : Introduction to & some Reflections on the Concept -- Chapter 1: The New Age of Populism – Reapproaching a Diffuse Concept -- Part II : Theoretical Critique -- Chapter 2: The Past and Present of Populism -- Chapter 3: Populism is Hegemony is Politics? Ernesto Laclau’s Theory of Populism -- Chapter 4: An Antipodean Populism? Winston Peters, New Zealand First, and the Problems of Misclassification -- Chapter 5: A Critique of Left-Wing Populism – Critical Materialist and Social-Psychological Perspectives -- Part III: The Political Psychology of Populism & its Affective Underpinnings -- Chapter 6: The Psychology of Populism -- Chapter 7: The Affective Underpinnings of Right-Wing Populist Party Support -- Chapter 8: From Specific Worries to Generalized Anger – The Emotional Dynamics of Right-Wing Populist Party Support -- Part IV: Authoritarian Populism & Fascism -- Chapter 9: Fascism and Populism -- Chapter 10: Populism and Authoritarianism -- Chapter 11: Authoritarian Populism and Collective Memory Manipulation -- Chapter 12: The (almost) Forgotten Elitist Sources of Right-Wing Populism -- Part V: Economic Populism, Inequality & Crises -- Chapter 13: Populism and the Economics of Antitrust -- Chapter 14: The Red Herring of ‘Economic Populism’ -- Chapter 15: Populist Mobilization in the United States: Adding Political Economy to Cultural Explanations -- Part VI: Populism & Gender -- Chapter 16: Right-Wing Populism and Gender -- Chapter 17: The Gendered Politics of Right-Wing Populism and Intersectional Feminist Contestations” -- Chapter 18: Popular Sovereignty and (Non)Recognition in Venezuela: On the Coming into Political Being of El Pueblo -- Part VII: New Populisms and Cleavages -- Chapter 19: Environmental Populism -- Chapter 20: Medical populism -- Chapter 21: Global Populism -- Chapter 22: Populism and the Cosmopolitan-Communitarian Divide -- Chapter 23: (Populism and) the Recasting of the Ideological Landscape of Liberal Democracies -- Part VIII: Populism Discourses -- Chapter 24: The Political Language of Islamic Populism -- Chapter 25: Populism, Anti-populism and Post-truth -- Chapter 26: Experience Narratives and Populist Rhetoric in US Congressional Primaries -- Chapter 27: The Framing of Right-Wing Populism. Intricacies of ‘Populist’ Narratives, Emotions, and Resonance -- Chapter 28: Populism and Collective memory -- Part IX: Populists in Office -- Chapter 29: Populism in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 30: Populism in Africa and the Anti-Corruption Trope in Nigeria’s Politics -- Chapter 31: Populism Under Former Liberation Movements as Governments in Southern Africa: The Cases of Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe -- Chapter 32: Venezuela- The Institutionalization of Authoritarian Populism -- Chapter 33: Populist Neo-Imperialism: A New Take on Populist Foreign Policy -- Part X: Strategic Populism & Societal Support -- Chapter 34: Populism as an Implementation of National Biopolitics. The Case of Poland -- Chapter 35:Understanding the Infiltration of Right-Wing Populist Positions Within Unsuspected Groups: The Case of Professional Social Workers -- Chapter 36: Clarifying our Populist Moment(s): Right-Wing and Left-Wing Populism in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election -- Part XI: Consequences of Populism & Anti-Populist Discourse -- Chapter 37: Polarization as a Result of Populism? Evidence from Plenary Debates in the Bundestag -- Chapter 38: The Enemy in my House: How Right-Wing Populism Shifted the Debate About Citizenship in France -- Chapter 39: The Democracy’s ‘Resolved’ Dilemma. A Theory of Turnout Inequality Reducing (Right) Populist Parties -- Chapter 40: Counter Strategies in Dealing with Populism.
    Abstract: This handbook assesses the phenomenon of populism – a concept frequently belabored, but often misunderstood in politics. Rising populism presents one of the great challenges for liberal democracies, but despite the large body of research, the larger picture remains elusive. This volume seeks to understand the causes and workings of modern-day populism, and plumb the depths of the fears and frustrations of people who have forsaken established parties. Although the main focus of this volume is political science, there are more disciplines represented in order to get a whole picture of the debate. It is comprised of strong empirical and theoretical papers that also bear social relevance. Michael Oswald is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Passau, Germany, and the author of Mobilization, Representation, and Responsiveness in the American Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
    Note: Tabellen, Literaturverzeichnisse, Literaturhinweise, Index
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    ISBN: 9783030824129
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 415 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
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    Keywords: Critical criminology. ; Civil law. ; Public safety. ; Human rights. ; Political sociology. ; Criminal law. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltkriminalität ; Umweltrecht ; Planet ; Menschenrecht ; Tierrecht ; Tierschutz ; Umweltverschmutzung ; Indigenes Volk
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1 - It Isn’t Easy Being Green: The Trials and Triumphs of the Green Criminology-Law Nexus -- Section I - Reconsidering Legal Actors and Institutional Mechanisms. Chapter 2 - Standard Concerns: An Examination of Public-Interest Considerations with Respect to Prosecutions of Environmental Advocates and Indigenous Land Defenders -- Chapter 3 - Green Criminology, Policing and Protecting the Environment -- Chapter 4 - Environmental Crime, Ecological Expertise and Specialist Environment Courts -- Chapter 5 - Standing Trial for Lily: How Open Rescue Activists Mobilize Their Criminal Prosecutions for Animal Liberation -- Section II - Challenging Legislation and Legal Regulations. Chapter 6 - Fish Farms in Canada: Where is the Law? -- Chapter 7 - Plastic: From Miracle Material to Detritus and Disaster: A History of Benefits, Harms, Pandemics and the Limitations of Regulation -- Chapter 8 - Criminalizing Environmentally Beneficial Activities: Hemp and Canada’s Cannabis Act -- Chapter 9 - Dirty Legislation for Dirty Work -- Section III - Retracing Legal Rights and Responsibilities. Chapter 10 - Palliative Animal Law: The War on Animal Cruelty -- Chapter 11 - Responsibility in End Time: Environmental Harm and the Role of Law in the Anthropocene -- Chapter 12 - Te Awa Tupua: An Exemplary Environmental Law? Sarah Monod de Froideville and Rebekah Bowling -- Chapter 13 - Mother Earth in Environmental Activism: Indigeneity, Maternal Thinking, and Animism in the Keystone Pipeline Debate -- Section IV - Future Directions for Green Criminology and Law. Chapter 14 - Widening the Scope of ‘Earth’ Jurisprudence and ‘Green’ Criminology? Towards Preserving Extra-Terrestrial Heritage Sites on Celestial Bodies -- Chapter 15 - Red, White and Green: White Paper Assimilation Strategies in an Era of Environmental Crisis -- Chapter 16 - Restorative Justice Conferencing: A Vehicle for Repairing Harm Emanating from Lawful but Awful Activity -- Chapter 17 - Green Criminology and an International Law Against Ecocide: Using Strict Liability and Superior Responsibility to Prevent State and Corporate Denial of Environmental Harms.
    Abstract: "This illuminating and invaluable collection draws together international and interdisciplinary contributors to explore the Green Criminology-Law nexus. Covering topics from plastics to policing, activism to ecocide, the chapters provide a survey of what we can learn and use as the basis for moving forward in education, politics and practice." —Nigel South, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex, UK. "Green Criminology and the Law is a fantastic collection of insightful chapters, all of which offer crucial theoretical and empirical insights on vitally important topics. A much needed intervention that will make the field even more relevant to students, scholars and the wider public in these times of ecological crisis." —Damien Short, Professor, University of London, UK This edited collection is grounded in a green criminological approach to understand whether the law, both in effect and implications, reflects, refracts, or sublimates the social, political and ecological conditions of our times. Since its initial proposal in the 1990s, green criminology has focused the criminological gaze on a wide array of harms and crimes affecting humans, animals other than humans, ecological systems, and the planet as a whole. As a continuously blossoming field of criminological inquiry, green criminology recognizes and examines behaviours that are both illegal and legal (yet detrimental), and in varying ways has made great efforts to provide insight into harms in a more fulsome manner. At the same time, there have been many significant legal instances, domestic, and international, including case law, legislation, regulation, treaties, agreements and executive directives which have troubled the law’s understanding of green harms, illegal and legal activity, pushing legal boundaries in the process. Recognizing that humanity and nature are inextricably integrated, Green Criminology and the Law reflects the range and depth of high-quality research and scholarship, combining contributions from established scholars willing to explore new topics and recent entrants who are breaking new scholarly ground. James Gacek is Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina, Canada. Richard Jochelson is Professor and Dean of Law at Robson Hall Law School, Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
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    ISBN: 9783031067426
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 256 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Marxian school of sociology. ; Political sociology. ; World politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: From the Marx of Democracy to the Marx of Communism -- Chapter 2: Marx in the City of Enlightenment and Revolutions -- Chapter 3: Marx as a Critic of Political Revolution -- Chapter 4: Marx as a Thinker of Communism. Communism as a Society (Strategy) -- Chapter 5: Marx as a Theoretician of the Communist Revolution. Communism as a Movement (Tactics) -- Chapter 6: The Marx of Communism and the Communist Cause of our Time.
    Abstract: Following Marx’s own itinerary from Paris to London, from politics to the critique of political economy, The Marx of Communism delves into a creatively unfolding international debate on the democracy-communism relation, while supporting a 21st century communism as a social alternative to capitalism. Taking into consideration Marx’s analysis of communism both as a movement and a social formation, this study focuses on the dialectics of transition from capitalism to communism. Dealing with communism as the outcome of a long-term cultural and political process, the author defends Marxian communism as the open-ended constitution of a self-governed demos, whose citizens create their own way of life on the ground of a stateless and classless society. From this point of view, the end of the state does not mean the end, but the revival of politics in terms of a communist bios. Reshaping their collective and personal values and setting limits to the production/technology dynamics of their economy, this book argues, the citizens of a communist polis form a promising antithesis to the private individuals of a capitalist society. Alexandros Chrysis is Professor of the Philosophy of History & History of Ideas at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece. He is the author of “True Democracy” as a Prelude to Communism: The Marx of Democracy (2018).
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 342 p. 9 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Political sociology. ; Communication in politics. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Social psychology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: An Interdisciplinary Application of Shame/Violence Theory -- 2. Causes and Prevention of Violence: Shame and Guilt in the Individual and Society -- 3. Shame, Gender and Radical Listening -- 4. Shame: An/other View: The Role of Shame in Misrepresenting Existential Anxiety -- 5. 'With the Humble is Wisdom': Humility as an Antidote to Humiliation and Shame -- 6. Making Sense of Shame Feelings in Children and Young People with Developmental Trauma -- 7. Shame/Violence Intervention (SVI) -- 8. The Violence Intervention Project (VIP) -- 9. Shame and Humiliation as Drivers of Violent Behaviour: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Greek Radical Voters -- 10. The “Deserved” Victimhood of Far-left Terrorism: Shame, Guilt and Status Reversal -- 11. The Dynamics of Pride and Shame in Football Fandom: The Case of FC PAOK (Rosa Vasilaki) -- 12. On the Skin of the City: The Shame/Violence Model as a Tool for Interpreting the Unauthorized ‘Programmatic’ Marking of Buildings in Modern Athens -- 13. Memory Landscapes and Stories of Shame: The Coexistence of Greece, Cyprus and Turkey as an Affective ‘Mission Impossible’ -- 14. Shameful and Shameless: Projecting Triumph and Humiliation in the Brexit Era - A Psychosocial-Group Methodological Approach -- 15. Living Beyond the Binary: Experiences of Shame and Violence in the Trans Community -- 16. Shame Awareness and Engagement with the Other in Times of Global Malaise: A Manifesto.
    Abstract: This book takes James Gilligan’s theory of shame and violence as a starting point for an application of the model across disciplines (psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science, cultural studies, history, architecture and urban studies) and levels of analysis (from the individual to the global). It critically engages with shame theory, exploring the existential origins, the emotional, linguistic, cognitive and cultural manifestations and symptoms of shame—in the mind, in the body, in public space and in the civic culture—and its relationship with other emotions, such as anger, guilt and pride. It also examines the role of shame in communities that are at the fault lines of current affairs, identity politics and “culture wars”, such as Brexit, trans rights, and racial equality. The book contributes to the literature on political psychology and psychosocial studies by facilitating an innovative application of the concept of shame: blending theory and practice, focusing on gender as a key lever of the mechanism of shame, and exploring the mechanics of shame and shame awareness, so as to seek and propose a range of guiding principles, practical models and possible solutions for the future. Roman Gerodimos is Professor of Global Current Affairs at Bournemouth University, UK, and a Faculty Member at the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change, Austria.
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    ISBN: 9783031040023
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 250 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political sociology. ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Far Right and the Workers: An Overview -- Chapter 3: Belgium -- Chapter 4: France -- Chapter 5: Germany -- Chapter 6: Hungary -- Chapter 7: Italy -- Chapter 8: Poland -- Chapter 9: Conclusions: The Far Right and the Workers in Comparative Perspective.
    Abstract: “Thanks to its robust comparative design covering paradigmatic cases in Western and Eastern Europe and the authors’ careful attention to the interplay between demand and supply of far-right politics among workers, The Far Right in the Workplace is a major success and a pathbreaking contribution to a crowded field. The book offers much to learn to sociologists and political scientists as well as to trade unionists and political practitioners. A must-read for everyone interested in the roots of the far right and the future of labor politics.” – Gábor Scheiring, Bocconi University “This is a very important contribution to the study of the far right and, in particular, to the much discussed and yet widely contested relationship between the far right and workers. The early clarification of key terms, often taken for granted, such as far right and working class is particularly important and makes the case studies all the more convincing and interesting. At a time when the mainstreaming of far-right politics is ever present, this critical account is an essential read for anyone interested in these issues.” – Aurélien Mondon, University of Bath This book offers the first comparative study of far-right messaging and organizing efforts at the workplace level as well as responses by established trade unions, encompassing six European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland). Drawing on semi-structured interviews with workers and trade union actors with a focus on the automobile industry, the volume develops a classification of far-right strategies and trade union counter-strategies in comparative perspective. Based on a research project in cooperation with trade unions, the book is situated at the interface of comparative politics, industrial sociology, political economy, and political sociology. Seongcheol Kim is a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany. Samuel Greef is a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany. Wolfgang Schroeder is Professor and Chair for Political System of Germany in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031141829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 342 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Critical Security Studies in the Global South
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Political sociology. ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1. The Incomplete State: Fifty Shades of Failure -- 2. Understanding State-Building in Central Asia -- 3. Follow the Water: Soviet Legacy as Cross-Border Societal Interdependence -- 4. Impact of External Actors on States and Societies -- 5. When Elites Meet: The Struggle for Power and its Social Meaning.
    Abstract: This book is about transformation of the state and an incomplete state-building. It defies the transitology assumption of continuity, linearity and dichotomy of formal and informal in the transformation of the state. Contrary to the conventional approaches, it claims that any social order or its political scaffolding, the state, is always incomplete and we need to develop cognitive maps to better understand that incompleteness. It reflects on the social practices, processes and patterns that evolve as a non-linear result of three sets of factors: those that are historical, external, and elite-driven. Three Central Asian states - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan - are examined here comparatively as case studies, as Central Asia represents an interesting terrain to challenge conventional understanding of the state. Specifically, the book captures a paradox at hand: how come three states, which made different political, economic, cultural, and social choices at the outset of their independence in the 1990s, have ended up as so-called “weak states” in the 2000s and onwards? This puzzle can be better understood through looking at the relationship among three main sets of factors that shape state-building processes, such as history, external actors, and local elites. This book applies an interdisciplinary approach, combining political anthropology, political economy, sociology, and political science. It helps conceptualize and understand social and political order beyond the “failed state” paradigm. Viktoria Akchurina is Senior Lecturer at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Her research focuses on state-building in Central Asia and the Middle East, comparatively.
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    ISBN: 9783031108204
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 230 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Global Political Sociology
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Comparative government. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Far-right extremism: The United States and the world -- Chapter 2: Race, International Relations, white supremacy, and methodology -- Chapter 3: Whiteness, white supremacy, and far-right extremism in the United States -- Chapter 4: American Renaissance and far-right extremists’ use of numbers and pseudoscience for legitimation of violence -- Chapter 5: Meme-ing the far-right: Pepe and the deplorables -- Chapter 6: Red pills, white genocide and “the great replacement”: Re-writing history, and constructing white victimhood in/through far-right extremist manifestos and texts -- Chapter 7: Far-right extremism and strategies of legitimation and resistance in US politics.
    Abstract: This book analyzes key popular culture artifacts linked with United States’ far-right extremism to illustrate how extremists use various narrative strategies to legitimate their interests and goals and to justify violent actions. Recognizing these narrative strategies and how they are used partly explains the back and forth moves between mainstream politics and the far-right of ideas and issues that used to remain within far-right circles. The main objective of this book is to utilize theoretical approaches that centralize processes of racialization to analyze and explain how far-right extremists utilize recognizable narratives to mainstream and communicate their ideas. The book will illustrate processes by which racialized subjects are produced and violence justified. In order to do so, the book concentrates on popular culture as sources of how the far-right constitutes their identities and goals. It first develops a methodological plan to study popular culture artifacts that is drawn from scholarship on race and discourse analysis in International Relations (IR). It then analyzes far-right use of key popular culture artifacts, such as magazines, memes, and manifestos, to note how extremist identities and interests are produced, publicly communicated, and mainstreamed. This will contribute to Security Studies and IR’s understanding of far-right extremism, especially how they utilize similar narrative strategies as used in mainstream contexts to justify their calls for violence. Priya Dixit is Associate Professor of Politics in the Political Science Department at Virginia Tech University, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783030969509
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 138 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Crime—Sociological aspects. ; Religion and sociology. ; Political sociology. ; Religion and politics. ; Peace. ; Religion—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Introduction_ Chapter 1 -- Context_ Chapter 2 -- Religion, the Great Un-equaliser_ Chapter 3 -- Back to the Social_ Chapter 4 -- Epistemology in the context of social conflict_ Conclusion.
    Abstract: Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion – how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict? In other words, what does religion do? These interrogations are at the core of this book. It is the first critical and comprehensive review of the ways in which the social sciences have interpreted religion’s significance in Northern Ireland. In particular, it examines the shortcomings of existing interpretations and, in turn, suggests alternative lines of thinking for more robust and compelling analyses of the role(s) religion might play in Northern Irish culture and politics. Through, and beyond, the case of Northern Ireland, the second objective of this book is to outline a critical agenda for the social study of religion, which has theoretical and methodological underpinnings. Finally, this work engages with epistemological issues which never have been addressed as such in the Northern Irish context: how do conflict settings affect the research undertaken on religion, when religion is an object of political and violent contentions? By analysing the scope for objective and critical thinking in such research context, this critical essay intends to contribute to a sociology of the sociology of religion. Véronique Altglas is Lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast. She is General Secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion since 2017. Her book From Yoga to Kabbalah: Religious Exoticism and the Logics of Bricolage (Oxford University Press, 2014) won the book award of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion in 2017.
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    ISBN: 9783031058516
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 347 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Political science. ; Economics. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: 1. On Ideology: Is There a Single Thought in Economics? -- 2. Growth: A Mainstream Theory (Which is Also Itself) in Crisis -- 3. Development: Theoretical Rebirth...or Smiling Recolonization? -- 4. Markets and Institutions: Economics and the Rough Understanding of Organizations -- 5. Some Serious Limits of John Maynard Keynes on Money, the Crisis, and the State -- 6. Thomas Piketty's Regulation of Capitalism Through a "Tax Revolution" -- 7. From the Domination of High Finance to the Systemic Crisis of Capital: A Marxist Interpretation -- 8. For a Political Economy of Defense: Imperialist Wars and their Links to the Crisis of Capital -- 9. Overcoming Capitalism to Protect Humanity and the Environment: Revitalizing Marxism for Modern Socialist Transitions.
    Abstract: This book provides analytical arguments that demonstrate the necessity to go beyond not only mainstream economics but also, and especially, the capitalist economy itself. It provides a radical critique of mainstream economics, comparing it to an unscientific form of single thought, and applies this criticism to the specific fields of growth, development, the institutions, defense, or the environment. It targets both neoclassical economics and reformist “soft heterodox” currents, from neoinstitutionalists to neo-Keynesians—including Thomas Piketty or Amartya Sen, among others. In doing so, it rejects Keynes’ theories of money, the crisis, and the state. It then offers a Marxist interpretation of the current crisis of capitalism, considering it as a systemic crisis without solutions internal to its own logic and dynamics, and emphasizes the links between this capitalist crisis and imperialist wars, and the destruction of the environment and natural resources by capital. The book concludes by arguing that we must find the necessary theoretical and practical alternatives in a Marxist perspective, advocating for socialist transitions away from the capitalist economy to protect humanity and the environment. Rémy Herrera is an economist and researcher at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) and teaches Ph.D. students in Economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 269 p. 4 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political sociology. ; Religion and sociology. ; Religion and politics. ; Political science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Theology after Marxism -- 2. Marxism, theology and the meanings of ‘critique’ -- 3. Secular Redemption -- 4. Marxism and Buddhism: A History and Appraisal -- 5. Marxism and Sikhism: A reciprocal relationship -- 6. Marxism and the question of ‘political religions’: can Marxism be understood as a religious phenomenon? -- 7. Zapatismo and Theology of Liberation -- 8. Liberation Theology and Non-Dogmatic Marxism in the Philippines -- 9. From Freedom of Religion to Environmentalism and Democracy: Understanding the Political Praxis of Christian Activists in the Communist Party-State Vietnam -- 10. Marxism and Confucianism in China -- 11. The (im)possibilities of a Hindu Left in contemporary India -- 12.The Popular Movement of the Rif; towards a class analysis of popular Islam in the contemporary Maghreb -- 13. Marxism, Islam and the Iranian Revolution -- 14. Political Islam as Counterhegemony: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Limits of Appropriating Gramsci to the Egyptian Context.
    Abstract: This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxism’s treatment of religion and the religious aspects of Marxism. Its aim is to complicate the superficial understanding of Marxism as a simple rejection of religion both in theory and practice. Divided into two parts (Theory and Praxis), this book brings together the three different themes of Marxism, religion, and emancipation for the first time. The first part explores the more theoretical discussions regarding the relationship between Marxism and various themes (or currents) within religious thought, to highlight points of compatibility as well as incompatibilities/conflicts. The studies in the second part of the collection refer to how Marxist ideas are received in different parts of the world. They show that as soon as Marxism arrives in a new place, the theory interacts and bonds with a pre-existing stock of ideas, each changing the other reciprocally. Graeme Kirkpatrick is Professor of Social and Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester, UK. Peter McMylor is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. Simin Fadaee is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.
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    Keywords: Africa—Politics and government. ; Political science. ; Economic development. ; Human rights. ; Political sociology. ; Governance ; Demokratie ; Rechtsstaat ; Menschenrecht ; Souveränität ; Abstimmung ; Wahl ; Amtsperiode ; Dauer ; Afrika
    Abstract: There is an emerging consensus that what is projected as democratic governance and justice in Africa requires a re-calibration, in particular, in relation to the constitutive demos, human rights, the realisation of commitments at various governance levels and the convergence between these ideations. The post-colonial narrative on democracy has unveiled some crevices in rule of law, political equality, political participation, political culture and freedom of the press. Aside from the fact that these notions are threatened by some existing institutional structures, these notions are increasingly being negotiated across political spaces. Evident in the prevalent narrative is an imperative for Africa to assert its place on the global scene of democratic governance and justice. However, if this will be accomplished, it is important to understand some of the issues that need to be worked through in this transition. Aderomola Adeola is a democracy and human rights expert and the lead editor of Governance in Nigeria post-1999: revisiting the democratic ‘new dawn’ of the Fourth Republic (2019) and Compliance with International Human Rights Law in Africa (2022). Makau Mutua is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Margaret W. Wong Professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law, USA, where he served as Dean for seven years, 2008-2014. He teaches international human rights, international business transactions and international law. He is the author of several books including Kenya’s Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan (2008), Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions (2008) and Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (2002).
    Note: Africa in Transition: Issues in Democracy, Governance and Justice , Election Technology as a Means of Enhancing Democratic Legitimacy: A Case of Kenya , Assessing Cameroon’s Elections Against International Standards and Good Practices on Democracy and Human Rights , State Sovereignty and Presidential Term Limits in Africa , Soldiers in Civilian Uniforms: The Role of the Military in the Pursuit of Third-Termism , Reflections on the Role of the Pan-African Parliament in Advancing Democratic Governance in Africa , Gender Discriminatory Nationality Laws and Childhood Statelessness in Africa: A Reflection on Legislative Interpretations , The Economic Community of West African States and the Mano River Union: Conflict, Cooperation and Accommodation , The Media and Civil Society as Partners in Transitional Justice in Côte d’Ivoire , Genocide, Justice and Democratic Legitimacy: Lessons from Rwanda’s 25-Year Experiment , The Community Court of Justice of the Ecowas and the Advancement of Human Rights and Social Justice Reform in West Africa: Three Landmark Cases , Contemporary Developments in Human and Peoples’ Rights Protection in Africa: Insights from the African Union , Righting the Future from the Past: Four Decades of Human Rights (Illusions) in Zimbabwe , Constitutional Courts as Protection Conduits: The Role of Egypt Supreme Constitutional Court in Advancing Human Rights Protection , The Media and Freedom of Expression in Democratic Malawi: A Formality or Reality? , The Future in Transition: Realising Respect for Human Rights in the ‘New’ Gambia , The Psychosocial Well-Being of the African Child in Criminal Proceedings , Taxation as Protection Finance for the African Child , Protecting ‘Climate Refugees’ Under the OAU 1969 Refugee Convention
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    ISBN: 9783031063534
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 285 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political sociology. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Marxian school of sociology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Human Development as a Normative Commitment -- 3. Freedom and Human Development -- 4. The First Critique of Alienation -- 5. Democracy -- 6. From Realisation-Oriented to Agent-Centred Political Theory -- 7. Alienation and Unfreedom -- 8. The Socialist Alternative -- 9. Radical Theory and Revolutionary Praxis -- 10: Towards a New World.
    Abstract: “This is an important and ambitious piece of work. It develops a number of large-scale and bold theses about Marx’s method in political theory, his critique of capitalism and his vision of a better society. It is well researched and well argued. It will have a significant impact on debates about these issues.” —Sean Sayers, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Kent, UK “This sober and wide-ranging work is a clear and thoughtful account of some of Marx's central concepts and theses, and a spirited defense of their relevance as tools for understanding and criticising contemporary society. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to know where we are and where we might go.” —Raymond Geuss FBA, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK This book offers the first realist reconstruction of Marx’s critique of capitalism. Reading Marx through a realist lens enables us to make sense of the connections between (1) Marx’s positive concept of freedom, rooted in a theory of human development, (2) his understanding of alienation as diagnosing capitalist unfreedom, and (3) his conceptions of democracy and socialism, respectively, as the cures for this unfreedom. Along the way, it discusses and responds to some of Marx’s most insightful critics, such as Max Weber and Friedrich Hayek. This clarifies Marx’s ideas for a new generation of political thinkers; explains the challenge they pose to contemporary debates about freedom, democracy, and future economic institutions; and demonstrates that these ideas remain both defensible and compelling. Paul Raekstad is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam working on radical political theory, in particular Marxism, anarchism, prefigurative politics, and direct action. They co-authored Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today (2020). .
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    ISBN: 9783031174070
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 173 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Comparative government. ; Political sociology. ; Identity politics.
    Abstract: 1. Constructing EU's Political Identity in Policy Making (Sabine Saurugger & Mark Thatcher) -- 2. Constructing and De-constructing the European Political Identity: The Contradictory Logic of the EU's Institutional System (Sergio Fabbrini) -- 3. Affirming Europe with Trade: Deal Negotiations and the Making of a Political Identity (Francesco Duina & Ezekiel Smith) -- 4. Transforming Identity in International Society: The Potential and Failure of European Integration (Thomas Diez) -- 5. Do Central Bankers Dream of Political Union? From Epistemic Community to Common Identity (Erik Jones) -- 6. The EU's Legal Identities and the Court of Justice of the EU (Sabine Saurugger & Fabien Terpan) -- 7. Common Market, Normative Power or Super-State? Conflicting Political Identities in EU Asylum and Immigration Policy (Sandra Lavenex) -- 8. Direct and Market Governance Paths for the Creation of an EU Political Identity: Cultural Heritage Policy (Mark Thatcher) -- 9. Understanding the Identity of a Policy Field: The European Commission and Liberal Modernization in the Doman of Labour and Social Policy (Georg Menz) -- 10. Comment: The EU and European Identity (Neil Fligstein) -- 11. EU Political Identity, Integration and Top-down Analysis: A Reply to Neil Fligstein (Sabine Saurugger & Mark Thatcher).
    Abstract: This book examines the construction of the EU’s political identity (or identities), variations in its strength, and the nature of its content. Drawing on studies both on European nation-state formation and on the EU’s identity, the chapters take a top-down approach and analyse how EU institutions in different major policy domains have themselves sought to create political identity through policy making. The authors define the construction of EU political identity and set out empirically applicable indicators to assess political identity in policy making. They analyse the construction of identity through a process-oriented approach that explicitly includes contestation and the existence of rival political identities. Comparing across policy domains, the contributions suggest that the ability of EU institutions to construct an EU political identity has been limited not only by existing national identities but also by the coexistence of rival EU political identities within policy domains. Hence, it has been difficult for EU institutions to establish a strong identity, with identity being strongest where there are clear external alternatives and limited rival identities within the EU. Sabine Saurugger is Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Grenoble, France, and Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. Mark Thatcher is Professor of Political Science at Luiss University Rome, Italy, and Visiting Professor at LSE, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783030998042
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 521 p. 24 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Hate Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Right-wing extremism in Canada and the United States
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    Keywords: Critical criminology. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Crime—Sociological aspects. ; Political sociology. ; Criminology. ; Religion and politics. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Kanada ; Rechtsradikalismus
    Abstract: Part 1. Thinking About Right-wing Extremism in North America -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Barbara Perry, Jeffrey Greunewald, Ryan Scrivens) -- Chapter 2. Understanding Extremism: Frames of Analysis of the Far Right (Randy Blazak) -- Chapter 3. Blurring the Boundaries of Mainstream and Extreme: Contexts and Contours of Right-wing Extremism in Canada (Barbara Perry) -- Chapter 4. Trump and the Alt Right: The Mainstreaming of White Nationalism (Tanner Mirrlees) -- Chapter 5. Asymmetric Coverage of Asymmetric Violence: How the U.S. Print News Media Report Far Right Terrorism (Erin M. Kearns and Allison Betus) -- Chapter 6. Check All That Apply: Challenges in Tracking Ideological Movements That Motivate Far-Right Terrorism (Erin Miller, Elizabeth Yates, and Sheehan Kane) -- Part 2. Diversity Within the Right-wing Extremist Movement -- Chapter 7. ‘We Are the News Now’: The Role of Networked Conspiracy and the Quebec ‘Tweetosphere’ in Shaping the Narrative around the Anti-COVID-19 Restrictions (Samuel Tanner and Aurélie Campana) -- Chapter 8. By Ballot or by Bullet: Fantasies of Violence in the Patriot/Militia Movement in the United States (Sam Jackson) -- Chapter 9. Birds of a feather: A comparative analysis of white supremacist and violent male supremacist discourses (Meredith Pruden, Ayse Lokmanoglu, Anne Peterscheck, and Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage) -- Chapter 10. They’re not all the same: a longitudinal comparison of violent and non-violent right-wing identities (Garth Davies, Ryan Scrivens, Tiana Gaudette, and Richard Frank) -- Chapter 11. No Longer Alone: Lone Wolves, Wolf Packs and Made for Web TV Specials (Jeffrey Kaplan) -- Part 3. Where the Action Is: Right-wing Extremist Activities -- Chapter 12. Far Right Extremist Violence in the United States (Steven Chermak, Joshua Freilich, , William Parkin, Jeff Gruenewald, Colleen Mills, Brent Klein, Leevia Dillon, and Celinet Duran) -- Chapter 13. Pathways to Hate: Applying an Integrated Social Control-Social Learning Model to Hate Violence by Far-Right Extremists (Colleen Mills) -- Chapter 14. Far-Right Extremists’ Use of the Internet: Emerging Trends in the Empirical Literature (Ryan Scrivens, Tiana Gaudette, Maura Conway, and Thomas J. Holt) -- Chapter 15. Far-Right Violence and Extremism – Global Convergence(Arie Perliger and Michael Mills) -- Chapter 16. The Nexus of Right-Wing Extremism and the Canadian Armed Forces (Philip McCristall, David C. Hofmann, and Shayna Perry) -- Part 4. Responses to far-right extremism -- Chapter 17. More than Walking Away: Barriers to Disengagement among Former White Supremacists (Steven Windisch, Pete Simi, Kathleen Blee, and Matthew DeMichele ) -- Chapter 18. Confronting Online Extremism: Strategies, Promises, and Pitfalls (James Hawdon and Matthew Costello) -- 19. Criminal Justice Responses To Right-Wing Extremist Violence In The United States (Jeff Gruenewald, Katie Ratcliff, and Hayden Lucas).
    Abstract: This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries. It is particularly timely given the recent rise in political populism that has engendered renewed activism from extreme right contingents. Trump’s right-wing populist and white nationalist political campaign has galvanized Canadian and American white supremacist ideologies, identities, movements and practices. Leading Canadian and American scholars are brought together to explore a contemporary array of current dynamics, patterns and characteristics associated with the movement in each country. Split into four sections, it provides an introduction to extremism in the 21st century, it examines studying extremism, forms of extremist activity and violence, and the responses. The collection allows comparisons to be drawn out from the distinct treatments of each country. It speaks to students as well as scholars in social sciences departments, including criminology, sociology, social justice, and terrorism, peace and security studies, and political-violence related programs. Barbara Perry is Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University, Canada, and the Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism. Jeff Gruenewald is Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center (TRC) in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at University of Arkansas, USA. Ryan Scrivens is Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, USA. He is also Associate Director at the International CyberCrime Research Centre at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and Research Fellow at the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence.
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    ISBN: 9783031073854
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 304 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Communication in politics. ; Political sociology. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Great Alienation -- 3. Techno-Capitalist Determinism -- 4. A Happy Self-Alienation -- 5. Narcissus, Pygmalion, and Prometheus -- 6. The Internet of Things and the Internet of Human Beings -- 7. From Guy Debord to Pulsive Integrated Techno-Capitalism -- 8. Well Masked Alienation (I) -- 9. Well Masked Alienation (II) -- 10. The Nomos of Techno-Capitalism and the Diseases of Humanity. .
    Abstract: In this book, translated into English for the first time, Lelio Demichelis takes on a modern perspective of the concept/process of alienation. This concept—much more profound and widespread today than first described and denounced by Marx—has largely been forgotten and erased. Using the characters of Narcissus, Pygmalion and Prometheus, the author reinterprets and updates Marx, Nietzsche, Anders, Foucault and, in particular, critical theory and the Frankfurt School views on an administered society (where everything is automated and engineered, manifest today in algorithms, AI, machine learning and social networking) showing that, in a world where old and new forms of alienation come together, man is increasingly led to delegate (i.e. alienate) sovereignty, freedom, responsibility and the awareness of being alive. Lelio Demichelis is Professor of Economic Sociology at Insubria University, Italy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031060717
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 354 p. 11 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Political sociology. ; Emigration and immigration—Government policy. ; Human rights. ; Race.
    Abstract: 1. Racism in and for the Welfare State- 2. The Welfare State Struggling with Capitalist Hybris -- 3. Welfare State and the Hint for "Social Benefit Cheaters and Profiteers" Migrants: The Case of Belgium -- 4. The Swedish Racial Welfare Regime in Transition -- 5. The Public Charge: The Capitalist Politics of Labor, Migration and Austerity in the United States -- 6. Whose Welfare State? A Racialized Logic to [Un]protect Immigration and Asylum in Spain -- 7. The 23 Million of Romanians, Igor and the Others: Welfare State, Migration, and Racism in Hungary -- 8. Continuities and Transformations of Racism in German Welfare Capitalism -- 9. In a Country Boasting a Welfare State, do Black Lives Matter Less? -- 10. Welfare State as a Political Weapon: Institutional Racism Against Arabs, Asylum Seekers and the Minorities of Israel -- 11. The System of Racial Discrimination in the Italian Welfare State -- 12. Anti-Immigrant Racism within the Brazilian Welfare State and the Expulsion of Cuban Doctors -- 13. Japanese Welfare State and Racism: Is the Myth of Social Homogeneity Overshadowing Discrimination Patterns on Migrants?.
    Abstract: This book analyses politics, practices, and discourses of welfare racism against immigrants under neoliberalism. As an instrument of selection, exclusion, exploitation, and stigmatisation, welfare racism is a distinguishing feature of anti-immigrant racism which has gained new momentum over the last decades. The strength and persistence of this form of racism are linked to several factors, including the colonial roots of the welfare state, racism’s structural position in modern society, the intrinsic limits of social rights in capitalism, and migration policies that are almost always punitive in nature. Rich in documents and historical perspective, this book presents a global analysis of racism within and in the name of the welfare state. It examines discriminatory laws, measures, and practices by state actors and discourses by public figures and organizations, demonstrating the ways these developments are related to the dismantling of the welfare state in the neoliberal era, and to the war on labour and social rights. Integrating perspectives from Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Perocco highlights welfare racism as a global and structured phenomenon producing inequalities and concerning labour as a whole. Fabio Perocco is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Venice, Italy.
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    ISBN: 9783030978884
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 412 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences
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    Keywords: Sociology—History. ; Sex. ; Political sociology. ; Russia—History. ; Europe, Eastern—History. ; Soviet Union—History.
    Abstract: 1 (Re)Making “Gender”, (Un)Making “Eastern Europe”. Introduction -- “Gender” and Feminism After State Socialism -- Brief Literature Overview -- Mapping the “East-West Misunderstanding” in Feminism -- “Gender” as a Socialisation Platform -- Doing the Sociology of a Transnational Melting Pot -- Bibliography -- Part I Transnational Mobilisations: From Discovering the “Post-socialist Other” to Professional Activism Beyond Borders -- 2 Reviving Feminist Internationalism After the Cold War -- Transatlantic Conversations -- A “Feminist Powerhouse” -- “US Writers, Professors, Feminist Activists” -- Eastern European Feminists “In-Between” -- “Sisterhood” Versus “Difference”: An Iterative Debate, a Historically Situated Outcome -- Bibliography -- 3 The “NGO-isation of Feminism” in the Making -- Feminism as a “Trademark” -- Towards the “NGO Form” -- Inventing and Practicing Lateral Solidarity at a Distance -- An Expert Look and an Informal Habitus -- Transnational and Trans-Sectorial Circulations -- Bibliography -- Part II The Institutional Building of International Gender Expertise -- 4 A Democracy-Making Mission -- A Young Philanthropic Foundation -- Fighting Against Communism and Training the Post-Socialist Elites -- “Expanding Rights-Based Education” -- Bibliography -- 5 Aims and Scope of an International Gender-Studies Programme -- Activist Origins -- Structural Tensions -- Critical Vocation and Expert Potential -- Teaching and Research, International Transfers and Local Innovations -- Bibliography -- 6 Gender, Feminism and Philanthropic Work -- “Generating an Agenda” -- Feminist Activists and Bureaucracy Employees -- Learning “Gender” and Resisting International Pedagogy -- Bibliography -- Part III A Sociography of Eastern European “Gender Pioneers” -- 7 Feminist Scholars, Activists and Experts -- Shared Social Dispositions -- Established Scholars and Newcomers to Academia -- Professional Activists and Critical Bureaucrats -- Historically “Rooted” Militancy -- Bibliography -- 8 Gender Studies and the Higher Education Reform in Romania -- Liberalising the Universities After State Socialism -- A Small World of Activists and Reformers -- Interwoven Academic and Expert Positions -- Bibliography -- 9 A Counterpoint from the Former Yugoslavia -- “Gender” and Feminism in Tension -- The Ambiguous Paths of “Gender Expertise” -- Legacy of State Socialism and Counter-Hegemonic Thinking -- Bibliography -- 10 Going Global. Conclusion -- “Sisters in Feminism”, Brokers of “Gender”, Actors of Globalisation -- The End of the “Second World” and the Afterlife of the (Red) “Woman Question” -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Abstract: This book explores the role and place of feminist politics in the transformation of the former socialist world and points out the geopolitical mechanisms involved in the deployment of technocratic norms, expert discourses, activist repertoires and academic knowledge on women’s rights and gender equality in the 1990s-2000s. Based on an interdisciplinary approach and scrutinizing transnational flows of people, resources and ideas, the analysis brings together themes and spaces that have been disconnected in previous scholarship. It sheds light on the integration of feminist resources into contemporary governance through complex entanglements of international aid to democratization, “activism beyond borders” and systemic transformation of higher education. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology, political science, gender studies, and East-European studies. Ioana Cîrstocea is a Sociologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS, and a member of the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science, CESSP, Paris, France. Her research focuses on intellectual spaces and actors in Eastern Europe and on the production, circulation and usages of feminist knowledge in (post)-Cold War settings.
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    ISBN: 9783030749934
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 357 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
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    Keywords: Sociology. ; Political sociology. ; Violence. ; Crime. ; Citizenship—Sociological aspects.
    Abstract: 1. Troubled Times: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Renewing Classical Themes -- 2. The Question of Inequality: Trends of Functional Democratisation and De-democratisation -- 3. Vox Populi Then and Now -- 4. Figurational Sociology of the Rule of Law: A Case of Central and Eastern Europe -- 5. Transformations of Human Rights within Ruptures and Continuity: A Historico-Sociological Approach -- 6. Civilising Digitalisation: In Search of a New balance with Today’s Technological Innovations -- 7. Confronting Uncertainties: Process Sociology Converges with the Ecological Risk Society of the Becks -- Part II: Violence and Faces of the War -- 8. The Civilising Process, Decline of Homicide and Mass Murder Societies: Norbert Elias and the History of Violence -- 9. A Throwback to Violence? Outline for a Process-Sociological Approach to ‘Terror’ and ‘Terrorism’ -- 10. Violence and Power: The Kaiowá and Guarani Indigenous Peoples -- 11. Analysing European Defence with Elias’s Historical Sociology (1990–2020) -- Part III: Established–Outsiders Relations and Habitus Issues -- 12. Weaving Elias’s Thought with Indigenous Perspectives and Lives: Proposal for a Research Agenda -- 13. A Question of Function: Unequal Power Ratios and Asylum Seekers in Ireland -- 14. Thoughts on Describing Established and Outsider Figurations in Inner Mongolia- 15. Generational Figuration and We-Group Formation in the Palestinian West Bank since the 1970s -- 16. The Israeli National Habitus and Historiography: The Importance of Generations and State Building -- 17. The Established and The Outsiders: An Incomplete Study? -- Part IV: Conclusive Reflections -- 18. Some Political Implications of Sociology from an Eliasian Point of View.
    Abstract: “Beautifully written, this book engages thoughtfully with current issues within a solid understanding of their historical background. It covers a hugely impressive range of topics, developing an innovative mobilisation of Elias’s sociological perspective that will underpin a wide variety of new research efforts. In a world becoming increasingly interdependent and complex, this book provides an essential guide to developing the kind of understanding of the world in which we live required for a genuinely democratic politics.” --Robert van Krieken, Emeritus Professor, The University of Sydney, Australia “Readers will encounter in this volume an unusually wide-ranging collection of innovative papers that revisit core Eliasian ideas, provide new insights into violence and war, and explore through diverse empirical cases the classical analysis of relations between established groups and outsiders. The result is an inventive study which is essential reading for students of the endlessly surprising consequences and challenges of the global integration of modern societies.” --Andrew Linklater, Emeritus Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK This edited collection brings together texts that discuss current major issues in our troubled times through the lens of Norbert Elias’s sociology. It sheds light on both the contemporary world and some of Elias’s most controversial concepts. Through examination of the ‘current affairs’, political and social contemporary changes, the authors in this collection present new and challenging ways of understanding these social processes and figurations. Ultimately, the objective of the book is to embrace and utilise some of the more polemical aspects of Elias’s legacy, such as the exploration of decivilizing processes, decivilizing spurts, and dys-civilization. It investigates to what extent Elias’s sociological analyses are still applicable in our studies of the developments that mark our troubled times. It does so through both global and local lenses, theoretically and empirically, and above all, by connecting past, present, and possible futures of all human societies. Florence Delmotte is Research Associate at the Belgian Foundation for Scientific Research (FNRS) and Professor of Political Science at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, Belgium. Barbara Górnicka is Research Fellow in Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland, where she completed her doctoral degree in 2016.
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    ISBN: 9783030792138
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 188 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
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    Keywords: Critical criminology. ; Public safety. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Political sociology. ; Welfare state. ; Human geography.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Britain’s Legacy of Inhospitality and Violence Towards Immigrants -- 3. From ‘Crimmigration’ to Governmentality: Theoretical Perspectives on the Management and Marketisation of Immigration Control -- 4. The Asylum ‘Marketmarket’: Deportation, Detention and the Privatisation of Dispersed Accommodation -- 5. Hostile Environments: Life Within Privatised Dispersed Housing -- 6. The Role of Third Sector Organisations and Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: This book explores the ways in which the state and private security firms contribute to the direct and structural harm of asylum seekers through policies and practices that result in states of perpetual destitution, exclusion, and neglect. By synthesising historic and contemporary public policy, criminological and sociological perspectives, political philosophy, and the direct experiential accounts of asylum seekers living within dispersed accommodation, this text exposes the complex and co-dependent relationship between the state’s social control aims and neoliberal imperatives of market expansion into the immigration control regime. The title borrows from former Home Secretary Theresa May’s pronouncement that the UK government aimed to foster a ‘hostile environment’ in its response to illegal immigration. While the Home Office later attempted to rebrand its hostile environment policy as a ‘compliant environment’, this book illustrates how aggressive approaches toward the management of asylum-seeking populations has effectively extended the hostile environment to those legally present within the UK. Through an examination of the expanded privatisation of dispersed asylum housing and the UK government’s reliance on contracts with private security firms like G4S and Serco, this book explores the lived realities of hostile environments as asylum seekers’ accounts reveal the human costs of marketised asylum accommodation programmes. Steven A. Hirschler is Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at York St John University, UK. His research interests include the privatisation of UK asylum housing and the relationship between law, social inequality and social control practices. Steven has previously published on topics ranging from the 2011 UK riots to structural violence in video games. His teaching covers themes including criminological theory, victimology, asylum and immigration, and state violence.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 248 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series Statement: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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    Keywords: Social sciences. ; Public policy. ; Political sociology. ; Cultural geography.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I: Historical reading of Ventimiglia as a border town -- Chapter 2: The path of hope. Illegal border crossing in the last century (1861-2019), Gabriele Proglio -- Chapter 3: The Franco-Italian border at Menton-Ventimiglia: a perennial place of conflict, brotherhood, and media coverage, Sandro Rinauro -- Chapter 4: The Maritime Alps migration chains: from traditional transalpine mobility to international migration, Marina Marengo -- Part II: Borderland infrastructures -- Chapter 5: The infrastructure environment of the Ventimiglia borderland and underground border crossings, Ivan Bonnin -- Chapter 6: The moral economy of a transit camp. Life and control on the Italian-French border, Marta Menghi -- Chapter 7: The irregular border. Theory and praxis the border of Ventimiglia in the Schengen age, Giacomo Donadio -- Part III: Social actors on the ground -- Chapter 8: Smugglers and smuggled migrants: amid Sudanese passeurs in the border regime of Ventimiglia, Livio Amigoni, Chiara Molinero, Cecilia Vergnano -- Chapter 9: Migrants at stake. Agency and autonomy in Ventimiglia, Silvia Aru -- Chapter 10: Opportunities and obstacles in (un)politicizing a European border, Daniela Trucco -- Chapter 11: Crimes of solidarity. The battlefield of the Roja Valley, Luca Giliberti -- Chapter 12: On the French-Italian border. Guards’ visions in the landscape, Francesco Migliaccio.
    Abstract: This contributed volume analyzes in depth how a border area is constantly reshaped as migration policies harden, and what kind of social, political and economic impacts are produced at local and international level. The study is focused on Ventimiglia, an Italian town located 6 km away from the French-Italian border on the gulf of Genoa with a long story of commerce, custom and smuggling activities related to its proximity to the frontier. While several projects have analyzed other symbolic places of the EU migration crisis such as Lampedusa, Calais and Lesvos, there is a severe empirical gap regarding Ventimiglia, a border town at the very geographic core of the Schengen area. This case study may provide emblematic insights into what European migratory movements are currently revealing in terms of the lack of shared responsibility between EU Member States, the EU common asylum system and respect for human rights, with increasing claims for national sovereignty by some Member States.
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    ISBN: 9783030679651
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 239 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political theory. ; Political sociology. ; Political philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: On Kracauer's Essays and the Contemporary Significance of Dialectics -- 2. A Philosophy of Rootlesness: The Youn Kracauer as a Critic of George Simmel -- 3. The Novel of a Melancholy Outcast: On Ginster -- 4. Allegories of Improvisation: Streets in Berlin and Elsewhere -- 5. Fascism as a Farce of Farce: Totalitarian Progaganda -- 6. The Tradition of the Lost Causes: History, The Last Things Before the Last -- 7. "The Great Rift of the World": Siefried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin and the Discussions about the Character and Function of Critic-Intellectuals -- 8. Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of the Fairy Tale -- 9. Anatomies of Melancholy: Acedia and Alienation in Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer -- 10. Decline and Fall of the Short Novel? Vicissitudes of a Genre in the Modern German Narrative -- 11. The Historian in the Anteroom: Configurations of the Intellectual in the Late Discussions Between Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor W. Adorno.
    Abstract: This book analyses multiple facets of Kracauer’s work, comprehending the essayistic, narrative, philosophical, theoretical and critical writings, and putting special emphasis on some aspects: the phenomenology of metropolis, the theory of historiographic method, the reflections on the crisis of the subject and the emergence of a new subjectivity, the new forms of perception and aesthetic behaviour in late capitalism, the function of critic-intellectuals, the sociology of the middle classes, the theory of fascism, the aesthetical and sociological reflections on literary genres, the politicization of melancholy. An original feature of this book is the attention it pays to the links between Kracauer’s theoretical and critical writings and the traditions of heterodox Marxism, against a habitual tendency to obliterate the political (and emancipatory) dimension in the German author. Miguel Vedda is Full Professor of the chair of German Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Principal Researcher of the Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). .
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    ISBN: 9783030636760
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 262 p.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Political sociology. ; Social groups. ; Family. ; Personality. ; Social psychology. ; Human geography.
    Abstract: 1 Youth and Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities, Marco Giugni and Maria Grasso -- Part I Socialization and Youth Political Participation -- 2 Class Against Democracy? Family Background, Education, and (Youth) Political Participation in Germany, Johannes Kiess -- 3 Youth’s Socializing Spheres in Switzerland: Educational, Recreational, and Community Activities, Valentina Holecz, Eva Fernández G. G., and Marco Giugni -- 4 Disclosing Inequalities: Gender and Patterns of Political Participation Among the Italian Youth Anna Lavizzari and Martín Portos -- Part II Modes of Youth Participation -- 5 Between Indifference and Rejection of Politics: Mobilization of Youth in Post-contentious France, Henry P. Rammelt, Manlio Cinalli, and Didier Chabanet -- 6 Inequalities in Young Adults’ Electoral and Non-institutionalised Modes of Political Participation in Greece: Similar or Diverse Patterns?, Stefania Kalogeraki -- 7 An Unequal Surge? UK Youth Participation in Political Organisations and the Role of Gender Inequalities, Katherine A. Smith -- 8 Knocking on the Public Sphere Door: Does Online Political Participation Make a Difference for Young People in Spain?, Anna Clua, Susana López-León, and Núria Ferran-Ferrer -- Part III The Mobilization of Youth Politics -- 9 The Concern About Environment and Climate Among Young Adults in Sweden, Katrin Uba -- 10 Inequalities Among Youth and Support for Right-Wing Populism in Poland, Marcin Sińczuch, Piotr Michalski, and Mariusz Piotrowski.
    Abstract: “This volume is an indispensable guide to understanding young Europeans’ experience and engagement of politics. Based on compelling and extensive research across nine nations, this volume makes important advances in key debates on youth politics, provides critical empirical insights and succeeds in the herculean task of focusing on specific national contexts while also rendering a comprehensive picture of youth politics and inequality in Europe today.” —Jennifer Earl, Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, USA “This text, drawing on data and analysis across and between nine European countries, captures the changing nature of political ‘activism’ by young people. It indicates how this is strongly nuanced by factors such as social class and gender identity. It also highlights important distinctions between young people’s approaches towards participation.” — Howard Williamson, Professor of European Youth Policy, University of South Wales, UK “This book is an incredible guide to understanding the role and sources of inequalities on young people’s political involvement. Country specific chapters allow the authors to integrate a large number of the key and most pressing issues regarding young people’s relationship to politics. The result is a must read piece for researchers and practitioners aiming to understand the challenges young people face in developing their relationship to politics.” — Gema García-Albacete, Associate Professor of Political Science, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain Young people are very often the driving forces of political participation that aims to change societies and political systems. Rather than being depoliticized, young people in different national contexts are giving rise to alternative politics. Drawing on original survey data collected in 2018, this edited volume provides a detailed analysis of youth participation in nine European countries by focusing on socialization processes, different modes of participation and the mobilization of youth politics. Marco Giugni is Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite), University of Geneva, Switzerland. Maria Grasso is Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Political sociology. ; Evolutionary biology.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Expositions -- 2 Descent with Modifications -- 3 From Biology to Sociology -- Part II: Setting the Scene -- 4 Darwinian Social Evolution as a Theory of Social Change -- 5 Theories of Nationalism -- Part III: Evolving Nations: A Darwinian Study -- 6 The Origins of Nationalism in England/Britain -- 7 Fukoku Kyōhei: Nationalism in Japan -- 8 The Comparative Case -- 9 Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book introduces the value of a Darwinian social evolutionary approach to understanding social change. The chapters discuss several different perspectives on social evolutionary theory, and go on to link these with comparative and historical sociological theory, and two case-studies. Kerr brings together social change theory and theories on nationalism, whilst also providing concrete examples of the theories at work. The book offers a vision of rapprochement between these different areas of theory and study, and to where this could lead future studies of comparative history and sociology. As such, it should be useful to scholars and students of nationalism and social change, sociologists, political scientist and historians. William Kerr is a Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Derby. .
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    ISBN: 9783030635794
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 209 p. 2 illus.)
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    Keywords: Social service . ; Public policy. ; Critical criminology. ; Social policy. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 My Intellectual Journey -- Chapter 2 Workfare in Welfare -- Chapter 3 Methodology and Method -- Chapter 4 The Poor, the Offenders, and the ‘Unadaptable’: Categories Policy-makers Use When Talking About Material Need Recipients -- Chapter 5 Topics Addressed in Parliamentary Debates -- Chapter 6 Justification of Workfare – The Arguments Policy-makers Use -- Chapter 7 Welfare as a Security Issue -- Chapter 8 Population Control Through Security Discourses -- Chapter 9 Ethnicity Plays Its Part -- Chapter 10 Lessons Learnt and the Analysis of Political Farming in Welfare. .
    Abstract: “This book offers a compelling read, analysing how workfare is legitimated in the Central European context, through the innovative metaphor of “political farming.” The analytical framework brings together several distinct streams of theorizing (critical discourse studies, critical security studies, governmentality, boundarymaking, and the dynamics of ethnic relations) seamlessly and effectively. Through a very nuanced discursive analysis, Kissová shows how the poor, offenders, and the “unadaptable” – categories policymakers use to talk about material need recipients – are linked pathologically with criminality, abuse of the system and other negative perceptions. This is a must-read text for anyone interested in how political actors justify questionable legislation that cements inequality in today’s neoliberal milieu.” — B. Nadya Jaworsky, Associate Professor, Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic “Kissová’s book is carefully researched. Her interdisciplinary insight and discursive analysis of parliamentary debates on Slovak “workfare” policies illustrates the politicized colocation of Roma marginalization and economic disadvantage, starkly illustrating systemic racism dressed up as morally necessary regulatory reform. Her research has broader methodological relevance given how she utilizes governmentality, securitization and legitimation theory, unmasking how neoliberal economic assumptions and dog whistle politics, woven into political speech, works to demonize recipients as criminals, enact further social exclusion and heighten inequality while promoting existing prejudices. Her metaphor of “political farming” where ideas take root in fertile soil of the national landscape resulting in regulatory “products”—demonstrates how social reality and state regulation can be divorced from actual evidence, a process critically relevant to our times.” — Barbara J. Falk, Professor, Department of Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College/Fellow, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada This book explores the shift towards individual responsibility that is increasingly evident in welfare systems across the world. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across sociology, social policy, and political science, with a particular focus on migration, minorities, political discourse, securitisation, social justice and human rights. Lenka Kissová is a researcher at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
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    ISBN: 9783030549596
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 437 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series Statement: Global dynamics of social policy
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    Keywords: Social policy. ; Economic development. ; Welfare state. ; Political sociology. ; Education. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sozialpolitik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat
    Abstract: "Lutz Leisering continues his path-breaking analysis of social policy development outside the OECD world. This is the book students of global social policy and policy-makers have been waiting for." — Ian Gough FAcSS FRSA, Visiting Professor in CASE and Associate of GRI, London School of Economics; Emeritus Professor, University of Bath, UK "This is a sophisticated analysis which will stimulate future theoretical and empirical work on social protection around the world. It deserves to be widely consulted."— James Midgley, Professor of the Graduate School, University of California Berkeley, USA While the rise of social protection in the global North has been widely researched, we know little about the history of social protection in the global South. This volume investigates the experiences of four middle-income countries - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - from 1920 to 2020, analysing if, when, and how these countries articulated a concern about social issues and social cohesion. As the first in-depth study of the ideational foundations of social protection policies and programmes in these four countries, the contributions demonstrate that the social question was articulated in an increasingly inclusive way. The contributions identify the ideas, beliefs, and visions that underpinned the movement towards inclusion and social peace as well as counteracting doctrines. Drawing on perspectives from the sociology of knowledge, grounded theory, historiography, discourse analysis, and process tracing, the volume will be of interest to scholars across political science, sociology, political economy, history, area studies, and global studies, as well as development experts and policymakers.
    Note: Literaturangaben , Index: Seite 429-437 , Social protection in the global South — an ideational and historical approach , The early rise of social security in China : ideas and reforms, 1911–1949 , Social security : the career of a contested social idea in China during the reform era, 1978–2020 , Social policy in India : one hundred years of the (stifled) social question , Minoritarian labour welfare in India : the case of the employees' state insurance act of 1948 , The social question in pre-apartheid South Africa : race, religion and the state , A racialised social question : pension reform in apartheid South Africa , (Re)formulating the social question in post-apartheid South Africa : Zola Skweyiya, dignity, development and the welfare state , The anatomy of the social question and the evolution of the Brazilian social security system, 1919-2020 , Ideational bases of land reform in Brazil, 1910 to the present , One hundred years of social protection — the rise of the social question in Brazil, India, China and South Africa, 1920-2020
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 341 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political theory. ; Political sociology. ; Social justice. ; Human rights. ; Asia—Politics and government. ; Political economy.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. A Part Apart -- 3. Pax Britannica -- 4. A New Time -- 5. Graded Inequality and Untouchability -- 6. The Pre-requisites of Communism -- 7. What Path to Salvation? -- 8. Buddha or Karl Marx?.
    Abstract: “This is intellectual history at its best from one of India’s foremost feminist historians. V. Geetha pursues a recursive method as she maps the coordinates of Ambedkar’s vision of time and the ethical across his theorization of caste, colonial rule, labor, social reproduction and religion. In the context of several interlocutors and historical moments, with sparklingly clear prose, she shows how socialism was a ‘spectral presence’ in his thought as he worked to create forms of epistemic, ontological and socio-political rupture with the order of caste and untouchability.” —Smriti Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA This book offers a reading of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s engagement with the idea and practice of socialism in India by linking it to his lifelong political and philosophical concerns: the annihilation of the caste system, untouchability and the moral and philosophical systems that justify either. Rather than view his ideas through a socialist lens, the author suggests that it is important to measure the validity of socialist thought and practice in the Indian context, through his critique of the social totality. The book argues its case by presenting a broad and connected overview of his thought world and the global and local influences that shaped it. The themes that are taken up for discussion include: his understanding of the colonial rule and the colonial state; history and progress; nationalism and the questions he posed the socialists; his radical critique of the caste system and Brahmancal philosophies, and his unusual interpretation of Buddhism. V. Geetha is an independent scholar based in Chennai, India.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIII, 354 p. 4 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series Statement: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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    Keywords: Political philosophy. ; Political sociology. ; Industrial sociology. ; Social sciences—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. The Factory and the Family as Spaces of Capital (Himani Bannerji) -- 2. Marx on Gender, Race, and Social Reproduction: A Feminist Perspective (Silvia Federici) -- 3. Capital as a Social Relation: Form Analysis and Class Struggle (Bob Jessop) -- 4. Commodity and the Postmodern Spectacle (Alfonso Maurizio Iacono) -- 5. Primitive Accumulation as the Cause of Economic and Ecological Disaster (Kohei Saito) -- 6. Marx and Environmental Catastrophe (Gregory Claeys) -- 7. Finding a Way Out of the Anthropocene: The Theory of ‘Radical Needs’ and the Ecological Transition (Razmig Keucheyan) -- 8. Accumulation and Its Discontents: Migration and Nativism in Marx’s Capital and Late Manuscripts (David Norman Smith) -- 9. Marx on Migration and Industrial Reserve Army: Not to Be Misused! (Pietro Basso) -- 10. Globalisation, Migrant Labour, and Capitalism: Past and Present (Ranabir Samaddar) -- 11. The Experience of the Paris Commune and Marx’s Reflections on Communism (Marcello Musto) -- 12. Communism as Probability and Contingency (Álvaro García Linera) -- 13. Uniting Communism and Liberalism: An Unsolvable Task or a Most Urgent Necessity? (Michael Brie).
    Abstract: This book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism. The dual aim of this edited volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion of some of the classical themes of Marx’s thought and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently. Contributions of globally renowned scholars, from nine countries and multiple academic disciplines, offer diverse and innovative perspectives on Marx’s points of view about ecology, migration, gender, the capitalist mode of production, the labour movement, globalization, social relations, and the contours of a possible socialist alternative. The result is a collection that will prove indispensable for all specialists in the field and which suggests that Marx’s analyses are arguably resonating even more strongly today than they did in his own time. Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is author of Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018), and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (2020). Among his edited books there are The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (2020), and Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation (2021). His writings – available at www.marcellomusto.org – have been published worldwide in more than twenty languages.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 373 p. 14 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
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    Keywords: Critical criminology. ; Human rights. ; Political sociology. ; Public safety. ; Social justice. ; Welfare economics.
    Abstract: 0. Foreword: Emeritus Professor Robert Dingwall. 1. Conceptualising Covid-19 Times: Post-Politics And Social Harm- 2. To Lockdown Or Not To Lockdown? That Is The Question -- 3. Illness And Death In The Covid Epoch -- 4. Lockdown Inequalities: Covid-19 Losers -- 5. Pandemic Winners: Unlocking The Wealth Industries -- 6. Locked Down: Western Society -- 7. Locked In: The Elderly And Vulnerable -- 8. Locked Up: Prisoners, Youth Detainees And Asylum Seekers -- 9. Locked Out: Migrant Workers, Refugees, Stateless Citizens And The Homeless -- 10. The Dichotomy Of Lockdowns: Covid Compliance And Restriction Refusal -- 11. The Ideological Residue From Lockdowns -- 12. Endgames.
    Abstract: This book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus. Drawing on global, empirical data, it explores and exposes the social harms induced by lockdowns, many of which are 'hidden', including joblessness, mental health problems and an intensification of societal inequalities and divisions. It offers data-driven case studies on harms such as domestic violence, child abuse, the distress of being ordered to stay at home, and the numerous harms associated with the new wealth industries. It explores why some people weren't compliant with lockdown restrictions and examines the already vulnerable social groups who were disproportionally affected by lockdown including those who were locked in (care home residents), locked up (prisoners), and locked out (migrant workers, refugees). The book closes with a brief discussion on what the future might look like as we enter a post-Covid world, drawing on cutting-edge social theory. .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 319 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology
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    Keywords: Sociology. ; Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Political sociology. ; Semiotics. ; Political theory.
    Abstract: Introduction: political semiotics as a theory, methodology and method of relational political analysis -- Chapter 1: The ‘Relational Turn’ in the Social Sciences -- Chapter 2: Relational approach to the political: power, governance, and democracy -- Chapter 3: Three concepts of semiotics -- Chapter 4: A framework of political semiotics: political logic of the semiosphere -- Chapter 5: Political semiotics and the study of the political: power, governance and democracy -- Chapter 6: Political semiotics as a constitutive explanation and abductive research logic -- Chapter 7: From methodology to methods and applications: introducing political form analysis -- Chapter 8: Application of relational political analysis: political semiotic explanation of the constitution of digital threats -- Conclusion: The Subject and Agenda for Relational Political Analysis.
    Abstract: This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis. Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the political, which has implications for research methodology, culminating in a concrete method they call political form analysis. In addition, they sketch out several applications of this theory, methodology and method. They call their approach “political semiotics” and argue that it is a fruitful way of conducting research on power, governance and democracy – the core dimensions of the political – in a manner that is envisioned in numerous discussions of the “relational turn” in the social sciences. It is the first monograph that attempts to outline an approach to the political that would be relational throughout, from its meta theoretical and theoretical premises through to its methodological implications, methods and empirical applications. .
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    ISBN: 9783030420543
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 281 p.)
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    Series Statement: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
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    Keywords: Social policy. ; Industrial sociology. ; Political sociology.
    Abstract: 1. Governing the Work-Welfare Relationship -- 2. A Relationship Dominated by Employment Relations. - 3. Consolidating the Relationship. - 4. Complicating the Relationship. - 5. Restructuring the Relationship -- 6. Meeting in the Middle -- 7. International Implications. .
    Abstract: This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between employment relations and social policy. Utilising longstanding and more recent developments in historical institutionalist methodology, Ramia investigates the relationship between these two policy domains in the context of social protection theory. He argues that treating employment relations as dynamic, and as inextricably intertwined with changes in the welfare state over time, allows for more accurate portrayal of similarity and difference in social protection. The book will be of most interest to researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in social policy, employment relations, public policy, social and political history, and comparative politics. .
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    ISBN: 9783030384241
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 623 p.)
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Political sociology. ; Political theory.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I: Intimations of Postcoloniality -- Chapter 1: Postcoloniality and Sociology -- Chapter 2: Postcoloniality and Decoloniality -- Part II: Intimations of Globality -- Chapter 3: Globality and Sociology -- Chapter 4: Globality and Connectivity -- Part III: Intimations of Canonicity -- Chapter 5: Canonicity and Sociology -- Chapter 6: Canonicity and Exclusivity -- Part IV: Intimations of Historicity -- Chapter 7: Historicity and Sociology -- Chapter 8: Historicity and Novelty -- Part V: Intimations of Disciplinarity -- Chapter 9: Disciplinarity and Sociology -- Chapter 10: Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity -- Part VI: Intimations of Hegemony -- Chapter 11: Hegemony and Sociology -- Chapter 12: Hegemony and Counterhegemony -- Part VII: Intimations of Reflexivity -- Epilogue: Critical Remarks -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: “A comprehensive and judicious account of the intellectual and material state of sociology, based on omnivorous reading and incisive analysis. The writing is beautifully clear and the book is a major contribution to the self-understanding of the discipline.” — William Outhwaite, Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University, UK This book examines key trends, debates, and challenges in twenty-first-century sociology. To this end, it focuses on significant issues surrounding the nature of sociology (‘What is sociology?’), the history of sociology (‘How has sociology evolved?’), and the study of sociology (‘How can or should we make sense of sociology?’). These issues have been, and will continue to be, essential to the creation of conceptually informed, methodologically rigorous, and empirically substantiated research programmes in the discipline. Over the past years, however, there have been numerous disputes and controversies concerning the future of sociology. Particularly important in this respect are recent and ongoing discussions on the possibilities of developing new – and, arguably, post-classical – forms of sociology. The central assumption underlying most of these projects is the contention that a comprehensive analysis of the principal challenges faced by global society requires the construction of a sociology capable of accounting for the interconnectedness of social actors and social structures across time and space. This book provides a cutting-edge overview of crucial past, present, and possible future trends, debates, and challenges shaping the pursuit of sociological inquiry.
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    ISBN: 9783030382001
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 384 p. 14 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    Series Statement: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
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    Keywords: Social inequality. ; Public policy. ; Social policy. ; Social structure. ; Political sociology. ; Political planning. ; Equality.
    Abstract: Part I Introduction -- 1 External Actors and Social Protection in the Global South: An Overview, Carina Schmitt -- 2 Advancing Transnational Approaches to Social Protection in the Global South, Amanda Shriwise -- Part II The Influence of the Colonial Legacy and Cold War on Social Protection -- 3 Cold War and Social Protection in Burma and Malaysia, Michele Mioni and Klaus Petersen -- 4 The Influence of Colonialism and Donors on Social Policies in Kenya and Tanzania,Daniel Künzler -- 5 The Effects of Colonialism on Social Protection in South Africa and Botswana, Jeremy Seekings -- 6 The Colonial Legacy and the Rise of Social Assistance in the Global South, Carina Schmitt -- 7 Colonial Legacies in International Aid: Policy Priorities and Actor Constellations, Bastian Becker -- Part III The Influence of Donors on Social Protection -- 8 International Donors and Social Policy Diffusion in the Global South, Marina Dodlova -- 9 The World Bank and the Contentious Politics of Global Social Spending, Rahmi Çemen and Erdem Yörük -- 10 The Limits of the Influence of International Donors: Social Protection in Botswana, Isaac Chinyoka and Marianne S. Ulriksen -- 11 External Donors and Social Protection in Africa: A Case Study of Zimbabwe, Stephen Devereux and Samuel Kapingidza -- Part IV Critical Reflections and Conclusion -- 12 Transnational Actors and the Diffusion of Social Policies: An Ideational Approach, Privilege Haang’andu and Daniel Béland -- 13 Transnational Actors and Institutionalization of Social Protection in the Global South, Armando Barrientos -- 14 Critical Assessment and Outlook, Carina Schmitt, Bastian Becker, Judith M. Ebeling, and Amanda Shriwise.
    Abstract: This open access volume addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until today, analysing the influence of colonial powers, superpowers during the Cold War and contemporary donor agencies. Following an introduction to the analysis of external actors in social policy making in the Global South, the contributions explore which external actors were dominant in the decades after World War II, and how they shaped early and contemporary social protection making in developing countries. The latter half of the collection elucidates important players in the contemporary transnational social policy arena, such as donor organizations and international organizations, and critically evaluates the potential for and limits of the explanatory power of external actors in social protection making in the Global South, considering the relative contribution of external and domestic influences. By examining how transnational relationships and external actors have influenced the formation, development and transformation of social policies in the developing world, this collection will be an invaluable resource for scholars interested in social protection in the Global South from a range of disciplines. These include political science, social policy, and sociology, as well as historians of the welfare state, international relations scholars and scholars working on global and transnational social policy and development policy. .
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    ISBN: 9783030330316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 539 p. 24 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    Series Statement: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kutter, Amelie Legitimation in the European Union
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    Keywords: Discourse analysis. ; European Union. ; Political communication. ; Intercultural communication. ; Political sociology. ; Hochschulschrift ; Europäische Union ; Legitimation ; Politische Kommunikation
    Abstract: Chapter 1: If Only It Was a Different Polity: Introduction to the Book -- Chapter 2: Advancing the Linguistic Turn: Premises of Conceptual Work -- Chapter 3: Discursive Legitimation: Polity-Construction -- Chapter 4: Discursive Europeanisation: Recontextualisation -- Chapter 5: The Constitution Process in the Discourse Field of Multilateral Negotiation -- Chapter 6: Recontextualising the Constitutional Agenda in Polish and French Media Debates -- Chapter 7: Constructing the Polity Nexus: (De-)Legitimising the EU in Mediated Controversies in Poland and France -- Chapter 8: Towards a Discursive Political Sociology of European Integration: Conclusions.
    Abstract: “This groundbreaking book analyses European Integration in new theoretical and methodological terms. The insightful combination of Critical Discourse Studies, communication and media studies and political sciences is truly impressive, tracing in systematic detail the transformation of EU polity in recent years. A must-read for graduate students and scholars alike.”-- Ruth Wodak, Emeritus Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University, UK This book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the question of how political legitimacy is constructed in the increasingly contested postnational setting of the European Union. Drawing on the example of the controversy about the EU constitution and the use of ‘EU constitution speak’ in commentaries published by Polish and French broadsheets, it reveals the transformation that constructions of political authority and association undergo when they are being transposed from the discourse field of multilateral negotiation to that of national news media. Through an original combination of the linguistic theory of discourse developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, Bourdieu’s field theory and notion of symbolic power, and political thought on polity-building, it develops a framework for the discourse study of legitimation and Europeanisation, which suggests itself for application beyond the case studies in the book. To students of European integration, it demonstrates the potential these concepts have for unravelling the implicit practices of postnational polity building. Discourse researchers, on the other hand, will discover how detailed text analyses gain significance in debates related to the macro level of political organisation when guided by sociological and political theory. Amelie Kutter is a Lecturer and Researcher in European Studies at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783030358365
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 316 p. 55 illus., 50 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
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    Keywords: Critical criminology. ; Political sociology. ; Social sciences. ; Imperialism.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction to Research on Identifications -- 2. Names and Arguments: Algerians and Descendants of Algerian Immigrants in France -- 3. French and Algerian Identifications in the Context of the Colonial Period -- 4. Family and Religious Identifications -- 5. Identification with Immigrants -- 6. Identification with the Suburbs -- 7. Class Identifications -- 8. Conclusions. .
    Abstract: This book is an innovative presentation of the way in which the descendants of Muslim immigrants from Algeria in France perceive and deal with multiple social identifications. Against the background of the theory and methodology (such as Saussure's sign theory, Znaniecki's sociology, and Brubaker and Cooper's concepts), Kubera offers a new analysis into identity in a multicultural society. The book revolves around a combination of the modernist and post-modernist paradigms: highlighting both the constant and situational aspects of social identity. By focusing on identifications, the author shows how to overcome the problem of "intangibility" of identity in research practice. Touching on colonialism, gender, religion, migration, and racism, this will be an important contribution to students and scholars across sociology, anthropology, political science, law, and international relations.
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    ISBN: 9783030450816
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 287 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Political theory. ; Political sociology. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: 1. Society and Power -- 2. The reshaping of man and the birth of totalitarian power -- 3. The conditions enabling individual choice and the limitation of power -- 4. Pareto and Machiavellianism: the problem and the errors -- 5. Voluntary cooperation and unlimited democracy.
    Abstract: Building from the level of individual interaction, this book intends to shed light on what the author terms "infrasocial power" and the relation between this individual-actor oriented level and public power. In overviewing the origins of power, the author allows for the disaggregation of the social fabric, thus making it possible to: 1) isolate the “sequence” in which the phenomenon of superordination and subordination materialises; 2) identify the institutional “instruments” which can be used to limit infrasocial power; 3) discriminate between a social position achieved through engagement with others (and what we are capable of doing for them) from one occupied by means of force and deception; 4) explain the birth and function of public power; and 5) analyze the consequences produced by different political regimes.
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    ISBN: 9783030440626
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 284 p. 8 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
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    Keywords: Welfare state. ; Political sociology. ; Social sciences—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Shifting Solidarities in European Societies; Ine Van Hoyweghen, Gert Meyers & Valeria Pugliano -- Part 1. Welfare, Labour and Migration -- 2. Working on Soldarity; Colin Crouch -- 3. Solidarity 'at Work' in Times of Change; Glenn Morgan & Valeria Pugliano -- 4. Social Europe: A New Integration-Demarcation Conflict?; Bart Meuleman, Sharon Baute & Koen Abts -- 5. Economic Fluctuation and Shifts in Popular Solidarity with Unemployed People; Wilfred Uunk & Wim Van Oorschot -- Part 2. Biomedicine, Healthcare and Technology -- 6. Individualising Solidarities; Liz McFall -- 7. Shifting Solidarities: Personalisation in Insurance and Medicine; Barbara Prainsack & Ine Van Hoyweghen -- 8. Automating the Welfare State: Consequences and Challenges for the Organisation of Solidarity; Wim Van Lancker -- 9. Shifting Organisational Solidarity in Health and Social Care Ecosystems; Ezra Dessers & Sam Pless -- Part 3. Family, Religion, Gender and Culture -- 10. Enacting Solidarity; Rudi Laermans -- 11. Shifts in Integenerational Solidarity: Eldercare in the Turkish Community of a Belgian City; Veerle Draulans & Wouter De Tavernier -- 12. Religion and Solidarity: The Vicissitudes of Protestantism; Dick Houtman, Anneke Pons & Rudi Laermans -- 13. World Population Explosion, Migration and Solidarity in Europe; Jan Van Bavel.
    Abstract: “There is no more important issue than the future of solidarity. This book outlines the different forms and institutional arenas of solidarity, how it is shifting, and how it can be advanced.” —Professor Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University, USA and London School of Economics, UK “Shifting Solidarities gives us an intelligent version of all that is in play today around the notion of solidarity, its persistent importance and shifting character.” —Professor Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, USA “In light of globalization, digitalization and eco-transformation, we need to revive the notion of solidarity. As this book shows, Europe should live up to its own history and reclaim its ambition in terms of (geo)political and socio-economic relationships. A timely wake-up call for all concerned Europeans.” —Professor José van Dijck, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Shifting Solidarities offers a comprehensive analysis of solidarity at a time when major social transformations have penetrated the heart of European societies, disrupting markets and labour relations, transforming social practices, and affecting the moral infrastructure of European welfare states. Factors such as the economic crisis, migration, digitalisation, and climate change all contribute to a sense of emergency. This volume considers how, in times of crisis, there are calls for solidarity by various new social and political actors and movements. The contributions present a broad array of empirical work and critical scholarship, zooming in on shifting solidarities in various domains of social life, including work, social policy, health care, religion, family, gender and migration. This compelling volume provides a unique resource for understanding solidarity in contemporary Europe, and will be a vital text for students and scholars across sociology, social policy, cultural studies, employment/labour markets and organisation studies, migration studies and European studies.
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