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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472904037 , 0472904035
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Weiser center for emerging democracies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cho, Joan E Seeds of mobilization
    Keywords: Since 1960 ; Democracy ; Authoritarianism ; Autoritarisme - Corée du Sud ; Authoritarianism ; Democracy ; Politics and government ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Korea (South) Politics and government 1960-1988 ; Korea (South) Politics and government 1988-2002 ; Korea (South) Politics and government 2002- ; Corée du Sud - Politique et gouvernement - 1960-1988 ; Corée du Sud - Politique et gouvernement - 1988-2002 ; Corée du Sud - Politique et gouvernement - 2002- ; Korea (South)
    Abstract: South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a testament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilization takes a closer look at the history of South Korea to show that Korea's advance to democracy was not linear. Instead, while Korea's national economy grew dramatically under the regimes of Park Chung Hee (1961-79) and Chun Doo Hwan (1980-88), the political system first became increasingly authoritarian. Because modernization was founded on industrial complexes and tertiary education, these structures initially helped bolster the authoritarian regimes. In the long run, however, these structures later facilitated the anti-regime protests by various social movement groups-most importantly, workers and students-that ultimately brought democracy to the country. By using original subnational protest event datasets, government publications, oral interviews, and publications from labor and student movement organizations, Joan E. Cho takes a long view of democratization that incorporates the decades before and after South Korea's democratic transition. She demonstrates that Korea's democratization resulted from a combination of factors from below and from above, and that authoritarian development itself was a hidden root cause of democratic development in South Korea. Seeds of Mobilization shows how socioeconomic development did not create a steady pressure toward democracy but acted as a "double-edged sword" that initially stabilized autocratic regimes before destabilizing them over time
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903733 , 047290373X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 212 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: China understandings today
    Keywords: Since 2000 ; Power (Social sciences) 21st century ; Public opinion 21st century ; Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) - Chine - 21e siècle ; Opinion publique - Chine - 21e siècle ; Politics and government ; Power (Social sciences) ; Public opinion ; Social conditions ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; China Politics and government 2002- ; China Social conditions 2000- ; Chine - Conditions sociales - 2000- ; China
    Abstract: One of the most significant global events in the last forty years has been the rise of China-- economically, technologically, politically, and militarily. The question on people's minds for decades has been whether China will replace the United States as a superpower in the near future. But for China, this power must be comprehensive -- having strong economic and militant forces are only two pieces of the puzzle. China must also possess soft power, such as attractive ideologies, values, and culture. China as Number One? explores China's soft powers through the eyes of Chinese citizens. Utilizing data from the World Values Survey, the contributors to this collection explore the potential soft power of a rising China by examining its residents' social values. A comprehensive study of changes and continuities in the political and social values of Chinese citizens, the book examines findings in the context of evolutionary modernization theory and cross-national comparison
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    Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903399 , 047290339X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Configurations: critical studies of world politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rogenhofer, Julius Maximilian Decisiveness and fear of disorder
    Keywords: Decision making ; Political leadership ; Crisis management ; Prise de décision - Allemagne ; Gestion de crise - Allemagne ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration ; LAW / Emigration & Immigration ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Germany Politics and government 1990-
    Abstract: Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder examines how democratic representatives make decisions in crisis situations. By analyzing parliamentary asylum debates from Germany's Asylum Compromise in 1992-1993 and the 2015-2016 refugee crisis, Julius Rogenhofer identifies representatives' ability to project decisiveness as a crucial determinant for whether the rights and demands of irregular migrants were adequately considered in democratic decision-making. Both crisis situations showcase an emotive dimension to the parliamentary meaning-making process. As politicians confront fears of social and political disorder, they focus on appearing decisive in the eyes of the public and fellow representatives, even at the expense of human rights considerations and inclusive deliberation processes. Rogenhofer shows how his theoretical approach allows us to reinterpret a range of crisis situations beyond the irregular migration context, including democracies' initial responses to Covid-19, the European Sovereign Debt Crisis, and United States climate politics. These additional case studies help position concerns with decisiveness amid the challenges that populism and technocracy increasingly pose to representative democracies
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191) and index
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    Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan
    ISBN: 9780472904280
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cohen, Mollie J None of the above
    Keywords: Voting ; Elections ; Political candidates Public opinion ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Protest movements ; Vote - Amérique latine ; Élections - Amérique latine ; Candidats (Élections) - Amérique latine - Opinion publique ; Participation politique - Amérique latine ; Democracy ; Elections ; Political candidates - Public opinion ; Political participation ; Politics and government ; Protest movements ; Voting ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Latin America Politics and government ; Amérique latine - Politique et gouvernement ; Latin America
    Abstract: Around the world each year, millions of citizens turn out to vote but leave their ballots empty or spoil them. Increasingly, campaigns have emerged that promote "invalid" votes like these. Why do citizens choose to cast blank and spoiled votes? And how do campaigns mobilizing the invalid vote influence this decision? None of the Above answers these questions using evidence from presidential and gubernatorial elections in eighteen Latin American democracies. Author Mollie J. Cohen draws on a broad range of methods and sources, incorporating data from electoral management bodies, nationally representative surveys, survey experiments, focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and news sources. Contrary to received wisdom, this book shows that most citizens cast blank or spoiled votes in presidential elections on purpose. By participating in invalid vote campaigns, citizens can voice their concerns about low-quality candidates while also expressing a preference for high-quality democracy. Campaigns promoting blank and spoiled votes come about more often, and succeed at higher rates, when incumbent politicians undermine the quality of elections. Surprisingly, invalid vote campaigns can shore up the quality of democracy in the short term. None of the Above shows that swings in blank and spoiled vote rates can serve as a warning about the trajectory of a country's democracy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472221639 , 9780472904716 , 047290471X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als König, Thomas, 1961- Dynamics of European integration
    Keywords: European Union Politics and government ; European Union Politics and government 20th century ; European Union Politics and government 21st century ; European Union ; 1900-2099 ; European federation ; Construction européenne ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics ; HISTORY / Europe / Western ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; European federation ; Politics and government
    Abstract: In Europe's recent history, there have been several challenges to the strength of the European Union-Brexit, COVID, financial crises, and global tensions-bringing an increased need to understand the ways that the European Union (EU) could successfully stay together or fall apart. In examining how the European Union has changed since 1993, important puzzles have emerged, including how national government functions are transferred to the EU without reforming the EU, how increased transparency is announced while decisions are approved in informal meetings, and how the effects of the polarizing rise of Euroscepticism can be managed to still promote the formation of solidarity and trust among Europeans. To understand these puzzles, Thomas KoÌ⁸nig introduces a new theory of (supra)national partyism to help explain the causes and consequences of choices made by political leaders for Europe. He uses a game-theoretical perspective to look at how conditions for leaders change through accessions of new members, shocks, and crises, and separates institutional choices into two different games played by office- and policy-seeking political leaders-the interstate summit game and the national game of party competition. The Dynamics of European Integration reveals how the reorganization of electoral systems can harness dissensus and polarization among diverse national constituencies to enable the promotion of solidarity and trust in the EU
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-206) and index
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903238 , 0472903233
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 191 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2244
    Keywords: Writing History ; Political aspects ; Writing History ; Social aspects ; Alphabet Political aspects ; Alphabet Social aspects ; Écriture - Histoire - Aspect politique ; Écriture - Histoire - Aspect social ; Alphabet - Aspect politique ; Alphabet - Aspect social ; Writing - Social aspects ; History ; Electronic books. ; History
    Abstract: The emergence of the alphabet in ancient Greece, usually heralded as the first step in the inexorable march toward reason and progress, in fact signaled the introduction of a chance technology that hijacked the future, with devastating consequences for humanity. By investigating an array of cultural artifacts, ranging from Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" to the Oracle at Delphi to Luther's challenge to the Church, this book demonstrates how the apparently benign emergence of writing made possible far-ranging systems of organized domination and unprecedented levels of violence. The Violence of the Letter considers how a twenty-six letter code changed the face of the world, and not always for the better
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Prelude -- Introduction -- 1. A Brief Technical Detour -- 2. The Trauma of Literacy -- 3. The Alphabet and Reproduction -- 4. Plato and the Forms of Alphabetic Writing -- 5. The Alphabet and Money -- Interlude -- 6. Letters of Blood and Fire -- 7. The Subject Is Always Alphabetized -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index
    URL: JSTOR
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903498 , 0472903497
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 199 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: United States ; Constitution (United States) ; Civil rights ; Constitutions States ; Civil rights ; Constitutions - U.S. states ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; United States
    Abstract: Listing every right that a constitution should protect is hard. American constitution drafters often list a few famous rights such as freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and free exercise of religion, plus a handful of others. However, we do not need to enumerate every liberty because there is another way to protect them: an "etcetera clause." It states that there are other rights beyond those specifically listed: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Yet scholars are divided on whether the Ninth Amendment itself actually does protect unenumerated rights, and the Supreme Court has almost entirely ignored it. Regardless of what the Ninth Amendment means, two-thirds of state constitutions have equivalent provisions, or "Baby Ninth Amendments," worded similarly to the Ninth Amendment. This book is the story of how the "Baby Ninths" came to be and what they mean. Unlike the controversy surrounding the Ninth Amendment, the meaning of the Baby Ninths is straightforward: they protect individual rights that are not otherwise enumerated. They are an "etcetera, etcetera" at the end of a bill of rights. This book argues that state judges should do their duty and live up to their own constitutions to protect the rights "retained by the people" that these "etcetera clauses" are designed to guarantee. The fact that Americans have adopted these provisions so many times in so many states demonstrates that unenumerated rights are not only protected by state constitutions, but that they are popular. Unenumerated rights are not a weird exception to American constitutional law. They are at the center of it. We should start treating constitutions accordingly
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-189) and index
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    Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press
    ISBN: 9781943208333 , 1943208336
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 331 pages)
    Series Statement: Law, Literature & Culture 1
    Keywords: Race discrimination Law and legislation ; History ; African Americans Legal status, laws, etc ; History ; Law Social aspects ; History
    Abstract: This first title in the “Law, Literature & Culture” series uses six legal disputes from the South Carolina courts to illuminate the complex legal history of race in the U.S. South from slavery through Jim Crow. The first two cases—one criminal, one civil—both illuminate the extreme oppressiveness of slavery. The third explores labor relations between newly emancipated Black agricultural workers and white landowners during Reconstruction. The remaining cases investigate three prominent features of the Jim Crow system: segregated schools, racially biased juries, and lynching, respectively. Throughout the century under consideration, South Carolina’s legal system obsessively drew racial lines, always to the detriment of non-white people, but it occasionally provided a public forum within which racial oppression could be challenged. The book emphasizes how dramatically the degree of legal oppressiveness experienced by Black South Carolinians varied during the century under study, based largely on the degree of Black access to political and legal power
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903320 , 0472903322
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 261 pages) , illustrations
    Additional Information: Supplement (work) Rosenthal, Aaron J state you see : how government visibility creates political distrust and racial Inequality
    Keywords: Racial justice ; Racism ; Trust Political aspects ; Public administration Moral and ethical aspects ; Transparency in government ; Public administration - Moral and ethical aspects ; Race relations - Political aspects ; Racial justice ; Racism ; Social conditions ; Social policy ; Transparency in government ; Trust - Political aspects ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; United States Race relations ; Political aspects ; United States Social policy ; United States Social conditions ; United States
    Abstract: The State You See uncovers a racial gap in the way the American government appears in people's lives. It makes it clear that public policy changes over the last fifty years have driven all Americans to distrust the government that they see in their lives, even though Americans of different races are not seeing the same kind of government. For white people, these policy changes have involved a rising number of generous benefits submerged within America's tax code, which taken together cost the government more than Social Security and Medicare combined. Political attention focused on this has helped make welfare and taxes more visible representations of government for white Americans. As a result, white people are left with the misperception that government does nothing for them, apart from take their tax money to spend on welfare. Distrust of government is the result. For people of color, distrust is also rampant but for different reasons. Over the last fifty years, America has witnessed increasingly overbearing policing and swelling incarceration numbers. These changes have disproportionately impacted communities of color, helping to make the criminal legal system a unique visible manifestation of government in these communities. While distrust of government emerges in both cases, these different roots lead to different consequences. White people are mobilized into politics by their distrust, feeling that they must speak up in order to reclaim their misspent tax dollars. In contrast, people of color are pushed away from government due to a belief that engaging in American elections will yield the same kind of unresponsiveness and violence that comes from interactions with the police. The result is a perpetuation of the same kind of racial inequality that has always been present in American democracy. The State You See is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the American government engages in subtle forms of discrimination and how it continues to uphold racial inequality in the present day
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-297) and index
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903887 , 0472903888
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: African perspectives
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sacks, Ruth, 1977- Congo style
    DDC: 111/.8509675112
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Modernism (Aesthetics) ; Art and state ; Architecture and state ; Art and society ; Architecture and society ; Architecture ; Architecture, Colonial ; Art, Colonial ; Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic) ; History ; Kinshasa (Congo) Buildings, structures, etc ; Congo (Democratic Republic)
    Abstract: Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the total artworks of Art Nouveau to the aggrandizing sites of post-independence Kinshasa, Congo Style investigates the experiential qualities of man-made environments intended to entertain, delight, seduce and impress. In her study of visual culture, Ruth Sacks sets out to reinstate the compelling wonder of nationalist architecture from Kinshasa's post-independence era, such as the Tower of the Exchange (1974), Gécamines Tower (1977), and the artworks and exhibitions that accompanied them. While exploring post-independence nation-building, this book examines how the underlying ideology of Belgian Art Nouveau, a celebrated movement in Belgium, led to the dominating early colonial settler buildings of the ABC Hotels (circa 1908-13). Congo Style combines Sacks's practice as a visual artist and her academic scholarship to provide an original study of early colonial and independence-era modernist sites in their African context
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    ISBN: 9780472903702 , 0472903705
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 198 pages) , illustrations
    DDC: 809.2032
    Keywords: Experimental theater History 21st century ; Race in the theater History 21st century ; Gender identity in the theater History 21st century ; Theater Religious aspects 21st century ; History ; Theater Political aspects 21st century ; History
    Abstract: Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story. Beginning in the tumultuous 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the wake of the Los Angeles riots, rebellious spectators in American and British theaters broke with theater decorum and voiced their radical interpretations of shows that were not meant to be radical. In doing so, audiences tried to understand the complex racial, gender, and religious politics of their times, while insisting that liberal societies fulfill their promise of dignity for all. Stefka Mihaylova argues that such non-conforming viewing amounts to an avant-garde of its own: a bold reimagining of how we live together and tell stories of our lives together, aimed to achieve liberalism's promise. In telling this story, she analyzes the production and reception politics of works by Susan-Lori Parks, Sarah Kane, Forced Entertainment, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, and Young Jean Lee, as well as non-theatrical controversies such as the conflict over Halloween costumes at Yale in 2015. At the core of spectators' discontent, this book suggests, is an effort to figure out how to get along with people different from ourselves in the diverse U.S. and British societies in which we live
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: "Can We All Along?" Get -- Chapter 1: The Radical Formalism of Suzan-Lori Parks and Sarah Kane -- Chapter 2: A Spectator Prepares: Forced Entertainment's Theater of Critical Feeling -- Chapter 3: The Behzti Riot as a Contemporary Avant-Garde -- Chapter 4: Feeling Bad about Being White: Young Jean Lee's Theater and the Progressive Avant-Garde -- Coda: The Liberal Individual's Postmodern Return -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index
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    ISBN: 9780472903153 , 0472903152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages) , illustrations, map
    Keywords: 2000-2099 ; Energy policy Case studies History 21st century ; Renewable energy sources Case studies States 21st century ; Law and legislation ; Public utilities Case studies Political aspects ; States' rights (American politics) Philosophy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Energy policy ; Case studies ; History ; United States
    Abstract: In recent years, the federal government's increasing inability to address major societal challenges has arguably hampered America's commitment to renewable energy initiatives. Individual U.S. states have stepped into this void and adopted their own policies, leading some to believe that the states can propel America's renewable energy industry forward. However, we know little about how legislative and regulatory dynamics within America's states might accelerate or hinder renewable energy policy creation. In Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone?, Srinivas Parinandi explores how states have devised their own novel policies, and how the political workings of legislatures and public utilities commissions have impacted state renewable energy policy design. Through the meticulous study of nearly three decades of state-level renewable energy policy-making, he finds that their creation is primarily driven by legislatures, and that ideologically liberal legislatures largely push the envelope. The book suggests that having a predominantly state-driven renewable energy effort can lead to uneven and patchwork-based policy development outcomes, and a possible solution is to try to more successfully federalize these issues. Parinandi urges readers, scholars, and policy practitioners to consider whether a state-led effort is adequate enough to handle the task of building momentum for renewable energy in one of the world's largest electricity markets
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903924 , 0472903926
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 196 pages) , illustrations (some color)
    Series Statement: China understandings today
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 378.1981
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Chinese students 20th century ; Authors, Chinese 20th century ; Art, Chinese 20th century ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History 20th century ; Écrivains chinois - France - Paris - 20e siècle ; Art chinois - France - Paris - 20e siècle ; Influence littéraire, artistique, etc - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Art, Chinese ; Authors, Chinese ; Chinese students ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Intellectual life ; History ; Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century ; Paris (France) - Vie intellectuelle - 20e siècle ; France - Paris
    Abstract: A brief stay in France was, for many Chinese workers and Chinese Communist Party leaders, a vital stepping stone for their careers during the cultural and political push to modernize China after World War I. For the Chinese students who went abroad specifically to study Western art and literature, these trips meant something else entirely. Set against the backdrop of interwar Paris, Paris and the Art of Transposition uncovers previously marginalized archives to reveal the artistic strategies employed by Chinese artists and writers in the early twentieth-century transnational imaginary and to explain why Paris played such a central role in the global reception of modern Chinese literature and art. While previous studies of Chinese modernism have focused on how Western modernist aesthetics were adapted or translated to the Chinese context, Angie Chau does the opposite by turning to Paris in the Chinese imaginary and discussing the literary and visual artwork of five artists who moved between France and China: the painter Chang Yu, the poet Li Jinfa, art critic Fu Lei, the painter Pan Yuliang, and the writer Xu Xu. Chau draws the idea of transposition from music theory where it refers to shifting music from one key or clef to another, or to adapting a song originally composed for one instrument to be played by another. Transposing transposition to the study of art and literature, Chau uses the term to describe a fluid and strategic art practice that depends on the tension between foreign and familiar, new and old, celebrating both novelty and recognition--a process that occurs when a text gets placed into a fresh context
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903894 , 0472903896
    Language: English
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brannigan, Erin Persistence of dance
    Keywords: 1900-2099 ; Art and dance ; Choreography History 20th century ; Choreography History 21st century ; Modern dance History 20th century ; Modern dance History 21st century ; Art et danse ; Chorégraphie - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Chorégraphie - Histoire - 21e siècle ; Art and dance ; Choreography ; Modern dance ; PERFORMING ARTS / General ; History
    Abstract: There is a category of choreographic practice with a lineage stretching back to mid-20th century North America that has re-emerged since the early 1990s: dance as a contemporary art medium. Such work belongs as much to the gallery as does video art or sculpture and is distinct from both performance art and its history as well as from theater-based dance. The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art explores this history by looking at the continuities and differences between the second-wave dance avant-garde in the 1950s-1970s and the third-wave starting in the 1990s. Through close readings of key artists such as Maria Hassabi, Sarah Michelson, Boris Charmatz, Meg Stuart, Philip Gehmacher, Adam Linder, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Shelley Lasica and Latai Taumoepeau, The Persistence of Dance traces the relationship between the third-wave and gallery-based work. Looking at these artists highlights how the discussions and practices associated with 'conceptual dance' resonate with the categories of conceptual and post-conceptual art as well as with the critical work on the function of visual art categories. Brannigan concludes that within the current post-disciplinary context, there is a persistence of dance and that a model of post-dance exists that encompasses dance as a contemporary art medium
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-339) and index
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press | Baltimore, Md : Project MUSE
    ISBN: 9780472133383 , 0472133381 , 9780472221066 , 047222106X , 9780472039265 , 0472039261 , 9780472903832 , 0472903837
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Trump, Donald ; Neoliberalism ; State, The ; Constitutional law ; Administrative law ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; United States Politics and government 2017-
    Abstract: The sudden emergence of the Trump nation surprised nearly everyone, including journalists, pundits, political consultants, and academics. When Trump won in 2016, his ascendancy was widely viewed as a fluke. Yet time showed it was instead the rise of a movement--angry, militant, revanchist, and unabashedly authoritarian. How did this happen? Twilight of the American State offers a sweeping exploration of how law and legal institutions helped prepare the grounds for this rebellious movement. The controversial argument is that, viewed as a legal matter, the American state is not just a liberal democracy, as most Americans believe. Rather, the American state is composed of an uneasy and unstable combination of different versions of the state--liberal democratic, administered, neoliberal, and dissociative. Each of these versions arose through its own law and legal institutions. Each emerged at different times historically. Each was prompted by deficits in the prior versions. Each has survived displacement by succeeding versions. All remain active in the contemporary moment--creating the political-legal dysfunction America confronts today. Pierre Schlag maps out a big picture view of the tribulations of the American state. The book abjures conventional academic frameworks, sets aside prescriptions for quick fixes, dispenses with lamentations about polarization, and bypasses historical celebrations of the American Spirit
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903474 , 0472903470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (402 pages) , illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
    Series Statement: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies number 99
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Suzuki, Seijun Criticism and interpretation ; Suzuki, Seijun - 1923-2017 ; Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha History 20th century ; Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha ; 1900-1999 ; Exploitation films History 20th century ; Horror films History 20th century ; Experimental films History 20th century ; Experimental films ; Exploitation films ; Horror films ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Japan
    Abstract: In the late 1950s, Suzuki Seijun was an unknown, anxious low-ranking film director churning out so-called program pictures for Japan's most successful movie studio, Nikkatsu. In the early 1960s, he met with modest success in directing popular movies about yakuza gangsters and mild exploitation films featuring prostitutes and teenage rebels. In this book, Peter A. Yacavone argues that Suzuki became an unlikely cinematic rebel and, with hindsight, one of the most important voices in the global cinema of the 1960s. Working from within the studio system, Suzuki almost single-handedly rejected the restrictive filmmaking norms of the postwar period and expanded the form and language of popular cinema. This artistic rebellion proved costly when Suzuki was fired in 1967 and virtually blacklisted by the studios, but Suzuki returned triumphantly to the scene of world cinema in the 1980s and 1990s with a series of critically celebrated, avant-garde tales of the supernatural and the uncanny. This book provides a well-informed, philosophically oriented analysis of Suzuki's 49 feature films
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-396) and index
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903313 , 0472903314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 319 pages) , illustrations
    Keywords: Symbolism in politics Case studies ; Political culture Case studies ; Social conflict Case studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Political culture ; Social conflict ; Symbolism in politics ; Case studies
    Abstract: When we observe protest marches, striking workers on picket lines, and insurgent movements in the world today, a litany of objects routinely fill our field of vision. Some such objects are ubiquitous the world over, like flags, banners, and placards. Others are situationally unique: Who could have anticipated the historical importance of a flower placed in the barrel of a gun, a flaming torch, a sea of umbrellas, a motorist's yellow vest, a feather headdress, an AK-47, or a knitted pink hat? This book explores the "stuff" at the heart of protests, revolutions, civil wars, and other contentious political events, with particular focus on those objects that have or acquire symbolic importance. In the context of "contentious politics" (disruptive political episodes where people try to change societies without going through institutions), certain objects can divide and unite social groups, tell stories, make declarations, spark controversy, and even trigger violent upheavals.This book draws together scholars from a variety of fields to discuss symbolic objects in contentious politics: their meanings, uses, functions, and social responses. In bringing these phenomena together, this book offers a serious, distinctive, and cohesive theoretical contribution that draws upon diverse scholarly work in order to form the building blocks for future inquiry in the field. The aim is not merely to "close the gap" in the literature, but to create space in the field for further and more fruitful inquiry
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    ISBN: 9780472903054 , 0472903055
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Security. Cooperation. Governance
    Keywords: Border security ; Border security ; Border security ; Border security ; Border security ; Border security ; Sécurité frontalière - Région frontalière canado-américaine ; Sécurité frontalière - Canada ; Border security ; International relations ; Politics and government ; Security systems ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Canadian-American Border Region Security measures ; Canadian-American Border Region Politics and government ; United States Relations ; Canada Relations ; United States Commerce ; Security measures ; Canada Commerce ; Security measures ; Canadian-American Border Region Security measures ; Canadian-American Border Region Politics and government ; United States Relations ; Canada Relations ; United States Commerce ; Security measures ; Canada Commerce ; Security measures ; Région frontalière canado-américaine - Sécurité - Mesures ; Canada - Relations - États-Unis ; États-Unis - Commerce - Canada - Sécurité - Mesures ; Canada - Commerce - États-Unis - Sécurité - Mesures ; Canada ; North America - Canadian-American Border Region ; United States
    Abstract: "Historically, national borders have evolved in ways that serve the interests of central states in security and the regulation of trade. This book explores the Canada and US border and security policies that have evolved from successive trade agreements since the 1950s, punctuated by new and emerging challenges to security in the twenty-first century. The sectoral and geographical diversity of crossborder interdependence of what remains the world's largest bilateral trade relationship makes the US and Canada border a living laboratory for studying the interaction of trade, security, and other border policies that challenge traditional centralized approaches to national security. The book's findings show that border governance straddles multiple regional, sectoral, and security scales in ways rarely documented in such detail. These developments have precipitated an Open Border Paradox: extensive, regionally varied flows of trade and people have resulted in a series of nested but interdependent security regimes that function on different scales and vary across economic and policy sectors. These realities have given rise to regional and sectoral specialization in related security regimes. For instance, just-in-time automotive production in the Great Lakes region varies considerably from the governance of maritime and intermodal trade (and port systems) on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, which in turn is quite different from commodity-based systems that manage diverse agricultural and food trade in the Canadian Prairies and U.S. Great Plains"--
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472902865 , 9780472902866
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als McManus, Ian P Repoliticization of the welfare state
    Keywords: 2000-2099 ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Political aspects ; Welfare state History 21st century ; Recessions History 21st century ; Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009 - Aspect politique - Europe ; État providence - Pays de l'Union européenne - Histoire - 21e siècle ; Récessions - Europe - Histoire - 21e siècle ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Recessions ; Welfare state ; History ; Europe ; European Union countries
    Abstract: "The Repoliticization of the Welfare State grapples with the evolving nature of political conflict over social spending after the Great Recession. While the severity of the economic crisis encouraged strong social spending responses to protect millions of individuals, governments have faced growing pressure to reduce budgets and make deep cuts to the welfare state. Whereas conservative parties have embraced fiscal discipline and welfare state cuts, left-wing parties have turned away from austerity in favor of higher social spending. These political differences represent a return of traditional left-right beliefs over social spending and economic governance. This book is one of the first to systematically compare welfare state politics before and after the Great Recession, arguing that a new and lasting post-crisis dynamic has emerged where political parties once again matter for social spending. At the heart of this repoliticization are intense ideological debates over market regulation, social inequality, redistribution, and the role of the state. The book analyzes social spending dynamics for 28 countries before and after the crisis. It also includes in-depth country case studies representing five distinct welfare state types: Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, and the Czech Republic"
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-219) and index , The Realignment of Welfare State Politics , Crisis and the Politics of Social Spending , The European Union , Germany: Continental European Welfare State , United Kingdom: Liberal Welfare State , Sweden: Nordic Welfare State , Spain: Southern European Welfare State , -Czech Republic: Eastern European Welfare State , Conclusion.
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    ISBN: 9780472902606 , 0472902601 , 0472133160 , 9780472133161
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als (Post-)colonial archipelagos
    Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism ; HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Colonization ; Politics and government ; Spanish colonies ; Spain Colonies ; Spain Colonies ; Cuba Colonization ; Puerto Rico Colonization ; Philippines Colonization ; Cuba Politics and government ; Puerto Rico Politics and government ; Philippines Politics and government ; Espagne - Colonies - Amérique ; Espagne - Colonies ; Cuba - Colonisation ; Porto Rico - Colonisation ; Porto Rico - Politique et gouvernement ; Philippines - Politique et gouvernement ; America ; Asia ; Cuba ; Philippines ; Puerto Rico
    Abstract: "The Puerto Rican debt crisis, the challenges of social, political, and economic transition in Cuba, and the populist politics of Duterte in the Philippines-these topics are typically seen as disparate experiences of social reality. Though these island territories were colonized by the same two colonial powers-by the Spanish Empire and, after 1898, by the United States-research in the fields of history and the social sciences rarely draws links between these three contexts. Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines to examine the colonial legacies of the three island nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Instead of focusing on the legacies of US colonialism, the continuing legacies of Spanish colonialism are put center-stage. The analyses offered in the volume yield new and surprising insights into the study of colonial and postcolonial constellations that are of interest not only for experts, but also for readers interested in the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines during Spanish colonization and in the present. The empirical material profits from a rigorous and systematic analytical framework and is thus easily accessible for students, researchers, and the interested public alike"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. An Archipelagic View on (Post-)Colonial Legacies -- Part 2. The Past and Present of the Political Economy and Authority in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines -- Part 3. The Past and Present of the Hierarchization of Difference and Power in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines -- Part 4. The (Post-)Colonial Legacies of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines: A Comparative View.
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472902774 , 0472902776
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages) , illustrations
    Keywords: Economic assistance, Domestic ; Basic income ; Aide au développement économique régional - Amérique latine ; Revenu annuel garanti - Amérique latine ; Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy ; Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American ; Political Science ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Basic income ; Economic assistance, Domestic ; Economic policy ; Latin America Economic policy ; Amérique latine - Politique économique ; Latin America
    Abstract: "Latin America underwent two major transformations during the 2000s: the widespread election of left-leaning presidents (the so-called left turn) and the diffusion of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs)--innovative social programs that award regular stipends to poor families on the condition that their children attend school. Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus Basic Income: Ideology and Models of Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America challenges the conventional wisdom that these two transformations were unrelated. In this book, author Fabián A. Borges demonstrates that this ideology greatly influenced both the adoption and design of CCTs. There were two distinct models of CCTs: a "human capital" model based on means-tested targeting and strict enforcement of program conditions, exemplified by the program launched by Mexico's right, and a more universalistic "basic income" model with more permissive enforcement of conditionality, exemplified by Brazil's program under Lula. These two models then spread across the region. Whereas right and center governments, with assistance from international financial institutions, enacted CCTs based on the human capital model, the left, with assistance from Brazil, enacted CCTs based on the basic income model. The existence of two distinct types of CCTs and their relation to ideology is supported by quantitative analyses covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research in three countries. Left-wing governments operate CCTs that cover more people and spend more on those programs than their center or right-wing counterparts. Beyond coverage, a subsequent analysis of the 10 national programs adopted after Lula's embrace of CCTs confirms that program design--evaluated in terms of scope of the target population, strictness of conditionality enforcement, and stipend structure--is shaped by government ideology. This finding is then fleshed out through case studies of the political processes that culminated in the adoption of basic income CCTs by left-wing governments in Argentina and Bolivia and a human capital CCT by a centrist president in Costa Rica."
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-262) and index
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472902958 , 0472902954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages) , illustrations
    DDC: 791.43023092
    Keywords: Méliès, Georges ; Melies, Georges ; Méliès, Georges - 1861-1938 ; Motion picture producers and directors Biography ; Footwear History 19th century ; Material culture History 19th century ; Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma - France - Biographies ; Chaussures - France - Histoire - 19e siècle ; Culture matérielle - France - Paris - Histoire - 19e siècle ; Footwear ; Material culture ; Motion picture producers and directors ; Biographies ; History ; France ; France - Paris
    Abstract: Before he became the father of cinematic special effects, George Méliès (1861-1938) was a maker of deluxe French footwear, an illusionist, and a caricaturist. Proceeding from these beginnings, Méliès Boots traces how the full trajectory of Georges Méliès' career during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, along with the larger cultural and historical contexts in which Méliès operated, shaped his cinematic oeuvre. Solomon examines Méliès' unpublished drawings and published caricatures, the role of laughter in his magic theater productions, and the constituent elements of what Méliès called "the new profession of the cinéaste." The book also reveals Méliès' connections to the Incohérents, a group of ephemeral artists from the 1880s, demonstrating the group's relevance for Méliès, early cinema, and modernity. By positioning Méliès in relation to the material culture of his time, Solomon demonstrates that Méliès' work was expressive of a distinctly modern, and modernist, sensibility that appeared in France during the 1880s in the wake of the Second Industrial Revolution
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472902857 , 9780472902859
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Oktay, Sibel Governing abroad
    Keywords: Since 1945 ; Coalition governments ; Political parties ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Coalition governments ; Diplomatic relations ; Political parties ; Europe Foreign relations 1945- ; Europe - Relations extérieures - 1945- ; Europe
    Abstract: From Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In Western Europe, nearly 90 percent of postwar governments include two or more political parties. Israel, the Middle East's only consolidated democracy according to many, has never experienced single-party rule in its history. Even the United Kingdom, known for its long streak of single-party rule, now navigates multiparty cabinets. Coalitions are everywhere, but we still have little understanding of how they act in foreign affairs. History shows that coalitions can sometime engage in powerful international commitments such as participating in military operations, but at other times, they postpone their decisions, water down their policy positions, or promise to do less than they otherwise would. What explains these differences in behavior?Governing Abroad unpacks the little-known world of coalition governments to find out. Oktay argues that the specific constellation of parties in government explains why some coalitions can make more assertive foreign policy decisions than others. Building on the rich literatures in political science on coalitions, legislatures, and voting behavior, the book weaves together sophisticated statistical analyses of foreign policy events across thirty European countries alongside in-depth case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, and Finland. It brings political parties back into the study of foreign policy, demonstrating that the size of the coalition, the ideological proximity of the governing parties, and their relationship with the parliamentary opposition together influence the government's ability to act in the international arena. This book challenges our existing perceptions about the constraints and weaknesses of coalition governments. It sheds new light on the conditions that allow them to act decisively abroad
    Description / Table of Contents: Why Study Coalition Governments in Foreign Policy? -- The Constraints and Opportunities of Coalition Foreign Policy: Moving beyond the Dichotomy -- From Parties to Coalitions: Explaining Foreign Policy Commitments in Post Cold War Europe -- Reaching across the Aisle: Danish Commitments during the 1990 and 2003 Wars in Iraq -- When Foreign Policy Spills Over: Dutch Support for the 2003 Iraq War -- Loyal to Whom? Finland's Decision to Join the Eurozone -- Governing Together, Abroad: Conclusions and Implication.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-230) and index
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903610 , 0472903616
    Language: English , Chinese
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (376 pages)
    Series Statement: China Understandings Today
    DDC: 335.4345
    Keywords: Hu, Shi Criticism and interpretation ; Hu, Shi - 1891-1962 ; 1900-1999 ; Communism and international relations History 20th century ; Communism History 20th century ; Democracy History 20th century ; Communism ; Communism and international relations ; Democracy ; International relations ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; China Relations 20th century ; History ; China ; United States
    Abstract: Dr. Hu Shih (1891-1962) was one of China's top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China's ambassador to the United States during World War II. As early as 1941, Hu Shih warned of the fundamental ideological conflict between dictatorial totalitarianism and democratic systems, a view that later became the foundation of the Cold War narrative. In the 1950s, after Mao's authoritarian regime was established, Hu Shih started to analyze the development and nature of Communism, delivering a series of lectures and addresses to reveal what he called Stalin's "grand strategy" for facilitating the International Communist Movement. For decades--and today to a certain extent--Hu Shih's political writings were considered sensitive and even dangerous. As a strident critic of the Chinese Communist Party's oligarchical practices, he was targeted by the CCP in a concerted national campaign to smear his reputation, cast aspersions on his writings, and generally destroy any possible influence he might have in China. This volume brings together a collection of Hu Shih's most important, mostly unpublished, English-language speeches, interviews, and commentaries on international politics, China-U.S. relations, and the International Communist Movement. Taken together, these works provide an insider's perspective on Sino-American relations and the development of the International Communist Movement over the course of the 20th century
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    ISBN: 9780472902897 , 047290289X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ibrahimi, Yaqub International security in a world of fragile states
    Keywords: Qaida (Organization) ; IS (Organization) ; IS (Organization) ; Qaida (Organization) ; Terrorism ; Terrorism Religious aspects ; Islam ; Security, International ; Terrorisme - Aspect religieux - Islam ; Terrorisme - Pays musulmans ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Terrorism ; Terrorism - Religious aspects - Islam ; Islamic countries
    Abstract: Following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, DC, there has been an increasing interest among scholars, students, and the interested public to study and learn about the Islamist-oriented terrorist organizations called Jihadi Salafi Groups (JSGs). Considering that these organizations emerged in highly fragile states, S. Yaqub Ibrahimi asks: how and why is state fragility linked to the emergence of JSGs?Ibrahimi bases his study on three events: the establishment of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 1998, the rise of international security in the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, and the failed al-Qaeda effort to establish a base in Saudi Arabia in 2003. These case studies contain major aspects and features of the rise of JSGs and, together, explain the contribution of state fragility to the process of the formation and expansion of these terrorist organizations.International Security in a World of Fragile States stands out as a pivotal work on the interconnection between the root causes of JSGs and state fragility conditions and their amalgamated role in the formation and evolution of these organizations. It fills the gap by developing a comprehensive but readily understandable narrative of the rise of JSGs in Islamic countries, and examining them in an analytical framework in which their root causes are categorized on individual, group, and international levels
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-211) and index
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    ISBN: 9780472902620 , 0472902628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Landmark video games
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Church, David, 1982- Mortal kombat
    Keywords: Mortal Kombat (Game) ; Video games Social aspects ; Video games History ; Jeux vidéo - Aspect social - États-Unis ; Jeux vidéo - États-Unis - Histoire ; Mortal Kombat (Game) ; Video games ; Video games - Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; United States
    Abstract: Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent "fatality" moves performed by photorealistically rendered characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world's most iconic fighting games, and a transmedia franchise that continues to this day. This book traces Mortal Kombat's history as an American product inspired by both Japanese video games and Chinese martial-arts cinema, its successes and struggles in adapting to new market trends, and the ongoing influence of its secret-strewn narrative world. After outlining the specific elements of gameplay that differentiated Mortal Kombat from its competitors in the coin-op market, David Church examines the various martial-arts films that inspired its Orientalist imagery, helping explain its stereotypical uses of race and gender. He also posits the games as a cultural landmark from a moment when public policy attempted to intervene in both the remediation of cinematic aesthetics within interactive digital games and in the transition of public gaming spaces into the domestic sphere. Finally, the book explores how the franchise attempted to conquer other forms of media in the 1990s, lost ground to a new generation of 3D games in the 2000s, and has successfully rebooted itself in the 2010s to reclaim its legacy
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472902699 , 0472902695
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 314 pages) , illustrations
    Keywords: Digital media Political aspects ; Communication in politics Technological innovations ; Political campaigns Social aspects ; Médias numériques - Aspect politique ; Communication politique - Innovations ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Communication in politics - Technological innovations ; Digital media - Political aspects
    Abstract: Today, political leaders and candidates for office must campaign in a multi-media world not only through the traditional media forums - newspapers, radio, and television - but also through new digital media, particularly social media. Electoral Campaigns, Media, and the New World of Digital Politics chronicles how Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, email, and memes are used successfully and unsuccessfully to influence elections. Each of these platforms have different affordances and reach different audiences in different ways and campaigns often have to wage different campaigns on each of these mediums. In some instances, they are crucial in altering coverage in the mainstream media. In others, digital media remains under-utilized and undeveloped. As has always been the case in politics, outcomes that depend on economic and social conditions often dictate people's readiness for certain messages. However, the method and content of those messages has changed with great consequences for the health and future of democracy. This book answers several questions: How do candidates/parties reach audiences that are preoccupied, inattentive, amorphous and bombarded with so many other messages? How do they cope with the speed of media reporting in a continuous news cycle that demands instantaneous responses? How has media fragmentation altered the campaign styles and content of campaign communication, and general campaign discourse? Finally and most critically, what does this mean for how democracies function?
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472902712 , 0472902717
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 238 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Ethnic conflict: Studies in nationality, race, and culture
    Keywords: Internment camps ; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 Atrocities ; Genocide ; Camps d'internement - Bosnie-Herzégovine ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Atrocities ; Genocide ; Internment camps ; Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Abstract: Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse, and killing. Foreign journalists exposed the horrors of the camps in the summer of 1992, sparking worldwide outrage. This exposure, however, did not stop the mass atrocities. Hikmet Karčić shows that the use of camps and detention facilities has been a ubiquitous practice in countless wars and genocides in order to achieve the wartime objectives of perpetrators. Although camps have been used for different strategic purposes, their essential functions are always the same: to inflict torture and lasting trauma on the victims.Torture, Humiliate, Kill develops the author's collective traumatization theory, which contends that the concentration camps set up by the Bosnian Serb authorities had the primary purpose of inflicting collective trauma on the non-Serb population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This collective traumatization consisted of excessive use of torture, sexual abuse, humiliation, and killing. The physical and psychological suffering imposed by these methods were seen as a quick and efficient means to establish the Serb "living space." Karčić argues that this trauma was deliberately intended to deter non-Serbs from ever returning to their pre-war homes. The book centers on multiple examples of experiences at concentration camps in four towns operated by Bosnian Serbs during the war: Prijedor, Bijeljina, Višegrad, and Bileća. Chosen according to their political and geographical position, Karčić demonstrates that these camps were used as tools for the ethno-religious genocidal campaign against non-Serbs. Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index
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    ISBN: 9780472220458 , 0472220454 , 9780472903597 , 0472903594
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 pages) , illustrations, maps, charts
    Series Statement: China understandings today
    DDC: 333.730951
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Political socialization History 20th century ; Land reform History 20th century ; Moral education History ; Intergroup relations History 20th century ; Dominant-party systems Psychological aspects ; Socialisation politique - Chine - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Réforme agraire - Chine - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Éducation morale - Chine - Histoire ; Relations intergroupes - Chine - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Systèmes de parti dominant - Aspect psychologique ; Intergroup relations ; Land reform ; Moral education ; Political socialization ; History ; China
    Abstract: Righteous Revolutionaries illustrates how states appeal to popular morality--shared understandings of right and wrong--to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats to their authority. Jeffrey A. Javed examines the Chinese Communist Party's mass mobilization of violence during its land reform campaign in the early 1950s, one of the most violent and successful state-building efforts in history. Using an array of novel archival, documentary, and quantitative historical data, this book illustrates that China's land reform campaign was not just about economic redistribution but rather part of a larger, brutally violent state-building effort to delegitimize the new party-state's internal rivals and establish its moral authority. Righteous Revolutionaries argues that the Chinese Party-state simultaneously removed perceived threats to its authority at the grassroots and bolstered its legitimacy through a process called moral mobilization. This mobilization process created a moral boundary that designated a virtuous ingroup of "the masses" and a demonized outgroup of "class enemies," mobilized the masses to participate in violence against this broadly defined outgroup, and strengthened this symbolic boundary by making the masses complicit in state violence. Righteous Revolutionaries shows how we can find traces of moral mobilization in China today under Xi Jinping's rule. In an era where states and politicians regularly weaponize moral emotions to foment intergroup conflict and violence, understanding the dynamics of violent mobilization and state authority are more relevant than ever before
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-284) and index
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    ISBN: 9781643150482 , 1643150480
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages) , color illustrations, portraits
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Jazz History 20th century ; Music Societies, etc 20th century ; History ; Jazz musicians Homes and haunts ; African Americans Economic conditions 20th century ; History ; African Americans Social conditions 20th century ; History ; Musique - Massachusetts - Boston - Associations - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Musiciens de jazz - Résidences et lieux familiers - Massachusetts - Boston ; Noirs américains - Massachusetts - Boston - Conditions économiques - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Noirs américains - Massachusetts - Boston - Conditions sociales - Histoire - 20e siècle ; African Americans - Economic conditions ; African Americans - Social conditions ; Jazz ; Music - Societies, etc ; MUSIC / General ; History ; Massachusetts - Boston
    Abstract: South End Shout: Boston's Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age details the power of music in the city's African American community. The focus is from the era of ragtime in the 1900s to the rise of big band swing in the 1930s. The story of jazz is embedded in the larger social condition of Black Bostonians. It covers the activities of jazz musicians, jazz bands, the places they played, the relationships between Black and white musicians, the segregated branches of the musicians' union, and the economics of the South End music industry. The account is brought to life by the addition of 20 line drawings of musicians, theaters, hotels, dance halls, and devices used to listen to music. South End Shout is part of an emerging field of studies that examine jazz culture outside of the major centers of music production. As such, the account helps to better understand how jazz emerged as a national art form in the first quarter of the 20th century
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245)
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472902798 , 0472902792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 228 pages) , illustrations
    DDC: 304.840090512
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration International cooperation ; Refugees Government policy ; Refugees Government policy ; Emigration and immigration - Government policy ; Emigration and immigration - International cooperation ; Refugees - Government policy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; European Union countries Emigration and immigration ; Government policy ; Europe Emigration and immigration ; Government policy ; Europe ; European Union countries
    Abstract: Delegating Responsibility explores the politics of migration in the European Union and explains how and why the EU responded to the 2015-17 refugee crisis. Based on 86 interviews and fieldwork in Greece and Italy, Nicholas R. Micinski puts forward a new theory of international cooperation on international migration. States approach migration policies in many ways--such as coordination, collaboration, subcontracting, and unilateralism--but which way they choose is based on the migration state capacity and credible partners on the ground. Micinski traces the evolution of EU migration management, like border security and asylum policies, over the last fifty years and shows how EU officials used "crises" as political leverage to further Europeanize migration governance. In two in-depth cases studies, he explores these themes to explain how Italy and Greece responded to the most recent refugee crisis. He concludes with a discussion of policy recommendations regarding the current situation and long-term aspirations for migration management in the EU. This book is an excellent introduction to the politics of the EU, migration and refugee policy, and humanitarianism and presents original data and findings from the 2015-17 refugee crisis
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-228) and index
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472902491 , 0472902490
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 197 pages)
    DDC: 320.51
    Keywords: Liberalism History ; Violence History ; World politics History ; Liberalism ; Violence ; World politics ; History
    Abstract: Liberalism and Transformation is the first scholarly work that explores the historical, philosophical, and intellectual development of global liberalism since the nineteenth century in the context of the deployment of violence, force, and intervention. Using an approach that includes interpretive and contextual analysis of texts from writers, philosophers, and policy-makers across nearly two centuries, as well as historiographical and historical analysis of archival documents (some of which have been recently declassified) and other media, Liberalism and Transformation narrates the messy history of emancipatory liberalism and its engagement with issues of war and peace. The book contributes to both a rethinking of liberal democracy and its relationship to world politics, as well as the effects of liberal internationalism on global processes. Furthermore, Liberalism and Transformation invites readers to reflect on global ethics and transformation in world politics. In the first place, it shows how ethical imaginings of the world have direct effects on actions of transformative importance. In the second place, it suggests that discourses are fluid, changing, and complex
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-197)
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    ISBN: 9781943208272 , 1943208271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 336 pages) , illustrations
    Keywords: Genocide History 20th century ; Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937 ; Genocide ; International relations ; HISTORY / General ; History ; Haiti Relations ; Dominican Republic Relations ; Dominican Republic ; Haiti
    Abstract: Border of Lights, a volunteer collective, returns each October to Dominican-Haitian border towns to bear witness to the 1937 Haitian Massacre ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. This crime against humanity has never been acknowledged by the Dominican government and no memorial exists for its victims. A multimodal, multi-vocal space for activists, artists, scholars, and others connected to the BOL movement, The Border of Lights Reader provides an alternative to the dominant narrative that positions Dominicans and Haitians as eternal adversaries and ignores cross-border and collaborative histories. This innovative anthology asks large-scale, universal questions regarding historical memory and revisionism that countries around the world grapple with today
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    Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press
    ISBN: 9780943184210 , 0943184215
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 357 pages) , illustrations, portraits
    Keywords: Amherst College History ; Amherst College ; Education, Higher History ; Education, Higher ; EDUCATION / General ; History ; Massachusetts ; Amherst
    Abstract: In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Amherst College, a group of scholars and alumni explore the school's substantial past in this volume. Amherst in the World tells the story of how an institution that was founded to train Protestant ministers began educating new generations of industrialists, bankers, and political leaders with the decline in missionary ambitions after the Civil War. The contributors trace how what was a largely white school throughout the interwar years begins diversifying its student demographics after World War II and the War in Vietnam. The histories told here illuminate how Amherst has contended with slavery, wars, religion, coeducation, science, curriculum, town and gown relations, governance, and funding during its two centuries of existence. Through Amherst's engagement with educational improvement in light of these historical undulations, it continually affirms both the vitality and the utility of a liberal arts education
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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    Amherst, Massachusetts : Lever Press
    ISBN: 9781643150147 , 1643150146
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 281 pages) , illustrations (some color)
    DDC: 620.11
    Keywords: Materials History ; Social aspects ; Manufacturing processes History ; Social aspects ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 200 years. Whether given utility as building parts, fabrics, pharmaceuticals, or foodstuffs, whether seen by their proponents as human-made or "found in nature," materials result from the designation of some matter as both knowable and worth knowing about. In following these determinations we learn that the production of physical novelty under industrial, imperial and other cultural conditions has historically accomplished a huge range of social effects, from accruals of status and wealth to demarcations of bodies and geographies. Among other cases, New Materials traces the beneficent self-identity of Quaker asylum planners who devised soundless metal cell locks in the early 19th century, and the inculcation of national pride attending Taiwanese carbon-fiber bicycle parts in the 21st; the racialized labor organizations promoted by California orange breeders in the 1910s, and bureaucratized distributions of blame for deadly high-rise fires a century later. Across eras and global regions New Materials reflects circumstances not made clear when technological innovation is explained solely as a by-product of modernizing impulses or critiqued simply as a craving for profit. Whether establishing the efficacy of nano-scale pharmaceuticals or the tastiness of farmed catfish, proponents of new materials enact complex political ideologies. In highlighting their actors' conceptions of efficiency, certainty, safety, pleasure, pain, faith and identity, the authors reveal that to produce a "new material" is invariably to preserve other things, to sustain existing values and social structures
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472128075 , 0472128078 , 9780472902071 , 0472902075
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 242 pages)
    Series Statement: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies no. 20
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Genther, Phyllis A A History of Japan's Government-Business Relationship : The Passenger Car Industry
    Dissertation note: Thesis (doctoral)--George Washington University
    Keywords: Automobile industry and trade Government policy ; History ; Automobile industry and trade ; Government policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; Japan ; Hochschulschrift
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index
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    ISBN: 9780472127788 , 0472127780 , 9780472901746 , 0472901745
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 143 pages)
    Series Statement: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies no. 51
    Keywords: Governors History ; Governors Biography ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Governors ; Politics and government ; Biographies ; History ; China Politics and government 1644-1912 ; China
    Note: Bibliography: pages 135-143
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472128143 , 0472128140 , 9780472902149 , 0472902148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 285 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies no. 26
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; China History Xi'an Incident, 1936 ; China
    Note: Includes index , Bibliography: pages 255-271
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    ISBN: 9780472127993 , 0472127993 , 9780472901951 , 0472901958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 358 pages)
    Series Statement: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia no. 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hall, Kenneth R Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History : The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft
    Keywords: Politics and government ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; Southeast Asia Politics and government ; Southeast Asia History ; Southeast Asia
    Abstract: Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps and Charts -- The Authors -- Foreword -- Symbols Used in the Notes -- An introductory Essay on Southeast Asian Statecraft in the Classical Period -- Madagascar in the Ancient Malayo-Polynesian Myths -- State and Statecraft in Early Srivijaya -- Devarāja Cult and Khmer Kingship at Angkor -- The Rise of Đại Việt and the Establishment of Thang-Lŏng -- Note: The Vietnamese Confucian Scholar's View of His Country's Early History -- Kingship, the Saṅgha, and Society in Pagan
    Abstract: The Devolution of Kingship in Twelfth Century Ceylon -- Southeast Asian Trade and the Isthmian Struggle, 1000-1200 A.D. -- Appendix -- Southeast asia to 1300: A Course Outline and List of Suggested Readings
    Abstract: While following the probes of foreign individuals into various obscure parts of Southeast Asia over the centuries is a diverting and entertaining pastime, the purpose of this volume is to investigate this past with the mind, to question and postulate upon the historical patterns that have developed from earlier study of the area, and to bring concepts from other areas and disciplines to bear on the existing information. The product of this effort, as it is encompassed in this volume, is not an attempt at the definitive study of any of the topics. It is rather a series of speculations on the directions feasible for the further study of the Southeast Asian past. As such, the answers proposed in these essays are really questions. Are the ideas presented here true within the specific historical contexts for which they have been developed? If so, can we use these ideas, or variations of them, to interpret the history of other parts of Southeast Asia? If not, what other ideas may be brought to bear on these situations in order to understand them? The ultimate aim of this volume is thus a challenge to the profession at large not only to criticize what we have done, but also to go beyond our postulations and create new ones. [xi]
    Note: Bibliography: pages 343-358
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472127900 , 047212790X , 9780472901869 , 0472901869
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 95 pages)
    Series Statement: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies no. 14
    Keywords: Bibliography ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; China Bibliography ; Quzhou Xian (Hebei Sheng, China) History ; Bibliography ; China ; China ; Quzhou Xian (Hebei Sheng)
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472127573 , 0472127578 , 9780472901524 , 0472901524
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (83 pages) , map
    Series Statement: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies no. 12
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 ; China
    Abstract: Hu Tsung-hsien's campaign against Hsü Hai, 1556. -- Su-chou and the agents of Wei Chung-hsien, 1626.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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