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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108685382
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 220 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Uniform Title: Sacred and secular protest in the Chinese diaspora
    Parallel Title: Print version
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48/40951
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    Keywords: Chinesen ; Falun Gong ; Politischer Protest ; Politisches Engagement ; Falun Gong (Organization) ; Chinese / Political activity / Foreign countries ; Democratization / China ; Protest movements / China ; Social movements / China ; Transnationalism / Political aspects / China ; China / History / Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ; China / Politics and government / 1976-2002 ; China / Politics and government / 2002- ; Hochschulschrift ; Chinesen ; Falun Gong ; Politisches Engagement ; Politischer Protest
    Abstract: Becoming Activists in Global China is the first purely sociological study of the religious movement Falun Gong and its resistance to the Chinese state. The literature on Chinese protest has intensively studied the 1989 democracy movement while largely ignoring opposition by Falun Gong, even though the latter has been more enduring. This comparative study explains why the Falun Gong protest took off in diaspora and the democracy movement did not. Using multiple methods, Becoming Activists in Global China explains how Falun Gong's roots in proselytizing and its ethic of volunteerism provided the launch pad for its political mobilization. Simultaneously, diaspora democracy activists adopted practices that effectively discouraged grassroots participation. The study also shows how the policy goal of eliminating Falun Gong helped shape today's security-focused Chinese state. Explaining Falun Gong's two decades of protest illuminates a suppressed piece of Chinese contemporary history and advances our knowledge of how religious and political movements intersect
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108611091
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 291 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 346.04/32
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    Abstract: Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation responds to an unresolved question in legal scholarship: how are (or how might be) indigenous peoples' rights included in contemporary regulatory regimes for water. This book considers that question in the context of two key trajectories of comparative water law and policy. First, the tendency to 'commoditise' the natural environment and use private property rights and market mechanisms in water regulation. Second, the tendency of domestic and international courts and legislatures to devise new legal mechanisms for the management and governance of water resources, in particular 'legal person' models. This book adopts a comparative research method to explore opportunities for accommodating indigenous peoples' rights in contemporary water regulation, with country studies in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Chile and Colombia, providing much needed attention to the role of rights and regulation in determining indigenous access to, and involvement with, water in comparative law.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108763530
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 226 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 340/.114
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    Abstract: Everyday Justice clearly demonstrates the value of revitalizing the category of justice in ethnographic work by revealing how both justice and injustice are woven into everyday life in manifold and widely differing ways. The contributors account for this complexity across multiple particular social relations, places, and times, such that concepts and experiences of justice are made analytically visible without essentializing the construal of justice both as an idea and in practice. In the best scholarly tradition, Everyday Justice provides theoretical readings of justice and injustice, justice and law, and relational justice, each designed to cut through the specificity of myriad social, political, and legal conjunctures in a clarifying way. One outcome is to suggest future research possibilities to readers by highlighting theoretically distinctive yet ethnographically specific questions about justice. Everyday Justice will be essential reading for anyone interested in justice in theory and practice.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139105828
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: African studies series
    DDC: 320.96609
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-2010 ; Grenzgebiet ; State building ; Politik ; Westafrika
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108659284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 360 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies series
    DDC: 364.1532096875
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kolonisation ; Vergewaltigung ; Kolonialismus ; Gewalt ; Xhosa ; Frau ; Südafrika ; Provinz Ostkap
    Abstract: Elizabeth Thornberry uses historical evidence to shed light on South Africa's contemporary epidemic of sexual violence. Drawing on over a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts, Thornberry reconstructs the history of rape in South Africa's Eastern Cape, from the precolonial era to the triumph of legal and sexual segregation, and digs deep into questions of conceptions of sexual consent. Through this process, Thornberry also demonstrates the political stakes of disputes over sexual consent, and the ways in which debates over the regulation of sexuality shaped both white and black politics in this period. From customary authority to missionary Christianity and humanitarian liberalism to segregationism, political claims implied theories of sexual consent, and enabled distinctive claims to control female sexuality. The political history of rape illuminates not only South Africa's contemporary crisis of sexual violence, but the entangled histories of law, sexuality, and politics across the globe.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107587656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 496 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 966.9/00496333
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Yoruba (African people) / History ; Yoruba (African people) / Social life and customs ; Yoruba (African people) / Politics and government ; Yoruba ; Yoruba ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa, with significant populations in Nigeria, Benin and Togo, as well as a sizeable diasporic community around the world. By considering the art, religion, economics and political systems of the Yoruba, Aribidesi Usman and Toyin Falola chart the history of the Yoruba through the lens of the group's diverse and dynamic cultural and social practices. Using archaeological data, oral, and archival sources alongside rarely-discussed local histories Usman and Falola form a rich and detailed picture of the Yoruba from a period of early occupation and agriculture, the growth of complex societies and empires, the turbulent colonial period to the present day, constructing a comprehensive account of Yoruba history brought together in a single volume
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108289603
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 206 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 968.83/004961
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    Keywords: San (African people) ; Ethnology / Africa, Southern ; San ; Ethnologie ; Südafrika ; Südafrika ; San ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: The hunter-gatherers of southern Africa known as 'Bushmen' or 'San' are not one single ethnic group, but several. They speak a diverse variety of languages, and have many different settlement patterns, kinship systems and economic practices. The fact that we think of them as a unity is not as strange as it may seem, for they share a common origin: they are an original hunter-gatherer population of southern Africa with a history of many thousands of years on the subcontinent. Drawing on his four decades of field research in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, Alan Barnard provides a detailed account of Bushmen or San, covering ethnography, archaeology, folklore, religious studies and rock-art studies as well as several other fields. Its wide coverage includes social development and politics, both historically and in the present day, helping us to reconstruct both human prehistory and a better understanding of ourselves
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019)
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    ISBN: 9781108594875
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 218 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 909
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Civilization / History ; Ethnology / Africa ; Ethnology / China ; Tradition ; Zivilisation ; China ; Afrika ; Afrika ; China ; Zivilisation ; Tradition ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Civilisation is a debated concept and is often associated with the prerogatives of the 'West', colonial histories, and even emerging global politics. In this book, Stephen Feuchtwang and Michael Rowlands use the examples of Africa and China to provide a new conceptualisation that challenges traditional notions of 'civilisation'. They explain how to understand duration and continuity as long-term processes of transformation. Civilisations are best seen as practices of feeding and hospitality, of rituals and manners of living and dying, of entering the portals into the invisible world that surrounds and encompasses us, of healing and the knowledge of the encompassing universe and its powers, including its ghosts and demons. Civilisations furnish the moral ideals for people to live by and aspire to and they are changed more by the actions of disappointed grassroots and their little traditions than by their ruling authorities. Just as they revitalise and change their civilisations, this book revitalises and changes the way to think about civilisations in the humanities, the historical and the social sciences
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jul 2019)
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    ISBN: 9781108614856
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 986.106/35
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    Abstract: For decades a bitter civil war between the Colombia government and armed insurgent groups tore apart Colombian society. After protracted negotiations in Havana, a peace agreement was accepted by the Colombian government and the FARC rebel group in 2016. This volume will provide academics and practitioners throughout the world with critical analyses regarding what we know generally about the post-war peace building process and how this can be applied to the specifics of the Colombian case to assist in the design and implementation of post-war peace building programs and policies. This unique group of Colombian and international scholars comment on critical aspects of the peace process in Colombia, transitional justice mechanisms, the role of state and non-state actors at the national and local levels, and examine what the Colombian case reveals about traditional theories and approaches to peace and transitional justice.
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781108594875 , 9781108484343 , 9781108706186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vi, 218 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Feuchtwang, Stephan, 1937 - Civilisation recast
    DDC: 909
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    Keywords: Civilization History ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; Civilization ; History ; Ethnology ; Africa ; Ethnology ; China ; Afrika ; China ; Zivilisation ; Tradition ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Civilisation is a debated concept and is often associated with the prerogatives of the 'West', colonial histories, and even emerging global politics. In this book, Stephen Feuchtwang and Michael Rowlands use the examples of Africa and China to provide a new conceptualisation that challenges traditional notions of 'civilisation'. They explain how to understand duration and continuity as long-term processes of transformation. Civilisations are best seen as practices of feeding and hospitality, of rituals and manners of living and dying, of entering the portals into the invisible world that surrounds and encompasses us, of healing and the knowledge of the encompassing universe and its powers, including its ghosts and demons. Civilisations furnish the moral ideals for people to live by and aspire to and they are changed more by the actions of disappointed grassroots and their little traditions than by their ruling authorities. Just as they revitalise and change their civilisations, this book revitalises and changes the way to think about civilisations in the humanities, the historical and the social sciences.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108605571 , 9781108474566 , 9781108464987
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Adler, Gary J. Empathy beyond US borders
    DDC: 361.3/7
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    Keywords: BorderLinks (Program) ; Volunteer tourism ; Foreign study ; International travel Social aspects ; Americans Foreign countries ; Volunteer workers in social services ; BorderLinks (Program) ; Volunteer tourism ; Foreign study ; International travel ; Social aspects ; Americans ; Foreign countries ; Volunteer workers in social services ; USA ; Auslandsaufenthalt ; Auslandsarbeit ; Engagement
    Abstract: How do middle-class Americans become aware of distant social problems and act against them? US colleges, congregations, and seminaries increasingly promote immersion travel as a way to bridge global distance, produce empathy, and increase global awareness. But does it? Drawing from a mixed methods study of a progressive, religious immersion travel organization at the US-Mexico border, Empathy Beyond US Borders provides a broad sociological context for the rise of immersion travel as a form of transnational civic engagement. Gary J. Adler, Jr follows alongside immersion travelers as they meet undocumented immigrants, walk desert trails, and witness deportations. His close observations combine with interviews and surveys to evaluate the potential of this civic action, while developing theory about culture, empathy, and progressive religion in transnational civic life. This timely book describes the moralization of travel, the organizational challenges of transnational engagement, and the difficulty of feeling transformed but not knowing how to help.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108685382
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 220 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Junker, Andrew Becoming activists in global China
    DDC: 303.48/40951
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    Keywords: Falun Gong (Organization) ; Social movements ; Protest movements ; Democratization ; Transnationalism Political aspects ; Chinese Political activity ; Falun Gong (Organization) ; Social movements ; China ; Protest movements ; China ; Democratization ; China ; Transnationalism ; Political aspects ; China ; Chinese ; Political activity ; Foreign countries ; China ; Politics and government ; 1976-2002 ; China ; Politics and government ; 2002- ; China ; History ; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ; China Politics and government 1976-2002 ; China Politics and government 2002- ; China History Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Chinesen ; Falun Gong ; Politisches Engagement ; Politischer Protest
    Abstract: Becoming Activists in Global China is the first purely sociological study of the religious movement Falun Gong and its resistance to the Chinese state. The literature on Chinese protest has intensively studied the 1989 democracy movement while largely ignoring opposition by Falun Gong, even though the latter has been more enduring. This comparative study explains why the Falun Gong protest took off in diaspora and the democracy movement did not. Using multiple methods, Becoming Activists in Global China explains how Falun Gong's roots in proselytizing and its ethic of volunteerism provided the launch pad for its political mobilization. Simultaneously, diaspora democracy activists adopted practices that effectively discouraged grassroots participation. The study also shows how the policy goal of eliminating Falun Gong helped shape today's security-focused Chinese state. Explaining Falun Gong's two decades of protest illuminates a suppressed piece of Chinese contemporary history and advances our knowledge of how religious and political movements intersect.
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781108698368
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 304 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The civil sphere in East Asia
    DDC: 300.95
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    Keywords: Civil society ; Political participation ; Democracy ; Civil society ; East Asia ; Political participation ; East Asia ; Democracy ; East Asia ; East Asia ; Politics and government ; 21st century ; East Asia Politics and government 21st century
    Abstract: Leading sociologists who live and work in East Asia examine their region's most dangerous and explosive social problems, and some of their most stunning success stories, from the viewpoint of Civil Sphere Theory. This new and increasingly influential sociological understanding of democracy aims to describe and explain the moral codes and institutional foundations of democratic solidarity, as it manifests itself within a distinct social sphere. Part of a multi-volume project, this collection includes cases from Japan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, bringing together efforts by sociologists based in East Asian academic institutions. Through an extraordinary blend of sophisticated social theory and path-breaking empirical research, The Civil Sphere in East Asia aims to advance civil sphere theory by globalizing and regionalizing it at the same time.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108596312
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 193 pages)
    DDC: 303.6/23095475
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    Abstract: In times of extreme violence, what explains peace in some places? This book investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002, an event witnessed closely by the author. It compares peaceful and violent towns, villages, and neighbourhoods to study how political violence spreads. A combination of statistical and ethnographic methods unpack the mechanisms of crowd behaviour, intergroup relations, and political incentives. Macro-level risk factors that led to the violence are analysed to provide a close understanding of the behaviour of people who participated in the violence, were targeted by it and, often, compelled to carry on living alongside their perpetrators. Findings systematically demonstrate the implicit political logic of the violence. Most of all, by moving up close to the people caught in the middle of violence; findings highlight the interplay between politics, the spatial environment, and the cognitive decision-making processes of individuals.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108680981 , 9781108484510 , 9781108723275
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 170 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fabbrini, Sergio, 1949 - Europe's future
    DDC: 341.242/2
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    Keywords: European Union ; European federation ; European Union ; European federation ; European Union countries ; Politics and government ; 21st century ; European Union countries Politics and government 21st century ; Europäische Union ; Recht ; Reform
    Abstract: Sergio Fabbrini proposes a way out of the EU's crises, which have triggered an unprecedented cleavage between 'sovereignist' and 'Europeanist' forces. The intergovernmental governance of the multiple crises of the past decade has led to a division on the very rationale of Europe's integration project. Sovereignism (the expression of nationalistic and populist forces) has demanded more decision-making autonomy for the EU member states, although Europeanism has struggled to make an effective case against this challenge. Fabbrini proposes a new perspective to release the EU from this predicament, involving the decoupling and reforming of the EU: on the one hand, the economic community of the single market (consisting of the current member states of the EU and of others interested in joining or re-joining it); and on the other, the political union (largely based on the eurozone reformed according to an original model of the federal union).
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108630153 , 9781316517550 , 9781108448260
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 297 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Republicanism and the future of democracy
    DDC: 321.8/6
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    Keywords: Republicanism Philosophy ; Democracy Philosophy ; Republicanism ; Philosophy ; Democracy ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Democracies are in crisis. Can republican theory contribute to reforming our political norms and institutions? The 'neo-republican turn' has seen scholars using the classical republican tradition in reconstructing and developing a vision of public life as an alternative to liberalism. This volume offers new perspectives from leading scholars on how republicanism can help transform democratic theory and respond to some of its most pressing challenges. Drawing on this recent revival of republican political thought, its chapters reflect on such issues as the republican definition of freedom as nondomination and its relation to democracy and populism, the ideal of the common good, domination in the workplace and in the family, republicanism in a globalized world, and radical republican politics. It will appeal to researchers and students in political theory, political philosophy and the history of ideas, and anyone interested in gaining greater insight into the prospects and challenges of republican democracy in today's world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108642712 , 9781108472920
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 186 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Siddiqi, Ayesha In the wake of disaster
    DDC: 363.34/93095491
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    Keywords: Floods Social aspects ; Disaster relief ; Floods ; Social aspects ; Pakistan ; Disaster relief ; Pakistan ; Pakistan ; Politics and government ; 1988- ; Pakistan Politics and government 1988- ; Pakistan ; Überschwemmung ; Katastrophenhilfe ; Islam ; Fundamentalismus ; Geschichte 2010-2011 ; Pakistan ; Staat ; Bürger ; Beziehung
    Abstract: What is the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster? The book sets out to address this seemingly simple question, after large scale floods devastated Pakistan in 2010 and then again in 2011. Along the way it delves into rich detail about people's everday encounters with the state in Pakistan, uncovers postcolonial discourses on rights of citizenship and dispels mainstream understanding of Islamist groups as presenting an alternative development paradigm to the state. Based on detailed ethnographic fieldwork, In the Wake of the Disaster forces the reader to look beyond narratives of Pakistan as the perennial 'failing state' falling victim to an imminent 'Islamist takeover'. The book shifts the conversation from hysteria and sensationalism surrounding Pakistan to the everyday. In doing so it transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108558648
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (75 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements. Politics and society in Southeast Asia,
    DDC: 306.209596
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    Keywords: Autoritärer Staat ; Kambodscha
    Abstract: Drawing data from multiple sources, Un argues that following the 1993 United Nations intervention to promote democracy, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) perpetuated a patronage state weak in administrative capacity but strong in coercive capacity. This enabled them to maintain the presence of electoral authoritarianism, but increased political awareness among the public, the rise in political activism among community-based organizations and a united opposition led to the emergence of a counter-movement. Sensing that this counter-movement might be unstoppable, the CPP has returned Cambodia to authoritarianism, a move made possible in part by China's pivot to Cambodia.
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    ISBN: 9781108646994
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (116 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements
    Series Statement: Elements in religion and violence
    Parallel Title: Print version
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Heng, Geraldine, 1953 - England and the Jews
    DDC: 296.380942
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    Keywords: Jews History ; Jews ; England ; History ; England ; Ethnic relations ; England Ethnic relations ; England Ethnic relations ; History ; England ; Juden ; Geschichte
    Abstract: For three centuries, a mixture of religion, violence, and economic conditions created a fertile matrix in Western Europe that racialized an entire diasporic population who lived in the urban centers of the Latin West: Jews. This Element explores how religion and violence, visited on Jewish bodies and Jewish lives, coalesced to create the first racial state in the history of the West. It is an example of how the methods and conceptual frames of postcolonial and race studies, when applied to the study of religion, can be productive of scholarship that rewrites the foundational history of the past
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108645157
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 365 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jardina, Ashley White identity politics
    DDC: 320.56/909073
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    Keywords: Whites Race identity ; Identity politics ; Whites Politics and government ; Identity politics ; United States. ; Whites ; United States ; Politics and government. ; Whites ; Race identity ; United States. ; United States ; Race relations ; Political aspects. ; Identity politics ; United States ; Whites ; United States ; Politics and government ; Whites ; Race identity ; United States ; United States ; Race relations ; Political aspects ; United States Race relations ; Political aspects ; USA ; Weißsein ; Identitätspolitik ; Ethnische Beziehungen
    Abstract: Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be invisible because of whites' dominant position and ability to claim the mainstream, but today a large portion of whites actively identify with their racial group and support policies and candidates that they view as protecting whites' power and status. In White Identity Politics, Ashley Jardina offers a landmark analysis of emerging patterns of white identity and collective political behavior, drawing on sweeping data. Where past research on whites' racial attitudes emphasized out-group hostility, Jardina brings into focus the significance of in-group identity and favoritism. White Identity Politics shows that disaffected whites are not just found among the working class; they make up a broad proportion of the American public - with profound implications for political behavior and the future of racial conflict in America
    Abstract: The new American minority -- Making the invisible visible -- The measurement & meaning of group ties -- Who identifies as white? -- The content and contours of whiteness -- The preservation of whiteness -- Policies that protect the group -- A Black man in the White House -- The future of white America
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108368162 , 9781108421669 , 9781108431958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 385 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Accetti, Carlo Invernizzi, 1983 - What is Christian democracy?
    DDC: 324.245/0822
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    Keywords: Christian democracy ; Democracy Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Christianity and politics ; Christian democracy ; Democracy ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Christianity and politics ; Christliche Demokratie ; Christliche Politik
    Abstract: Christian Democratic actors and thinkers have been at the forefront of many of the twentieth century's key political battles - from the construction of the international human rights regime, through the process of European integration and the creation of postwar welfare regimes, to Latin American development policies during the Cold War. Yet their core ideas remain largely unknown, especially in the English-speaking world. Combining conceptual and historical approaches, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the development of this ideology in the thought and writings of some of its key intellectual and political exponents, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing he sheds light on a number of important contemporary issues, from the question of the appropriate place of religion in presumptively 'secular' liberal-democratic regimes, to the normative resources available for building a political response to the recent rise of far-right populism.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108551755
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 275 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Anria, Santiago, 1982 - When movements become parties
    DDC: 324.284/074
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    Keywords: Morales Ayma, Evo ; Movimiento al Socialismo (Bolivia) ; Social movements Political aspects ; Partei ; Sozialistische Partei ; Gründung ; Innerparteiliche Willensbildung ; Einrichtung ; Organisationsstruktur ; Organisationsgrad ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Gruppe ; Morales Ayma, Evo ; 1959- ; Movimiento al Socialismo (Bolivia) ; Social movements ; Political aspects ; Bolivia ; Bolivia ; Politics and government ; 1982-2006 ; Bolivia ; Politics and government ; 2006- ; Bolivia Politics and government 1982-2006 ; Bolivia Politics and government 2006- ; Bolivien ; Movimiento al Socialismo ; Entstehung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Organisation ; Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro ; Frente Amplio
    Abstract: Why do some parties formed by social movements develop top-down structures while others stay more open and responsive to their social bases? The first rigorous comparative study of movement-based parties, this book shows not only how movements can form parties but also how movements contribute to parties' internal politics and shape organizational party models over the long term. Although the existing literature argues that movement-based parties will succumb to professionalization and specialization, Anria shows that this is not inevitable or preordained through an in-depth examination of the unusual and counterintuitive development of Bolivia's MAS. Anria then compares the evolution of the MAS with that of other parties formed by social movements, including Brazil's PT and Uruguay's FA. In a region where successful new parties of any type have been rare, these three parties are remarkable for their success. Yet, despite their similar origins, they differ sharply in their organizational models
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    ISBN: 9781108559638
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 226 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bersch, Katherine When democracies deliver
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    Keywords: Transparency in government ; Government accountability ; Government accountability ; Health care reform ; Health care reform ; Transportation and state ; Transportation and state ; Transparency in government ; Public administration ; Public administration ; Verwaltung ; Governance ; Reform ; Verwaltungsreform ; Transparenz ; Politischer Prozess ; Public administration ; Brazil ; Public administration ; Argentina ; Transparency in government ; Brazil ; Transparency in government ; Argentina ; Government accountability ; Brazil ; Government accountability ; Argentina ; Health care reform ; Brazil ; Health care reform ; Argentina ; Transportation and state ; Brazil ; Transportation and state ; Argentina ; Lateinamerika ; Argentinien ; Brasilien
    Abstract: Why do governance reforms in developing democracies so often fail, and when might they succeed? When Democracies Deliver offers a dynamic framework for assessing the effectiveness and durability of policy change. Drawing on detailed analyses of public sector reforms in Brazil and Argentina, this book challenges conventional wisdom to reveal that incremental changes sequenced over time prove more effective in promoting accountability, increasing transparency, and strengthening institutions than comprehensive overhauls pushed through by political will. Developing an innovative theory that integrates cognitive-psychological insights about decision making with research on institutional change, Katherine Bersch shows how political and organizational factors can shape reform strategies and information processing. Through extensive interviews and field research, Bersch traces how two competing strategies have determined the different trajectories of institutions responsible for government contracting in health care and transportation. When Democracies Deliver offers a fresh insight on the perils of powering and the benefits of gradual reform
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Varied Advances in Quality of Governance; 2. The Merits of Problem Solving over Powering; 3. An Explanation of Reform Type; 4. Transportation in Argentina: Powering (Re-)Creates Crisis; 5. Transportation in Brazil: Powering Curtailed, Problem Solving Inches Forward; 6. Health in Argentina: Impeded Powering Fosters Problem Solving; 7. Health in Brazil: Problem-Solving Success; 8. Theoretical Conclusions and Comparative Perspectives
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108265164 , 9781108417259 , 9781108404747
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ben-Porat, Gay, 1967 - Policing citizens
    DDC: 363.2/3095694
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    Keywords: Police ; Police-community relations ; Discrimination in law enforcement ; Minorities ; Police ; Israel ; Police-community relations ; Israel ; Discrimination in law enforcement ; Israel ; Minorities ; Israel ; Israel ; Ethnic relations ; Israel ; Race relations ; Israel Ethnic relations ; Israel Race relations ; Israel ; Polizei ; Nationale Minderheit ; Diskriminierung
    Abstract: What does police violence against minorities, or violent clashes between minorities and the police tell us about citizenship and its internal hierarchies? Indicative of deep-seated tensions and negative perceptions; incidents such as these suggest how minorities are vulnerable, suffer from or are subject to police abuse and neglect in Israel. Marked by skin colour, negatively stigmatized or rendered security threats, their encounters with police provide a daily reminder of their defunct citizenship. Taking as case studies the experiences and perceptions of four minority groups within Israel including Palestinian/Arab citizens, ultra-Orthodox Jews and Ethiopian and Russian immigrants, Ben-Porat and Yuval are able to explore different paths of citizenship and the stratification of the citizenship regime through relations with and perceptions of the police in Israel. Touching on issues such as racial profiling, police brutality and neighbourhood neglect, their study questions the notions of citizenship and belonging, shedding light on minority relationships with the state and its institutions.
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    ISBN: 9781107278899 , 9781107049314 , 9781107627406
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 463 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Harrison, Hope M., 1963 - After the Berlin Wall
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    Keywords: Collective memory ; Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 Historiography ; National characteristics, German ; Collective memory ; Germany ; Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 ; Historiography ; National characteristics, German ; Germany ; History ; Unification, 1990 ; Historiography ; Germany ; Politics and government ; 1990- ; Germany History Unification, 1990 ; Historiography ; Germany Politics and government 1990- ; Deutschland ; Berliner Mauer ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Geschichte 1989-2019
    Abstract: The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sources and interviews, this book profiles key memory activists who have fought to commemorate the history of the Berlin Wall and examines their role in the creation of a new German national narrative. With victims, perpetrators and heroes, the Berlin Wall has joined the Holocaust as an essential part of German collective memory. Key Wall anniversaries have become signposts marking German views of the past, its relevance to the present, and the complicated project of defining German national identity. Considering multiple German approaches to remembering the Wall via memorials, trials, public ceremonies, films, and music, this revelatory work also traces how global memory of the Wall has impacted German memory policy. It depicts the power and fragility of state-backed memory projects, and the potential of such projects to reconcile or divide.
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    ISBN: 9781108529426
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 289 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften ; Kulturanthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Theorie ; Moderne
    Abstract: Presenting a ground-breaking revitalization of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and sociology. Using concepts developed by a series of 'maverick' anthropologists who were systematically marginalised as their ideas fell outside the standard academic canon, such as Arnold van Gennep, Marcel Mauss, Paul Radin, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and Gregory Bateson, the authors argue that such concepts are necessary for understanding better the rise and dynamics of the modern world, including the development of the social sciences, in particular sociology and anthropology. Concepts discussed include liminality, imitation, schismogenesis and trickster, which provide an anthropological 'toolkit' for readers to develop innovative understandings of the underlying power mechanisms of globalized modernity. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, the book is clearly structured. Part I introduces the 'maverick' anthropologists, while Part II applies the maverick tool-kit to revisit the history of sociological thought and the question of modernity.
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    ISBN: 9780511812507
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    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 16
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology
    Uniform Title: Esquisse pour une auto-analyse
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    Keywords: Bourdieu, Pierre ; Kabyles ; Ethnology ; Sozialanthropologie ; Kabylen ; Theorie ; Ethnologie ; Ethnosoziologie ; Soziologie ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Anthropologie ; Sozialstruktur ; Selbstverständnis ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kabylen ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Sozialanthropologie ; Ethnosoziologie ; Kabylen ; Sozialstruktur ; Bourdieu, Pierre 1930-2002 ; Selbstverständnis ; Kabylen ; Ethnologie ; Ethnologie ; Theorie ; Anthropologie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power
    Description / Table of Contents: The objective limits of objectivism -- Structures and the habitus -- Generative schemes and practical logic : invention within limits -- Structures, habitus, power: basis for a theory of symbolic power
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    ISBN: 9781108609166 , 1108609163
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Keywords: Nationalbewusstsein ; Minderheitenfrage ; Gilgit-Baltistan ; Gilgit District (Pakistan) / Politics and government ; Baltistān District (Pakistan) / Politics and government ; Gilgit-Baltistan ; Minderheitenfrage ; Nationalbewusstsein
    Abstract: Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier is the first in-depth study of state power and social struggle in Gilgit-Baltistan - the only Shia-majority region of Sunni-dominated Pakistan and a contested border zone that forms part of disputed Kashmir. For seven decades, the political conflict over Kashmir has locked India and Pakistan in brutal wars and hate-centered nationalisms. This book illuminates how within this story of hate lie other stories - of love and betrayal, loyalty and suspicion, and beauty and terror. Placing these emotionalities at the centre of its analysis, Delusional States rethinks the state-citizen relation in deeply felt and intimate terms, offering a fine-grained ethnographic analysis of power and subjection in contemporary Pakistan. A powerful contribution to studies of state-making and Muslim sociality in South Asia, the book additionally offers distinct theoretical insights in the fields of social movements, political ecology, education, and global development studies
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    ISBN: 9781108377683
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 294 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Appearance bias and crime
    DDC: 364.2/4
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    Keywords: Criminal anthropology ; Physical-appearance based bias ; Criminal behavior, Prediction of ; Discrimination in criminal justice administration ; Criminal anthropology. ; Physical-appearance based bias. ; Criminal behavior, Prediction of. ; Discrimination in criminal justice administration. ; Criminal anthropology ; Physical-appearance based bias ; Criminal behavior, Prediction of ; Discrimination in criminal justice administration ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Visuelle Wahrnehmung ; Aussehen ; Kriminalprognose ; Profilmethode ; Diskriminierung ; Kriminalanthropologie
    Abstract: Relying on experts in criminology and sociology, Appearance Bias and Crime describes the role of bias against citizens based on their physical appearance. From the point of suspicion to the decisions to arrest, convict, sentence, and apply the death penalty, crime control agents are influenced by the appearance of offenders; moreover, victims of crime are held blameworthy depending on their physical appearance. The editor and contributing authors discuss timely topics such as Black Lives Matter, terrorism, LGBTQ appearance, human trafficking, Indigenous appearance, the disabled, and the attractive versus unattractive among us. Demographic traits such as race, gender, age, and social class influence physical appearance and, thus, judgments about criminal involvement and victimization. This volume describes the social movements relevant to appearance bias, recommends legislative and policy changes, offers practical advice to social control agencies on how to reduce appearance bias, and proposes a new sub-discipline of appearance criminology.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108568913
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (65 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements. Elements in the politics of development, 2515-1606
    DDC: 323.6
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    Abstract: Understood simply, people are either citizens of a country or stateless. Yet reality belies this dichotomy. Between absolute statelessness and full citizenship exist millions of people who are nationals of a country in principle but lack the identity documents to prove it, beginning with a birth certificate. Languishing in a gray zone, undocumented nationals have difficulty accessing the full services and rights that their documented counterparts enjoy. Drawing on a range of country examples, Undocumented Nationals: Between Statelessness and Citizenship calls attention to and analyzes the plight of people who cannot exercise full citizenship owing to evidentiary deficiencies. The existing literature has not adequately conceptualized and examined this in-between status, which results sometimes from state neglect and other times from intentional state discrimination. By highlighting its causes and consequences, and exploring ways to address the problem, this Cambridge Element addresses an important gap in the literature.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108354905 , 9781108420624 , 9781108430692
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Das, Shinjini, 1982 - Vernacular medicine in colonial India
    DDC: 615.5/32
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    Keywords: Homeopathy History 19th century ; Homeopathy ; India ; History ; 19th century ; Britisch-Indien ; Volksmedizin ; Homöopathie ; Gesundheitspolitik
    Abstract: Conceptualised in opposition to 'orthodox' medicine, homoeopathy, a western medical project originating in eighteenth-century Germany, was reconstituted as vernacular medicine in British Bengal. India went on to become the home of the largest population of users of homoeopathic medicine in the world. Combining insights from the history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of family in British India, Shinjini Das examines the processes through which western homoeopathy was translated and indigenised in the colony as a specific Hindu worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining regimen. In tracing the localisation of German homoeopathy in a British Indian province, this book analyses interactions between Calcutta-based homoeopathic family firms, disparate contributors to the Bengali print market, the British colonial state and emergent nationalist governments. The history of homoeopathy in Bengal reveals myriad negotiations undertaken by the colonised peoples to reshape scientific modernity in the subcontinent.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108683425
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 238 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Weldemichael, Awet Tewelde, 1976 - Piracy in Somalia
    DDC: 364.164096773
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    Keywords: Fishing Corrupt practices ; Fishery management ; Piracy ; Piracy ; Somalia ; Fishery management ; Somalia ; Fishing ; Corrupt practices ; Somalia ; Somalia ; Seeräuberei
    Abstract: Piracy in Somalia sheds light on an often misunderstood world, oversimplified and demonized in the media and largely decontextualized in scholarly and policy works. It examines the root causes of piracy in Somalia, its impact on coastal communities, local views about it, and the measures taken against it. Drawing on six years' worth of extensive fieldwork, Awet Tewelde Weldemichael amplifies the voices of local communities who have suffered under the heavy weight of illegal fishing, piracy and counter-piracy and makes their struggles comprehensible on their own terms. He also exposes complex webs of crimes within crimes of double-dealing pirates, fraudulent negotiators, duplicitous intermediaries, and treacherous foreign illegal fishers and their local partners. In so doing, this book will help inform regional and global counter-piracy endeavors, avoid possible reversals in the gains so far made against piracy, and identify the gains that need to be made against its root causes
    Abstract: Locating Somali piracy in space and discourse -- Global root causes and local circumstances of early piracy in Somalia -- From cascading troubles of Somali fisheries to the onset of predatory piracy -- The epic spiraling of ransom piracy -- Local consequences of and responses to piracy -- International counter-piracy as a means and an end -- Conclusion: IUU fishing is back! When will piracy?
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    ISBN: 9781108590853
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 343 Seiten)
    Series Statement: African identities: past and present
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    DDC: 967.800496392
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    Keywords: Swahili-speaking peoples ; Tanzania ; Bagamoyo ; Swahili-speaking peoples ; Ethnic identity ; Bagamoyo (Tanzania) ; Social conditions ; Bagamoyo (Tanzania) ; History ; Bagamoyo (Tanzania) ; Ethnic relations
    Abstract: Situated at a crossroads of trade in the late nineteenth century, and later the economic capital of German East Africa, the thriving caravan and port town of Bagamoyo, Tanzania is one of many diverse communities on the East African coast which has been characterized as 'Swahili'. Seeking an alternate framework for understanding community and identity, Steven Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'Swahili' as it has been traditionally understood. Revealing how townspeople - Africans, Arabs, Indians, and Europeans alike - created a local vocabulary which referenced aspects of everyday town life and bound them together as members of a shared community, this first extensive examination of Bagamoyo's history from the pre-colonial era to independence uses a new lens of historical analysis to emphasize the importance of place in creating local, urban identities and suggests a broader understanding of these concepts historically along the Swahili Coast
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    ISBN: 9781316691489
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 270 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Science / Social aspects ; Technology / Social aspects ; Genetic engineering / Social aspects ; Innovation ; Technologie ; Gentechnologie ; Gesellschaft ; Wissenschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wissenschaft ; Technologie ; Innovation ; Gesellschaft ; Gentechnologie ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: This book gathers inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the effects that today's advances in science and technology have on issues ranging from government policy-making to how we see the differences between men and women. The chapters investigate how invention and innovation really take place, how science differs from competing forms of knowledge, and how science and technology could contribute more to the greater good of humanity. For instance, should there be legal restrictions on 'immoral inventions'? A key theme that runs throughout the book concerns who is taken into account at each stage and who is affected. The amount of influence users have on technology development and how non-users are factored in are evaluated as the impact of scientific and technological progression on society is investigated, including politics, economy, family life, and ethics
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    ISBN: 9781108692793
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 216 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als When democracy trumps populism
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    Keywords: Trump, Donald Political and social views ; Populism History ; Populism History ; Populism ; Democracy ; Trump, Donald ; 1946- ; Political and social views ; Populism ; United States ; Democracy ; United States ; Populism ; Europe ; History ; Populism ; Latin America ; History ; United States ; Politics and government ; 2017- ; Europe ; Politics and government ; 1989- ; Latin America ; Politics and government ; 1980- ; United States Politics and government 2017- ; Europe Politics and government 1989- ; Latin America Politics and government 1980- ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Demokratie ; Populismus ; Europa ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Because no populist leader had occupied the White House in 150 years, there were many questions about what to expect. Marshaling the long-standing expertise of leading specialists of populism elsewhere in the world, this book provides the first systematic, comparative analysis of the prospects for US democracy under Trump, considering the two regions - Europe and Latin America - that have had the most ample recent experiences with populist chief executives. Chapters analyze the conditions under which populism slides into illiberal or authoritarian rule and in so doing derive well-grounded insights and scenarios for the US case, as well as a more general cross-national framework. The book makes an original argument about the likely resilience of US democracy and its institutions
    Abstract: Donald Trump's populism: what are the prospects for U.S. democracy? / by Kurt Weyland and Raúl L. Madrid -- Dealing with populism in Latin America: lessons for Donald Trump's populist presidency in the United States / by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser -- Donald Trump and the lessons of East-Central European populism / by Kevin Deegan-Krause -- Has populism eroded the quality of European democracy? Insights from Italy and the Netherlands / by Bertjan Verbeek and Andrej Zaslove -- Trump's populism: the mobilization of nationalist cleavages and the future of U.S. democracy / by Bart Bonikowski -- Parties, populism, and democratic decay: a comparative perspective on political polarization in the United States / by Kenneth M. Roberts -- Why U.S. democracy will survive Trump / by Raúl L. Madrid and Kurt Weyland
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    ISBN: 9781108608312
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    Pages: 1 online resource (77 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements. Politics and society in Southeast Asia
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Vasavakul, Thaveeporn Vietnam
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    Keywords: Socialism ; Socialism ; Vietnam ; Vietnam ; Politics and government ; 1975- ; Vietnam Politics and government 1975- ; Vietnam ; Politik ; Politischer Wandel ; Geschichte 1975-
    Abstract: This is a study of Vietnam's socialist transition and state transformation, generally known as đổi mới. It examines the drivers of socialist-regime change, the nature of the đổi mới state, and the basis of regime legitimacy in Vietnam. The Element argues that despite its 'one-party rule' label, the party-state apparatus that channels said rule has become fragmented. State-building during the đổi mới period involved negotiations and bargaining that redefine authority and power relations within the state apparatus. The party-state's accountability projects are designed to target the specific self-aggrandizing tendencies of the state apparatus, its policies, and abuse of state power. At the leadership level, patterns of resource allocation underlying the đổi mới growth model as well as the VCP's cadre rotation approach have accommodated central and sub-national state elites across sectors and levels, helping shore up the legitimacy of the đổi mới state in the eyes of the state elite. The combination of sustained economic growth, expansion of political space, accountability, and tolerance of small-scale public protests have been factors in strengthening regime-society legitimization.
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    ISBN: 9781108164832
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 256 pages)
    Series Statement: Advances in personal relationships
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    Abstract: Intimate relationships exist in social domains, in which there are cultural rules regarding appropriate behaviors. But they also inhabit psychological domains of thoughts, feelings, and desires. How are intimate relationships experienced by people living in various types of romantic or sexual relationships and in various cultural regions around the world? In what ways are they similar, and in what ways are they different? This book presents a cross-cultural extension of the findings originating from the classic Boston Couples Study. Amassing a wealth of new data from almost 9,000 participants worldwide, Hill explores the factors that predict having a current partner, relationship satisfaction, and relationship commitment. These predictions are compared across eight relationship types and nine cultural regions, then uniquely combined in a Comprehensive Partner Model and a Comprehensive Commitment Model. The findings test the generalizability of previous theories about intimate relationships, with implications for self-reflection, couples counseling, and well-being.
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    ISBN: 9781108613392 , 9781108706230
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    Pages: 1 online resource (78 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements. Elements in religion and violence, 2397-9496
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Haar, Barend J. ter, 1958 - Religious culture and violence in traditional China
    DDC: 201/.763320954
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    Keywords: Violence Religious aspects ; Violence ; Violence ; Religious aspects ; Violence ; China ; China ; Religion ; Gewalt ; Religionskrieg
    Abstract: The basis of Chinese religious culture, and with that many aspects of daily life, was the threat and fear of demonic attacks. These were inherently violent and could only be counteracted by violence as well - even if this reactive violence was masked by euphemisms such as execution, expulsion, exorcisms and so on. At the same time, violence was a crucial dimension of the maintenance of norms and values, for instance in sworn agreements or in beliefs about underworld punishment. Violence was also an essential aspect of expressing respect through sacrificial gifts of meat (and in an earlier stage of Chinese culture also human flesh) and through a culture of auto-mutilation and ritual suicide. At the same time, conventional indigenous terms for violence such as bao 暴 were not used for most of these practices since they were not experienced as such, but rather justified as positive uses of physical force.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 296 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Political culture / Turkey ; Democracy / Turkey ; Authoritarianism / Turkey ; Islam and politics / Turkey ; Autoritarismus ; Demokratie ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Politisches System ; Turkey / Politics and government / 1980- ; Türkei ; Türkei ; Politisches System ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Demokratie ; Autoritarismus
    Abstract: Since the 1980 military coup in Turkey, much of the history and politics of the country can be described as a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. In this accessible account of the country's politics, society and economics, the authors delve into the causes and processes of what has been called a democratic 'backsliding'. In order to explore this, Yeşim Arat and Şevket Pamuk, two of Turkey's leading social scientists, focus on the mutual distrust between the secular and Islamist groups. They argue that the attempts by a secular coalition to circumscribe the Islamists in power had a boomerang effect. The Islamists struck back first in self-defence, then in pursuit of authoritarian power. With chapters on urbanization, Kurdish nationalism, women's movements, economic development and foreign relations, this book offers a comprehensive and lively examination of contemporary Turkey and its role on the global stage
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Aug 2019) , Introduction -- A long wave of urbanization -- From military rule to civilian politics -- Islamists in power -- Uneven economic development and domestic politics -- The Kurdish revolt : nationalism and ethnicity -- Between Europe and the Middle East -- Women's call for democracy -- Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781108753371 , 9781108477147 , 9781108701952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 391 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Strathern, Alan, 1975 - Unearthly powers
    DDC: 201/.7209
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    Keywords: Religion and politics History ; Religion History ; Religions ; Religion and politics ; History ; Religion ; History ; Religions ; Religion ; Politischer Wandel ; Geschichte ; Religion ; Politischer Wandel ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Why was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religious traditions, especially Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism? Drawing on sociology and anthropology, as well as a huge range of historical literature from all regions and periods of world history, Alan Strathern sets out a new way of thinking about transformations in the fundamental nature of religion and its interaction with political authority. His analysis distinguishes between two quite different forms of religiosity - immanentism, which focused on worldly assistance, and transcendentalism, which centred on salvation from the human condition - and shows how their interaction shaped the course of history. Taking examples drawn from Ancient Rome to the Incas or nineteenth-century Tahiti, a host of phenomena, including sacred kingship, millenarianism, state-church struggles, reformations, iconoclasm, and, above all, conversion are revealed in a new light.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 286 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Breman, Jan, 1936 - Capitalism, inequality and labour in India
    DDC: 331.11/730954
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    Keywords: 1962-2017 ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Kapitalismus ; Zwangsarbeit ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Indien ; Peonage History ; Labor policy History ; Working poor History ; Capitalism History ; Peonage ; India ; History ; Labor policy ; India ; History ; Working poor ; India ; History ; Capitalism ; India ; History
    Abstract: Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India's agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature.
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    ISBN: 9781108559492
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 225 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zeira, Yael The revolution within
    DDC: 956.9405/5
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    Keywords: Palestinian Arabs Politics and government 20th century ; Palestinian Arabs Politics and government 21st century ; Government, Resistance to ; Political participation ; Civil society ; Palestinian Arabs ; Politics and government ; 20th century ; Palestinian Arabs ; Politics and government ; 21st century ; Government, Resistance to ; Palestine ; Political participation ; Palestine ; Civil society ; Palestine ; Palästina ; Araber ; Bürgerliche Gesellschaft ; Politisches Engagement ; Widerstandsrecht ; Nahostkonflikt
    Abstract: Why do some individuals participate in risky, anti-regime resistance whereas others abstain? The Revolution Within answers this question through an in-depth study of unarmed resistance against Israeli rule in the Palestinian Territories over more than a decade. Despite having strong anti-regime sentiment, Palestinians initially lacked the internal organizational strength often seen as necessary for protest. This book provides a foundation for understanding participation and mobilization under these difficult conditions. It argues that, under these conditions, integration into state institutions - schools, prisons and courts - paradoxically makes individuals more likely to resist against the state. Diverse evidence drawn from field research - including the first, large-scale survey of participants and non-participants in Palestinian resistance, Arabic language interviews, and archival sources - supports the argument. The book's findings explain how anti-regime resistance can occur even without the strong civil society organizations often regarded as necessary for protest and, thus, suggest new avenues for supporting civil resistance movements.
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    ISBN: 9781108672214
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 319 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 13
    DDC: 960.32
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2018 ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Decolonization History 20th century ; Decolonization History 21st century ; Afrika ; Africa Politics and government 1945-1960 ; Africa Politics and government 1960- ; Africa Colonial influence ; Africa History 20th century ; Africa History 21st century
    Abstract: Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked and interacted with each other. Covering the transformation of Africa from a continent marked by colonisation to one of independent states, Frederick Cooper follows the 'development question' across time, seeing how first colonial regimes and then African elites sought to transform African society in their own ways. He shows how people in cities and villages tried to make their way in an unequal world, through times of hope, despair, renewed possibilities, and continued uncertainties. Looking beyond the debate over what or who may be to blame, Cooper explores alternatives for the future.
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    ISBN: 9781108649377 , 9781108491938 , 9781108741330
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 304 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Auerbach, Adam Michael, 1982 - Demanding development
    DDC: 307.3/3640954
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    Keywords: Marginality, Social Political aspects ; Slums Political aspects ; Slums Government policy ; Urban poor Political activity ; Public goods Political aspects ; Party affinity ; Municipal government ; Marginality, Social ; Political aspects ; India ; Slums ; Political aspects ; India ; Slums ; Government policy ; India ; Urban poor ; Political activity ; India ; Public goods ; Political aspects ; India ; Party affinity ; India ; Municipal government ; India
    Abstract: India's urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to local public goods and services - paved roads, piped water, trash removal, sewers, and streetlights. Why are some vulnerable communities able to demand and secure development from the state while others fail? Drawing on more than two years of fieldwork in the north Indian cities of Bhopal and Jaipur, Demanding Development accounts for the uneven success of India's slum residents in securing local public goods and services. Auerbach's theory centers on the political organization of slum settlements and the informal slum leaders who spearhead resident efforts to make claims on the state - in particular, those slum leaders who are party workers. He finds striking variation in the extent to which networks of party workers have spread across slum settlements. Demanding Development shows how this variation in the density and partisan distribution of party workers across settlements has powerful consequences for the ability of residents to politically mobilize to improve local conditions.
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    ISBN: 9781108349444
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 247 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ventimiglia, Andrew Copyrighting God
    DDC: 346.7304/82
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    Keywords: Copyright infringement History ; Intellectual property History ; Religious institutions Law and legislation ; History ; Religious minorities Legal status, laws, etc ; Actions and defenses ; Religion and law ; Copyright infringement ; United States ; History ; Intellectual property ; United States ; History ; Religious institutions ; Law and legislation ; United States ; History ; Religious minorities ; Legal status, laws, etc ; United States ; Actions and defenses ; United States ; Religion and law ; United States ; USA ; Religiöse Organisation ; Urheberrecht ; Heilige Schrift
    Abstract: Copyrighting God provides the first detailed account of how American religious organizations used copyright in sacred texts not simply for economic gain but also for social organization and control. Including chapters on the angelic authorship of The Urantia Book, Mary Baker Eddy's use of copyright to construct the Christian Science Church, interdenominational disputes in the Worldwide Church of God, and the Church of Scientology's landmark lawsuits against Internet service providers, this book examines how religious copyright owners mobilized the law in order to organize communities, protect sacred goods, produce new forms of spiritual identity, and even enchant the material world. In doing so, this book demonstrates that these organizations all engaged in complex efforts to harmonize legal arguments and theological rationales in order to care for and protect religious media, thereby coming to a nuanced understanding of secular law as a resource for, and obstacle to, their unique spiritual objectives.
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    ISBN: 9781108626286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 204 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fasani, Francesco Does immigration increase crime?
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    Keywords: Crime ; Emigration and immigration Social aspects ; Emigration and immigration law ; Alien criminals ; Illegal aliens ; Illegal aliens ; Emigration and immigration law ; Alien criminals ; Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Einwanderung ; Migrationspolitik ; Kriminalität ; Europäische Union ; Migrationspolitik ; Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation ; Kriminalität
    Abstract: Do migrants lead to an increase of crime rates in their host societies? This highly contentious issue has become a mainstay in the political debate and a lightning rod for the galvanization of populist movements, despite often lacking any empirical support. In this game-changing book, the authors examine what the existing data actually says, and provide their own novel evidence on the immigration-crime connection. Taking the unusual approach of analysing the subject from an economic perspective, the authors build on the pioneering work of Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker to construct their innovative arguments. By considering evidence from different countries, with a focus on establishing causal relationships, the authors are able to analyse not only if migrants do cause crime but also whether migration policies can play a role in shaping incentives for migrants to engage in crime. This book will appeal to students and academics across the social sciences, as well as citizens interested in this topical issue.
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    ISBN: 9781108631662
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 218 Seiten) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Holes in the safety net
    DDC: 362.5/560973
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    Keywords: Föderalismus ; Armutsbekämpfung ; Sozialpolitik ; Öffentliche Sozialleistungen ; Sozialrecht ; Armut ; USA ; Public welfare ; Poverty Government policy ; Legal assistance to the poor ; Federal government ; State governments ; Public welfare ; United States ; Poverty ; Government policy ; United States ; Legal assistance to the poor ; United States ; Federal government ; United States ; State governments ; United States ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Föderalismus ; Armut
    Abstract: While the United States continues to recover from the 2008 Great Recession, the country still faces unprecedented inequality as increasing numbers of poor families struggle to get by with little assistance from the government. Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty offers a grounded look at how states and the federal government provide assistance to poor people. With chapters covering everything from welfare reform to recent efforts by states to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, the book avoids unnecessary jargon and instead focuses on how programs operate in practice. This timely work should be read by anyone who cares about poverty, rising inequality, and the relationship between state, local, and federal levels of government.
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    ISBN: 9781108354721 , 1108354726
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 595 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge handbook of policing in the United States
    DDC: 363.20973
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    Keywords: Police ; Criminal justice, Administration of ; Police ; United States ; Criminal justice, Administration of ; United States ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Polizei
    Abstract: The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory. It unveils a range of experiences - from the police chief of a major metropolitan force to ordinary people targeted for policing on the street - and asks important questions about whether and why we need the police, before analyzing the law of policing, police use of force, and police violence, paying particular attention to the issue of discrimination against marginalized and vulnerable communities at the blunt end of police interference. The book also discusses technological innovations and proposals for reform. Written in accessible language, this interdisciplinary work will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding the present and future of policing in the United States
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Aug 2019) , Machine generated contents note: Part I. The View from the Streets: 1. Policing as though the public really matters: a call for outcome-based policing Cameron McLay; 2. Policing in St Louis: 'I feel like a runaway slave sometimes' Thomas Harvey and Janae Staecer; Part II. Do We Need Public Police?: 3. Why we need police Justin McCrary and Deepak Premkumar; 4. Police abolitionist discourse? Why it's been missing (and why it matters) Jonathan Simon and Eduardo Bautista Duron; 5. The police as civic neighbors Eric J. Miller; 6. Pretext and justification: republicanism, policing, and race Ekow Yankah; 7. The private policing paradox Elizabeth Joh; Part III. The Law of Policing: 8. Justifying police practices: the example of arrests Rachel Harmon; 9. Police interrogation and suspect confessions Richard A. Leo; 10. How fear shapes policing in the US David A. Harris; 11. The futile Fourth Amendment: understanding police excessive force doctrine through an empirical assessment of Graham v , - Connor Osagie K. Obasogie and Zachary Newman; 12. The problematic prosecution of an Asian American police officer: notes from a participant in People v Peter Liang Gabriel J. Chin; Part IV. Police Force and Police Violence: 13. Confrontational proactive policing: benefits, costs, and disparate racial impacts Charles Manski and Daniel S. Nagin; 14. Race, police, and the production of capital homicides Jeff Fagan and Amanda Geller; 15. What drives variation in killings by urban police in the United States - two empirical puzzles Franklin Zimring; Part V. Discrimination: 16. Race, pedestrian checks, and the Fourth Amendment Devon W. Carbado; 17. In the shadows: policing immigration in the criminal justice system and its impact on racial disparities and identity Yolanda Vazquez; 18. Policing 'radicalization' Amna Akbar; 19. Police and the criminalization of LGBT people Ilan H. Meyer, Naomi G. Goldberg, Amira Hasenbush, Christy Mallory and Lara Stemple; 20 , - Police sexual violence Tamara Rice Lave; 21. Policing the mentally ill in Los Angeles on the frontlines of transinstitutionalization Natalie Pifer; Part VI. Technology: 22. The pitfalls of police technology: a minority report Kami Chavis; 23. Citizenship talk Bennett Capers; 24. Predictive policing theory Andrew Guthrie Ferguson; 25. Big data surveillance: the case of policing Sarah Brayne; Part VII. Reform: 26. Unions and police reform Stephen Rushin; 27. Procedural justice and policing: four new directions Rebecca Hollander Blumoff; 28. Moving toward an American police-community reconciliation framework David Kennedy and Jonathan Ben-Menachem
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    ISBN: 9781108235983
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 325 Seiten)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Regulating religion in Asia
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    Keywords: Religion and state Congresses ; Religious law and legislation Congresses ; Religion and state ; Asia ; Congresses ; Religious law and legislation ; Asia ; Congresses ; Asia ; Religion ; 21st century ; Congresses ; Asia Congresses Religion 21st century
    Abstract: In recent years, law and religion scholarship has increasingly emphasized the need to study the interaction of legal and religious ideas and institutions, norms and practices. The overall question that this scholarship explores may be stated as follows: how do legal and religious ideas and institutions, methods and mechanisms, beliefs and believers influence each other, for better and for worse, in the past, present and future? This volume engages this area of scholarship by examining how law regulates religion, and how religion responds to such regulations. It examines underlying norms influencing state regulation of religion, and challenges emerging from such regulation. Importantly, this volume will go beyond the conventional enquiries that draw upon the Anglo-European approaches and experiences, and emphasize instead Asian perspectives in order to expand and build upon existing understandings about the complex relationship between law and religion.
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    ISBN: 9781108528771
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 317 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Polycentricity in the European Union
    DDC: 340.9094
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    Keywords: Legal polycentricity ; Conflict of laws ; International and municipal law ; Legitimacy of governments ; Legal polycentricity ; European Union countries ; Conflict of laws ; European Union countries ; International and municipal law ; European Union countries ; Legitimacy of governments ; European Union countries ; Europäische Union ; Polyzentrismus
    Abstract: Supranational governance is being challenged by politicians and citizens around the EU as over-centralized and undemocratic. This book is premised on the idea that polycentric governance, developed by Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, is a fruitful place to start for addressing this challenge. Assessing the presence of, and potential for, polycentric governance within the EU means approaching established principles and practices from a new perspective. While the debate on these issues is rich, longstanding and interdisciplinary, it has proven difficult to sidestep the 'renationalisation/federalisation' dichotomy. The aim of this volume is not to reject the EU's institutional structure but provide a different benchmark for the assessment of its functioning. Polycentric theory highlights the importance of multilevel horizontal relationships within the EU - between states, but also between many sub-state actors, all the way down to individuals. This helps us answer the question: how do we achieve self-governance in an interdependent world?
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    ISBN: 9781108630313
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 246 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tsourapas, Gerasimos The politics of migration in modern Egypt
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    Keywords: Migrationspolitik ; Internationale Migration ; Arbeitnehmer ; Migration ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Arbeitskräftemangel ; Auswanderer ; Auswanderung ; Einwanderung ; Einwanderer ; Zuwanderungsrecht ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Weltwirtschaft ; Interdependenz ; Internationales politisches System ; Politischer Prozess ; Regionalentwicklung ; Egypt ; Emigration and immigration ; Egypt ; Politics and government ; Egypt Politics and government ; Egypt Emigration and immigration ; Ägypten ; Arabische Staaten
    Abstract: In this ground-breaking work, Gerasimos Tsourapas examines how migration and political power are inextricably linked, and enhances our understanding of how authoritarian regimes rely on labour emigration across the Middle East and the Global South. Dr Tsourapas identifies how autocracies develop strategies to tie cross-border mobility to their own survival, highlighting domestic political struggles and the shifting regional and international landscape. In Egypt, the ruling elite has long shaped labour emigration policy in accordance with internal and external tactics aimed at regime survival. Dr Tsourapas draws on a wealth of previously-unavailable archival sources in Arabic and English, as well as extensive original interviews with Egyptian elites and policy-makers in order to produce a novel account of authoritarian politics in the Arab world. The book offers a new insight into the evolution and political rationale behind regime strategies towards migration, from Gamal Abdel Nasser's 1952 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Uprisings
    Abstract: Introduction -- 'Egyptians don't emigrate' : the domestic politics of migration restriction, 1952-1970 -- Exporting the Free Officers' revolution : migration & external regime legitimacy under Nasser -- 'Our most precious asset' : the domestic politics of migration liberalisation, 1970-2011 -- 'The rich hive invaded by foreign bees' : migration & external regime legitimacy under Sadat and Mubarak -- Egypt's road to the "Arab Spring"
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    ISBN: 9781108761208
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 274 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als McClendon, Gwyneth H., 1983 - From pews to politics
    DDC: 261.709676
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    Keywords: Christianity and politics Sermons ; Political participation ; Political participation Religious aspects ; Christianity and politics ; Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Sermons ; Political participation ; Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Political participation ; Religious aspects ; Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Religion ; Africa, Sub-Saharan Religion ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Christentum ; Politische Beteiligung
    Abstract: Does religion influence political participation? This book takes up this pressing debate using Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa as its empirical base to demonstrate that religious teachings communicated in sermons can influence both the degree and the form of citizens' political participation. McClendon and Riedl document some of the current diversity of sermon content in contemporary Christian houses of worship and then use a combination of laboratory experiments, observational survey data, focus groups, and case comparisons in Zambia, Uganda, and Kenya to interrogate the impact of sermon exposure on political participation and the longevity of that impact. Pews to Politics in Africa leverages the pluralism of sermons in sub-Saharan Africa to gain insight into the content of cultural influences and their consequences for how ordinary citizens participate in politics.
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    ISBN: 9781108355001
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 398 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Prior, Markus, 1974 - Hooked
    DDC: 324.01/9#23
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    Keywords: Democracy Psychological aspects ; Political participation Psychological aspects ; Political psychology ; Political psychology ; Political participation ; Psychological aspects ; Democracy ; Psychological aspects ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Political psychology ; Demokratie ; Politisches Interesse ; Politische Einstellung ; Politisches Verhalten ; Politische Psychologie
    Abstract: Political interest is the strongest predictor of 'good citizenship', yet hardly anything is known about it. For the first time in over three decades, here is a study explaining what political interest is, where it comes from, and why it matters. Providing the most thorough description available of political interest in four Western democracies this study analyzes large household panel data sets rarely used in political science to explain how interest develops in people's lives. In an accessible manner, the book's analytical approach pushes applied social scientists to consider how panel data can be used to better understand political behavior. It does so in a way that doesn't gloss over complexities, and explains them in straightforward language. Advanced statistical methods are presented informally, accompanied by graphical illustrations that require no prior knowledge to understand the methods used
    Abstract: Why political interest matters and how to understand its origins -- The psychology of political interest -- Measuring political interest -- The impact of elections -- 60 years of political interest -- Political interest over the life course: the population average -- Stability and variation in political interest -- Differences in age trajectories -- The big benefits of panel data analysis -- Education -- Parents -- Money, health, and happiness -- Encounters with politics -- The impact of political attitudes and identities -- Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781108648189 , 9781108480277 , 9781108727242
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Series Statement: Asian connections
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ricci, Ronit Banishment and belonging
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    Keywords: Malay literature History and criticism ; Exile (Punishment) in literature ; Malay literature ; Sri Lanka ; History and criticism ; Exile (Punishment) in literature ; Sri Lanka ; Malaien ; Literatur ; Exil ; Diaspora ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document - only to go their own ways. But despite different trajectories, all three are tied to narratives of banishment and exile. Ronit Ricci suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages, space and time: Sarandib, where Adam was banished from Paradise; Lanka, where Sita languished in captivity; and Ceylon, faraway island of exile for Indonesian royalty under colonialism. Utilising Malay manuscripts and documents from Sri Lanka, Javanese chronicles, and Dutch and British sources, Ricci explores histories and imaginings of displacement related to the island through a study of the Sri Lankan Malays and their connections to an exilic past.
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    ISBN: 9781139108096
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 305 pages)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
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    Abstract: Are emotions human universals? Is the concept of emotion an invention of Western tradition? If people in other cultures live radically different emotional lives how can we ever understand them? Using vivid, often dramatic, examples from around the world, and in dialogue with current work in psychology and philosophy, Andrew Beatty develops an anthropological perspective on the affective life, showing how emotions colour experience and transform situations; how, in turn, they are shaped by culture and history. In stark contrast with accounts that depend on lab simulations, interviews, and documentary reconstruction, he takes the reader into unfamiliar cultural worlds through a 'narrative' approach to emotions in naturalistic settings, showing how emotions tell a story and belong to larger stories. Combining richly detailed reporting with a careful critique of alternative approaches, he argues for an intimate grasp of local realities that restores the heartbeat to ethnography.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies on the American South
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    Keywords: Slaves / Southern States / Psychology ; Masculinity / Southern States / History / 19th century ; African American men / Southern States / Psychology / History / 19th century ; Psychologie ; Männlichkeit ; Afrikaner ; Sklave ; Sklave ; Männlichkeit ; Afrikaner ; Psychologie
    Abstract: Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South. David Stefan Doddington seeks to move beyond unilateral discussions of slave masculinity, and instead demonstrates how the repressions of slavery were both personal and political. Rather than automatically support one another against an emasculatory white society, Doddington explores how enslaved people negotiated identities in relation to one another, through comparisons between men and different forms of manhood held up for judgment. An examination of the framework in which enslaved people crafted identities demonstrates the fluidity of gender as a social and cultural phenomenon that defied monolithic models of black masculinity, solidarity, and victimization. Focusing on work, authority, honor, sex, leisure, and violence, this book is a full-length treatment of the idea of 'masculinity' among slave communities of the Old South
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    ISBN: 9781108602341
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    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
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    Keywords: Sharing Economy ; Transaktionskostenansatz
    Abstract: With the growing popularity of apps such as Uber and Airbnb, there has been a keen interest in the rise of the sharing economy. Michael C. Munger brings these new trends in the economy down to earth by focusing on their relation to the fundamental economic concept of transaction costs. In doing so Munger brings a fresh perspective on the 'sharing economy' in clear and engaging writing that is accessible to both general and specialist readers. He shows how, for the first time, entrepreneurs can sell reductions in transaction costs, rather than reductions in the costs of the products themselves. He predicts that smartphones will be used to commodify excess capacity, and reaches the controversial conclusion that a basic income will be required as a consequence of this new 'transaction costs revolution'.
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    ISBN: 9780511978814
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 352 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to economic and social history
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1820 ; Consumption (Economics) History ; Commerce History ; International trade History ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Außenhandel ; Globalisierung ; Außenhandel ; Globalisierung ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Geschichte 1500-1820
    Abstract: The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive feature of material life after 1500 as people and things became ever more entangled. She shows how wider populations gained access to more new goods than ever before and, through industrious labour and smuggling, acquired goods that heightened comfort, redefined leisure and widened access to fashion. Consumption systems shaped by race and occupation also emerged. Lemire reveals how material cosmopolitanism flourished not simply in great port cities like Lima, Istanbul or Canton, but increasingly in rural settlements and coastal enclaves. The book uncovers the social, economic and cultural forces shaping consumer behaviour, as well as the ways in which consumer goods shaped and defined empires and communities
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    ISBN: 9781108551410
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zwart, Pim The origins of globalization
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Globalisierung ; Welthandel ; Weltwirtschaft
    Abstract: For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden argue that the networks of trade established after the voyages of Columbus and Da Gama of the late fifteenth century had transformative effects inaugurating the first era of globalization. The global flows of ships, people, money and commodities between 1500 and 1800 were substantial, and the re-alignment of production and distribution resulting from these connections had important consequences for demography, well-being, state formation and the long-term economic growth prospects of the societies involved in the newly created global economy. Whether early globalization had benign or malignant effects differed by region, but the world economy as we now know it originated in these changes in the early modern period.
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    ISBN: 9781139424721
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 225 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 50
    DDC: 956.9104/22
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-2015 ; Politik ; Gewalt ; Bürgerkrieg in Syrien ; Syrien
    Abstract: Over much of its rule, the regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor Bashar al-Asad deployed violence on a massive scale to maintain its grip on political power. In this book, Salwa Ismail examines the rationalities and mechanisms of governing through violence. In a detailed and compelling account, Ismail shows how the political prison and the massacre, in particular, developed as apparatuses of government, shaping Syrians' political subjectivities, defining their understanding of the terms of rule and structuring their relations and interactions with the regime and with one another. Examining ordinary citizens' everyday life experiences and memories of violence across diverse sites, from the internment camp and the massacre to the family and school, The Rule of Violence demonstrates how practices of violence, both in their routine and spectacular forms, fashioned Syrians' affective life, inciting in them feelings of humiliation and abjection, and infusing their lived environment with dread and horror. This form of rule is revealed to be constraining of citizens' political engagement, while also demanding of their action.
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    ISBN: 9781108555722
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 262 pages)
    DDC: 363.5/10973
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    Keywords: Rassendiskriminierung ; Segregation ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; USA
    Abstract: Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services - from schools, to safe neighborhoods, to clean water.
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    ISBN: 9781108291286
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xxi, 241 pages)
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    Keywords: Microfinance ; Women in development ; Women Economic conditions ; Mikrofinanzierung ; Frau ; Entwicklungsländer ; Entwicklungsländer ; Frau ; Mikrofinanzierung
    Abstract: Originally conceived as small-scale loans allowing impoverished women to invest in informal sector economic opportunities, microfinance programs have grown rapidly across the globe over the past two decades to become the most common development tool used to empower women in low- and middle-income countries. Women and Microfinance in the Global South incorporates a meta-synthesis of thirty qualitative empirical cases from Asia, Africa, and Latin America to explore the links between microfinance and women's empowerment, questioning how microfinance facilitates the economic and socio-political empowerment of women. The theoretical framework assesses both positive and negative outcomes of microfinance at the grassroots level, considering how such market-based interventions intersect with patriarchal beliefs and practices, and analyses the different mechanisms through which microfinance can empower or disempower women. It will interest scholars of developmental studies and women's issues, as well as practitioners, NGOs, and policymakers
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    ISBN: 9781316761663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 248 pages)
    Series Statement: Problems of international politics
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    Keywords: Border security ; Politische Theorie ; Grenze ; Gesellschaft ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Elfter September ; USA ; USA ; Grenze ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Elfter September ; Politische Theorie ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades. The book contributes to debates within political science on sovereignty, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, human rights and global justice. In particular, the new politics of borders reveal a sovereignty that is not waning, but changing, expanding beyond the state carapace and engaging certain logics of empire
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 345 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Latin American Studies 111
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    DDC: 307.760981/53
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    Keywords: Public spaces / Brazil / Rio de Janeiro ; Streets / Social aspects / Brazil / Rio de Janeiro ; Community life / Brazil / Rio de Janeiro ; Sociology, Urban / Brazil / Rio de Janeiro ; Straßenverkehr ; Straße ; Öffentlicher Raum ; Stadtleben ; Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) / Social conditions ; Rio de Janeiro ; Rio de Janeiro ; Straße ; Stadtleben ; Straßenverkehr ; Öffentlicher Raum
    Abstract: The streets of Rio de Janeiro have long been characterized as exuberant and exotic places for social commerce, political expression, and the production and dissemination of culture. The Street is Ours examines the changing uses and meanings of Rio de Janeiro's streets and argues that the automobile, by literally occupying much of the street's space and by introducing death and injury on a new scale, significantly transformed the public commons. Once viewed as a natural resource and a place of equitable access, deep meaning, and diverse functions, the street has changed into a space of exclusion that prioritizes automotive movement. Taking an environmental approach, Shawn William Miller surveys the costs and failures of this spatial transformation and demonstrates how Rio's citizens have resisted the automobile's intrusions and, in some cases, even reversed the long trend of closing the street against its potential utilities
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    ISBN: 9781108354707
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 196 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fu, Diana Mobilizing without the masses
    DDC: 320.951
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    Keywords: Civil society ; Political participation ; Social movements ; Gruppe ; Organisation ; Arbeiterbewegung ; Soziale Kontrolle ; Machtstruktur ; Protestbewegung ; Political participation ; China ; Social movements ; China ; Civil society ; China ; China ; China ; Gewerkschaft ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Politische Kontrolle ; Unterdrückung
    Abstract: When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political ethnography inside both legal and blacklisted labor organizations in China, this book reveals how state repression is deployed on the ground and to what effect on mobilization. It presents a novel dynamic of civil society contention - mobilizing without the masses - that lowers the risk of activism under duress. Instead of facilitating collective action, activists coach the aggrieved to challenge authorities one by one. In doing so, they lower the risks of organizing while empowering the weak. This dynamic represents a third pathway of contention that challenges conventional understandings of mobilization in an illiberal state. It takes readers inside the world of underground labor organizing and opens the black box of repression inside the world's most powerful authoritarian state
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    ISBN: 9781108605007
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 198 Seiten) , 1 Illustration
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    DDC: 126
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    Keywords: Subject (Philosophy) ; Philosophical anthropology ; Poststrukturalismus ; Anthropologie ; Subjekt ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Anthropologie ; Poststrukturalismus ; Subjekt
    Abstract: This volume responds to the often-proclaimed 'death of the subject' in post-structuralist theorizing, and to calls from across the social sciences for 'post-humanist' alternatives to liberal humanism in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those approaches and debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling individual subjects', that provides a focus for the debate, and it brings together a distinguished collection of essays, which exhibit a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography
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    ISBN: 9781139061766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 201 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barber, Karin 1949- A history of African popular culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barber, Karin 1949- A history of African popular culture
    DDC: 306.0967
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alltagskultur ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Afrika
    Abstract: Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and fiction of townships and mine compounds in South Africa, and from today's East African streets where Swahili hip hop artists gather to the juggernaut of the Nollywood film industry, this book weaves together a wealth of sites and scenes of cultural production. In doing so, it provides an ideal text for students and researchers seeking to learn more about the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of popular cultural forms in African history.
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    ISBN: 9781316551028
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 212 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Joseph, Jonathan Varieties of resilience
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    Keywords: International relations Decision making ; Complexity (Philosophy) ; Emergency management Decision making ; Organizational resilience Political aspects ; Crisis management in government ; Governance ; Sozialverhalten ; Verhalten ; Konflikt ; Anpassung ; Resilienz ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Crisis management in government ; Organizational resilience ; Political aspects ; Emergency management ; Decision making ; International relations ; Decision making ; Complexity (Philosophy) ; Erde ; USA ; Europäische Union ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Terrorismus ; Zivilschutz ; Kritische Infrastruktur ; Resilienz ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: Resilience refers to the ability of individuals, groups and societies to withstand and recover from external shocks. This pioneering book-length comparative study examines resilience as it is experienced across different countries, such as the UK, US, France, Germany and EU. Furthermore it considers cases from policy sectors including national security, counterterrorism, civil protection, disaster risk reduction, critical infrastructure protection and overseas interventions. In doing so, Joseph provides an account of why it is that resilience has become such a popular policy topic, looking at its focus on complexity, the human and the role of resilient individuals and communities. Arguing that resilience has risen to prominence because it fits with a particularly Anglo-Saxon and neoliberal form of governance, Joseph discovers differing results across policy domains and national contexts, fomenting variations and tensions in the international discourse of resilience in policy-making
    Abstract: Introduction : resilience in context -- The development of resilience -- Resilience in national security and counter-terrorism strategy -- Disasters, emergencies and infrastructure protection -- Resilience in development strategy and humanitarian intervention -- The Anglo-Saxon approach to resilience and the alternatives -- Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781108557108
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 287 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kenney, Michael, 1967 - The Islamic state in Britain
    DDC: 322/.10941
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    Keywords: Jihad ; Islamic fundamentalism ; Radicalism ; Terrorism Religious aspects ; Islam ; Islam and politics ; Muslims Politics and government ; Muslims Political activity ; Muslims ; Great Britain ; Politics and government ; Muslims ; Political activity ; Great Britain ; Islam and politics ; Great Britain ; Jihad ; Islamic fundamentalism ; Great Britain ; Radicalism ; Great Britain ; Terrorism ; Religious aspects ; Islam ; Great Britain ; Politics and government ; 2007- ; Great Britain Politics and government 2007-
    Abstract: Drawing on extensive field research with activists on the streets of London, Michael Kenney provides the first ethnographic study of a European network implicated in terrorist attacks and sending fighters to the Islamic State. For over twenty years, al-Muhajiroun (Arabic for 'the Emigrants') strived to create an Islamic state in Britain through high-risk activism. A number of Emigrants engaged in violence, while others joined the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Kenney explains why young Britons joined the Emigrants, how they radicalized and adapted their activism, and why many of them eventually left. Through an innovative mix of ethnography and network analysis, Kenney explains the structure and processes behind this outlawed network and explores its remarkable resilience. What emerges is a complex, nuanced portrait that demystifies the Emigrants while challenging conventional wisdom on radicalization and countering violent extremism
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: meeting the Emigrants; 1. Al-Muhajiroun's small-world solution; 2. Joining the Emigrants; 3. A community of true believers; 4. Resilient activism; 5. Leaving al-Muhajiroun; Conclusion: ending the Emigrants
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    ISBN: 9781108678025
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 307 pages)
    Series Statement: South Asia in the social sciences 7
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    Abstract: In Adivasis and the State, Alf Gunvald Nilsen presents a major study of how subalternity is both constituted and contested through state-society relations in the Bhil heartland of western India. The book unravels the historical processes that subordinated Bhil Adivasi communities to the everyday tyranny of the state and investigates how social movements have mobilised to reclaim citizenship. In doing so, the book also reveals how collective action from below transform the meanings of governmental categories, legal frameworks, and universalising vocabularies of democracy. At the core of the book lies a concern with understanding the dialectics of power and resistance that give form and direction to the political economy of democracy and development in contemporary India. Towards this end, Adivasis and the State contributes a sustained and nuanced Gramscian analysis of hegemony in order to interrogate the possibilities and limits of subaltern political engagement with state structures.
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    ISBN: 9781316888957
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 337 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Clarke, Morgan, 1972 - Islam and law in Lebanon
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Clarke, Morgan, 1972 - Islam and law in Lebanon
    DDC: 349.5692
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    Keywords: Islamic law ; Law Islamic influences ; Law ; Lebanon ; Islamic influences ; Islamic law ; Lebanon ; Libanon ; Staatsrecht ; Islamisches Recht
    Abstract: The modern state of Lebanon, created after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, is home to eighteen officially recognised different religious communities (or sects). Crucially, political office and representation came to be formally shared along confessional lines, and the privileges of power are distributed accordingly. One such key prerogative is exclusivity when it comes to personal status laws: the family legal affairs of each community. In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as Muslim family law, and outside it, as a framework for an Islamic life and society. By bringing together an in-depth analysis of Lebanon's state-sponsored sharia courts with a look at the wider world of religious instruction, this book highlights the breadth of the sharia and the complexity of the contexts within which it is embedded
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Contextualising Sharia Discourse in Lebanon: 1. Court, community and state - a legal genealogy; 2. The consequences for civility; 3. Becoming a shaykh; 4. Lessons in the mosque; Part II. Sharia within the State: 5. Introducing the sharia courts; 6. Marriage before God and the state; 7. Bringing a case; 8. Rulings and reconciliation; 9. The judge as tragic hero; 10. The wider world of the sharia; 11. Reform and rebellion; Part III. Sharia outside the State: 12. Becoming an ayatollah; 13. Making law from the bottom up; 14. The limits of authority; Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781316338179
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology 555
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Neblo, Michael A. Politics with the people
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    Keywords: United States / Congress Constituent communication ; Technological innovations ; United States Constituent communication ; Technological innovations ; Online chat groups Political aspects ; United States ; Political participation Technological innovations ; United States ; Communication in politics Technological innovations ; United States ; Democracy United States ; Representative government and representation United States ; Online chat groups Political aspects ; Political participation Technological innovations ; Communication in politics Technological innovations ; Democracy ; Representative government and representation ; United States ; Congress ; Constituent communication ; Technological innovations ; Representative government and representation ; United States ; Democracy ; United States ; Political participation ; Technological innovations ; United States ; Communication in politics ; Technological innovations ; United States ; Online chat groups ; Political aspects ; United States ; USA ; Repräsentation ; Repräsentative Demokratie ; Direkte Demokratie
    Abstract: Many citizens in the US and abroad fear that democratic institutions have become weak, and continue to weaken. Politics with the People develops the principles and practice of 'directly representative democracy' - a new way of connecting citizens and elected officials to improve representative government. Sitting members of Congress agreed to meet with groups of their constituents via online, deliberative town hall meetings to discuss some of the most important and controversial issues of the day. The results from these experiments reveal a model of how our democracy could work, where politicians consult with and inform citizens in substantive discussions, and where otherwise marginalized citizens participate and are empowered. Moving beyond our broken system of interest group politics and partisan bloodsport, directly representative reforms will help restore citizens' faith in the institutions of democratic self-government, precisely at a time when those institutions themselves feel dysfunctional and endangered
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: directly representative democracy; 1. The spirit and form of popular government; 2. Building a new home style; 3. Half of democracy; 4. Rational ignorance and reasonable learning; 5. (The) deliberative persuasion; 6. Representative connections; 7. Scaling up and scaling out; Conclusion: Republican redux
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    ISBN: 9781108552035
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    Abstract: The Middle East and North Africa have recently experienced one of the highest population growth rates in the world, something which has profoundly affected the wider region and its institutions. In addition, the recent period of unprecedented political turbulence has further complicated the picture, resulting in uprisings and resistance movements that have coincided with intense shifts in socio-cultural norms, as well as economic and political change. Through highlighting the links between population dynamics and the social and political transitions, this book provides a new view of these recent regional changes. The complexity of the changes is further explained in the context of demographic transitions (mortality, fertility, migration) that work hand in hand with development (economic and social modernization) and ultimately, democratization (political modernization). These three Ds (Demographic, Development and Democratic transitions) are central to Elhum Haghighat's analysis of the Middle East and North Africa at this crucial time.
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  • 74
    ISBN: 9781108582834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 216 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tolerance, secularization and democratic politics in South Asia
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    Keywords: Democracy ; Secularism Political aspects ; Toleration ; Democracy ; South Asia ; Secularism ; Political aspects ; South Asia ; Toleration ; South Asia ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Südasien ; Religiöse Minderheit ; Nationale Minderheit ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Demokratisierung
    Abstract: What is the relationship between secularization and tolerance? Critically analyzing the empirical and theoretical foundations of a putatively linear relationship between the two, this volume argues for moving past both romanticised readings of pre-modern tolerance and the unthinking belief that secularization will inevitably lead to tolerance. The essays collected in this volume include contributions from across South Asia that suggest that democratic politics have added a layer of complexity to questions of peaceful co-existence. Modern transformations in religious thought and practice have had contradictory implications for tolerance, which offer rich insights into contemporary debates in the region. This multi-disciplinary volume, which spans history, sociology, anthropology and political theory, questions the uncritical acceptance of tolerance as the best framework for engaging with difference, and probes the complications created by and through democratic politics
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Humeira Iqtidar and Tanika Sarkar; 2. Languages of secularity Sudipta Kaviraj; 3. Secularization of politics: Muslim nationalism and sectarian conflict in South Asia Sadia Saeed; 4. Temple building in secularizing Nepal: materializing religion and ethnicity in a state of transformation Sara Shneiderman; 5. Secularization and 'constitutive moments': insights from partition diplomacy in South Asia Joya Chatterji; 6. Tolerance in Bangladesh: discourses of state and society Samia Huq; 7. In the void of faith: Sunnyata, sovereignty, minority Aishwary Kumar; 8. Pillayar and the politicians: secularization and toleration at the end of Sri Lanka's Civil War Jonathan Spencer
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  • 75
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108334945
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    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 357 pages)
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    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Social conflict / Political aspects / United States ; Religion and politics / United States ; Political culture / United States ; Cultural pluralism / United States ; Polarization (Social sciences) / United States ; Mediation ; Kulturelle Identität ; Polarisierung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Politische Kultur ; Soziale Situation ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Konflikt ; United States / Social conditions / 21st century ; USA ; USA ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Politische Kultur ; Polarisierung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Konflikt ; Soziale Situation ; Mediation
    Abstract: US citizens perceive their society to be one of the most diverse and religiously tolerant in the world today. Yet seemingly intractable religious intolerance and moral conflict abound throughout contemporary US public life - from abortion law battles, same-sex marriage, post-9/11 Islamophobia, public school curriculum controversies, to moral and religious dimensions of the Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street movements, and Tea Party populism. Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society develops an approach to democratic discourse and coalition-building across deep moral and religious divisions. Drawing on conflict transformation in peace studies, recent American pragmatist thought, and models of agonistic democracy, Jason Springs argues that, in circumstances riven with conflict between strong religious identities and deep moral and political commitments, productive engagement may depend on thinking creatively about how to constructively utilize conflict and intolerance. The result is an approach oriented by the recognition of conflict as a constituent and life-giving feature of social and political relationships
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  • 76
    ISBN: 9781108120302
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 411 Seiten) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Puffer, Sheila M., 1953 - Hammer & silicon
    DDC: 338/.0640973
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Migranten ; Russen ; Osteuropäer ; USA ; Technological innovations ; Technological innovations ; United States ; Former Soviet republics ; Emigration and immigration ; United States ; Emigration and immigration ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Former Soviet republics Emigration and immigration ; USA ; Sowjetunion ; Einwanderung ; Geschichte 1972-2015
    Abstract: This deeply personal book tells the untold story of the significant contributions of technical professionals from the former Soviet Union to the US innovation economy, particularly in the sectors of software, social media, biotechnology, and medicine. Drawing upon in-depth interviews, it channels the voices and stories of more than 150 professionals who emigrated from 11 of the 15 former Soviet republics between the 1970s and 2015, and who currently work in the innovation hubs of Silicon Valley and Boston/Cambridge. Using the social science theories of institutions, imprinting, and identity, the authors analyze the political, social, economic, and educational forces that have characterized Soviet immigration over the past 40 years, showing how the particularities of the Soviet context may have benefited or challenged interviewees' work and social lives. The resulting mosaic of perspectives provides valuable insight into the impact of immigration on US economic development, specifically in high technology and innovation
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  • 77
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107280571
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 206 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Classics after antiquity
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kasimis, Demetra, 1980 - The perpetual immigrant and the limits of Athenian democracy
    DDC: 323.60938/5
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    Keywords: Metics ; Citizenship ; Democracy ; Citizenship ; Greece ; Athens ; Democracy ; Greece ; Athens ; Metics ; Athens (Greece) ; Emigration and immigration ; Athens (Greece) Emigration and immigration ; Griechenland ; Metöke ; Einwanderung ; Bürgerrecht
    Abstract: In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized by these political realities, classical thinkers cast a critical eye on the nativism defining democracy's membership rules and explored the city's anxieties over intermingling and passing. Yet readers continue to treat immigration and citizenship as separate phenomena of little interest to theorists writing at the time. In The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy, Demetra Kasimis makes visible the long-overlooked centrality of immigration to the originary practices of democracy and political theory in Athens. She dismantles the interpretive and political assumptions that have led readers to turn away from the metic and reveals the key role this figure plays in such texts as Plato's Republic. The result is a series of original readings that boldly reframes urgent questions about how democracies order their non-citizen members
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Autochthony Trouble: 1. The metic in and out of theory; 2. Immigrant passing in Euripides' Ion, the tragedy of blood-based membership; Part II. A Metric Republic in Three Acts: 3. The Republic as a metic space; 4. Plato's open decret; 5. Of mimesis and metic: a reading of democracy in Book VIII; Part III. Evading Detection: 6. Citizen passing in Demosthenes 57: the oration of Athenian blood; Conclusion: political theory from the edges of Athenian democracy; Appendix. A metic timeline
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  • 78
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108560573
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 316 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Settle, Jaime, 1985 - Frenemies
    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Facebook (Firm) ; Facebook (Electronic resource) ; Polarization (Social sciences) History 21st century ; Right and left (Political science) History 21st century ; Ideology History 21st century ; Social media History 21st century ; Facebook (Firm) ; Facebook (Electronic resource) ; Social media ; United States ; History ; 21st century ; Polarization (Social sciences) ; United States ; History ; 21st century ; Right and left (Political science) ; United States ; History ; 21st century ; Ideology ; United States ; History ; 21st century ; USA ; Social Media ; Politik
    Abstract: Why do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among American political elites, the way we communicate on Facebook uniquely facilitates psychological polarization among the American public. Frenemies introduces the END Framework of social media interaction. END refers to a subset of content that circulates in a social media ecosystem: a personalized, quantified blend of politically informative 'expression', 'news', and 'discussion' seamlessly interwoven into a wider variety of socially informative content. Scrolling through the News Feed triggers a cascade of processes that result in negative attitudes about those who disagree with us politically. The inherent features of Facebook, paired with the norms of how people use the site, heighten awareness of political identity, bias the inferences people make about others' political views, and foster stereotyped evaluations of the political out-group
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  • 79
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108561273
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (74 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements
    Series Statement: Elements in politics and society in Southeast Asia
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tan, Kenneth Paul, 1972 - Singapore
    DDC: 320.6095957
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    Keywords: Power (Social sciences) ; Branding (Marketing) ; Nationalism ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Politische Beteiligung ; Politischer Wandel ; Soft Power ; Kultur ; Ideologie ; Hegemonie ; Nationalitätenstaat ; Religion ; Megastadt ; Globalisierung ; Bürgerliche Gesellschaft ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Entwicklung ; Tendenz ; Branding (Marketing) ; Singapore ; Nationalism ; Singapore ; Power (Social sciences) ; Singapore ; Singapore ; Politics and government ; 1990- ; Singapore Politics and government 1990- ; Singapur
    Abstract: Contemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state and a cosmopolitan global city. To manage fundamental contradictions, the state takes the lead in authoring the national narrative. This is partly an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved through more commercially motivated and outward facing efforts at nation and city branding. Both sets of processes contribute to Singapore's capacity to influence foreign affairs, if only for national self-preservation. For a small state with resource limitations, this is mainly through the exercise of smart power, or the ability to strategically combine soft and hard power resources
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  • 80
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316227183
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 362 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Eidlin, Barry Labor and the class idea in the United States and Canada
    DDC: 322/.20973
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    Keywords: Labor policy ; Labor ; Labor ; Labor policy ; Labor movement ; Labor movement ; Labor movement ; United States ; Labor movement ; Canada ; Labor policy ; United States ; Labor policy ; Canada ; Labor ; United States ; Labor ; Canada ; USA ; Kanada ; Arbeiterbewegung
    Abstract: Why are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequality. Conventional wisdom points to differences in political cultures, party systems, and labor laws. But Barry Eidlin's systematic analysis of archival and statistical data shows the limits of conventional wisdom, and presents a novel explanation for the cross-border difference. He shows that it resulted from different ruling party responses to worker upsurge during the Great Depression and World War II. Paradoxically, US labor's long-term decline resulted from what was initially a more pro-labor ruling party response, while Canadian labor's relative long-term strength resulted from a more hostile ruling party response. These struggles embedded 'the class idea' more deeply in policies, institutions, and practices than in the US. In an age of growing economic inequality and broken systems of political representation, Eidlin's analysis offers insight for those seeking to understand these trends, as well as those seeking to change them
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  • 81
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108224987
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 226 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Michener, Jamila, 1981 - Fragmented democracy
    DDC: 368.4/200973
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    Keywords: Medical policy ; Medicaid Political aspects ; Medical policy ; Medicaid ; Medicaid ; Political aspects ; United States ; Medical policy ; United States ; USA ; Gesundheitswesen ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Medicaid
    Abstract: Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to federalism: the federal government determines its broad contours, while states have tremendous discretion over how Medicaid is designed and implemented. Where some locales are generous and open handed, others are tight-fisted and punitive. In Fragmented Democracy, Jamila Michener demonstrates the consequences of such disparities for democratic citizenship. Unpacking how federalism transforms Medicaid beneficiaries' interpretations of government and structures their participation in politics, the book examines American democracy from the vantage point(s) of those who are living in or near poverty, (disproportionately) Black or Latino, and reliant on a federated government for vital resources
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9781108277952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 170 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/320973
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    Keywords: Federal Highway Program (U.S.) ; Transportation and state / United States ; Highway planning / Political aspects / United States ; Political geography ; Suburbs / Political aspects / United States ; Election districts / United States ; Urban policy / United States ; United States / Politics and government
    Abstract: The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics, focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history: the federal highway system. For decades, federally subsidized highways have selectively facilitated migration into fast-growing suburbs, producing an increasingly non-urban Republican electorate. This book examines the highway programs' policy origins at the national level and traces how these intersected with local politics and interests to facilitate complex, mutually-reinforcing processes that have shaped America's growing urban-suburban divide and, with it, the politics of metropolitan public investment. As Americans have become more polarized on urban-suburban lines, attitudes towards transportation policy - a once quintessentially 'local' and non-partisan policy area - are now themselves driven by partisanship, endangering investments in metropolitan programs that provide access to opportunity for millions of Americans
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- How highways facilitate partisan geographic sorting -- Highways polarize metropolitan political geography -- Transportation becomes a partisan issue -- Implications for transportation policymaking -- Conclusion
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  • 83
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108559461
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 380 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bose, Sumantra, 1968 - Secular states, religious politics
    DDC: 322/.10954
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    Keywords: Religion and politics ; Hinduism and state ; Islam and state ; Islam and state ; Religion and politics ; Secularism Political aspects ; Secularism Political aspects ; Secularism ; Political aspects ; India ; Secularism ; Political aspects ; Turkey ; Religion and politics ; India ; Religion and politics ; Turkey ; Hinduism and state ; India ; Islam and state ; India ; Islam and state ; Turkey ; India ; Politics and government ; 1977- ; Turkey ; Politics and government ; 1980- ; India Politics and government 1977- ; Turkey Politics and government 1980- ; Türkei ; Indien ; Säkularismus
    Abstract: A pioneering comparative study of the two major attempts to build secular states - where the state's constitutional identity and fundamental character are not based on or derived from any religious faith - in the non-Western world. This book explains the origins, evolution and latterly the decline of secularism as a core principle of the state in India and Turkey. The anti-secular political transformations of the twenty-first century are the rise of a Sunni-Islamist definition of Turkish national identity to hegemonic power, and Hindu nationalism as India's pre-eminent political force. Both secular-state models adopted a similar operational doctrine of state intervention in and regulation of the religious sphere, rather than a Western-style separation of church and state. But, Turkish state-secularism took a culturally deracinated and harshly authoritarian form that led to its failure, whereas India's secular state - though flawed in practice - followed a culturally rooted and democratic path that makes secularism indispensable to India's future
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  • 84
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108658058
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 263 Seiten)
    Series Statement: LSE international studies
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    DDC: 327.101
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    Keywords: International relations / Social aspects ; Cultural pluralism ; Internationale Politik ; Soziologie ; Vielfalt ; Kultur ; Internationale Politik ; Kultur ; Vielfalt ; Soziologie
    Abstract: The rise of non-Western Great Powers, the spread of transnational religiously-justified insurgencies, and the resurgence of ethno-nationalism raise fundamental questions about the effects of cultural diversity on international order. Yet current debate - among academics, popular commentators, and policy-makers alike - rests on flawed understandings of culture and inaccurate assumptions about how historically cultural diversity has shaped the evolution of international orders. In this path-breaking book, Christian Reus-Smit details how the major theories of international relations have consistently misunderstood the nature and effects of culture, returning time and again to a conception long abandoned in specialist fields: the idea of cultures as coherent, bounded, and constitutive. Drawing on theoretical insights from anthropology, cultural studies, and sociology, and informed by new histories of diverse historical orders, this book presents a new theoretical account of the relationship between cultural diversity and international order: an account with far-reaching implications for how we understand contemporary transformations
    Description / Table of Contents: The road not taken -- Cultured realism -- The culture of international society -- Culture as norms -- Rational culture -- The organization of diversity
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108278461
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 198 pages) , Illustrationen
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kuzu, Durukan Multiculturalism in Turkey
    DDC: 323.1191/5970561
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    Keywords: Multiculturalism ; Minorities Case studies ; Kurds Politics and government ; Kurds ; Turkey ; Politics and government ; Minorities ; Case studies ; Multiculturalism ; Turkey ; Turkey ; Ethnic relations ; Turkey Ethnic relations ; Türkei ; Kurden
    Abstract: Over the past couple of decades, there have been many efforts to seek a solution to the often violent situation in which Kurdish citizens of Turkey find themselves. These efforts have included a gradual programme of political recognition and multiculturalism. Here, Durukan Kuzu examines the case of Kurdish citizens in Turkey through the lens of the global debate on multiculturalism, exploring the limitations of these policies. He thereby challenges the conventional thinking about national minorities and their autonomy, and offers a scientifically grounded comparative framework for the study of multiculturalism. Through comparison of the situation of Kurds in Turkey with that of other national minorities - such as the Flemish in Belgium, Québécois in Canada, Corsicans in France, and Muslims in Greece - the reader is invited to question in what forms multiculturalism can work for different national minorities. A bottom-up approach is used to offer a fresh insight into the Kurdish community and to highlight conflicting views about which form the politics of recognition could take
    Abstract: The theory of national minorities: from state nationalism to multiculturalism -- Multiculturalism for national minorities: one size does not fit all -- Turkey's Kurdish dilemma: "segmented forms of assimilation" -- When multiculturalism does not fit: Kurds and Turkey in the 2000s -- Can multiculturalism really end ethnic conflicts? -- Conclusion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108667609
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Candea, Matei Comparison in anthropology
    DDC: 930.1
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    Keywords: Anthropology Comparative method ; Anthropology Methodology ; Anthropology ; Anthropology ; Anthropology ; Anthropology ; Comparative method ; Anthropology ; Methodology ; Kulturanthropologie ; Sozialanthropologie ; Ethnomethodologie ; Vergleich
    Abstract: "Anthropologists today use comparisons to describe and to explain, to generalise and to challenge generalisations, to critique and to create new concepts. In this multiplicity of often contradictory aims lie both the key challenge of anthropological comparison, and also its key strength. Matei Candea maps a path through that entangled conversation, providing a ground-up reassessment of the key conceptual issues at the heart of any form of anthropological comparison, whilst creating a bold charter for reconsidering the value of comparison in anthropology and beyond"--
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9781108304405
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
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    DDC: 302.23/0973
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    Keywords: Race relations and the press ; Racism in mass media ; Mass media and race relations ; Press and politics ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Massenmedien ; USA ; USA ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Massenmedien
    Abstract: Against conventional wisdom, pervasive black-white disparities pair with vitriolic public conversation in politically progressive communities throughout America. Networked News, Racial Divides examines obstacles to public dialogues about racial inequality and opportunities for better discourse in mid-sized, liberal cities. The book narrates the challenges faced when talking about race through a series of stories about each community struggling with K-12 education achievement gaps. Media expert Sue Robinson applies Bourdieusian field theory to understand media ecologies and analyze whose voices get heard and whose get left out. She explores how privilege shapes discourse and how identity politics can interfere with deliberation. Drawing on network analysis of community dialogues, interviews with journalists, politicians, activists, and citizens and deep case study of five cities, this reflexive and occasionally narrative book chronicles the institutional, cultural and other problematic realities to amplifying voices of all people while also recommending strategies to move forward and build trust
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  • 88
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108297721
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 171 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Montanaro, Laura Who elected Oxfam?
    DDC: 321.8
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    Keywords: Non-governmental organizations Political aspects ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Protest movements ; Representative government and representation ; Representative government and representation ; Protest movements ; Political participation ; Non-governmental organizations ; Political aspects ; Democracy ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Oxfam GB ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Demokratie ; Repräsentation
    Abstract: Non-elected actors, such as non-governmental organizations and celebrity activists, present themselves as representatives of others to audiences of decision-makers, such as state leaders, the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization. These actors are increasingly included in the deliberation and decision-making processes of such institutions. To take one well-known example, the non-governmental organization, Oxfam, presses decision-makers and governments for fair trade rules on behalf of the world's poor. What entitles such 'self-appointed representatives' to speak and act for the poor? As The Economist asked, 'Who elected Oxfam?'. Montanaro claims that such actors can, and should, be conceptualized as representatives, and that they can - though do not always - represent others in a manner that we can recognize as democratic. However, in order to do so, we must stretch our imaginations beyond the standard normative framework of elections
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  • 89
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108297615
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 309 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Global and international history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Louro, Michele L., 1977 - Comrades against imperialism
    DDC: 954.035
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    Keywords: Nehru, Jawaharlal ; Nehru, Jawaharlal ; 1889-1964 ; India ; Foreign relations ; 1919-1947 ; India ; Politics and government ; 1919-1947 ; Nehru, Jawaharlal 1889-1964 ; India ; India Foreign relations 1919-1947 ; India Politics and government 1919-1947 ; Nehru, Jawaharlal 1889-1964 ; Indien ; Antikolonialismus ; Völkerbund ; Internationalismus ; Nationalismus ; Antiimperialismus ; Geschichte 1919-1947
    Abstract: In this book Michele L. Louro compiles the debates, introduces the personalities, and reveals the ideas that seeded Jawaharlal Nehru's political vision for India and the wider world. Set between the world wars, this book argues that Nehru's politics reached beyond India in order to fulfill a greater vision of internationalism that was rooted in his experiences with anti-imperialist and anti-fascist mobilizations in the 1920s and 1930s. Using archival sources from India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and Russia, the author offers a compelling study of Nehru's internationalism as well as contributes a necessary interwar history of institutions and networks that were confronting imperialist, capitalist, and fascist hegemony in the twentieth-century world. Louro provides readers with a global intellectual history of anti-imperialism and Nehru's appropriation of it, while also establishing a history of a typically overlooked period
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    ISBN: 9781108241748
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 45
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    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Everton, Sean F. Networks and religion
    DDC: 204.2
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    Keywords: Interpersonal relations Religious aspects ; Social networks ; Social networks ; Interpersonal relations Religious aspects ; Interpersonal relations ; Religious aspects ; Social networks
    Abstract: Social scientists who study religion generally believe that social networks play a central role in religious life. However, most studies draw on measures that are relatively poor proxies for capturing the effects of social networks. This book illustrates how researchers can draw on formal social network analysis methods to explore the interplay of networks and religion. The book's introductory chapters provide overviews of the social scientific study of religion and social network analysis. The remaining chapters explore a variety of topics current in the social scientific study of religion, as well as introducing a variety of social network theories and methods, such as balance theory, ego-network analysis, exponential random graph models, and stochastic actor-oriented models. By embedding social network analysis within a social scientific study of religion framework, Networks and Religion offers an array of approaches for studying the role that social networks play in religious belief and practice
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9781108628167
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 276 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48/2
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    Keywords: International relations / Social aspects ; International relations / Philosophy ; Political sociology ; Politische Soziologie ; Weltgesellschaft ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Weltgesellschaft ; Politische Soziologie
    Abstract: This ambitious book provides a new framework for analysing global international society (GIS). In doing so, it also links the English School's approach more closely to classical sociology, constructivism, liberal institutionalism, realism and postcolonialism. It retells the expansion of international society story to explain why the differences among states are as important as their similarities in understanding the structure and dynamics of contemporary GIS. Drawing on differentiation theory, it sets out four ideal-type models for international society. These cover the 'like units' of the classical English School, as well as differentiation by geography, hierarchy/privilege, and function. These models offer a systematic way to integrate international and world society, and to understand the relationship between the deep structure of primary institutions, and the vast array of intergovernmental and international non-governmental organisations. In this pioneering book, Buzan and Schouenborg present the reader with the first systematic attempt to define criteria for assessing whether international society is becoming stronger or weaker
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Aug 2018) , Theorising international society -- The making of contemporary global international society: how do international societies grow/expand? -- The "like-units" model -- The regions/subglobal model -- The hierarchy/privilege model -- The functional differentiation model -- Aggregating the models: the complex differentiation of contemporary global international society
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9781316534663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 203/.8093
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ritual History ; Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric ; Play History ; Play Religious aspects ; Prehistoric peoples Social life and customs ; Ritual ; Evolution ; Spiel ; Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Religion ; Konferenzschrift 2017 ; Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Evolution ; Ritual ; Spiel ; Religion ; Ritual ; Religion ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The origins of religion and ritual in humans have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Play and ritual have many aspects in common, and ritual is a key component of the early cult practices that underlie the religious systems of societies in all parts of the world. This book examines the formative cults and the roots of religious practice from the earliest times until the development of early religion in the Near East, in China, in Peru, in Mesoamerica and beyond. Here, leading prehistorians, biologists, and other specialists bring a fresh approach to the early practices that underlie the faiths and religions of the world. They demonstrate the profound role of play ritual and belief systems and offer powerful new insights into the emergence of early societies
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  • 93
    ISBN: 9781108277792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 319 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: Fourth edition
    Parallel Title: Print version
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gender and elections
    DDC: 320.082/0973
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    Keywords: Women Political activity ; Women political candidates ; Sex role Political aspects ; Elections ; Voting ; Women ; Political activity ; United States ; Elections ; United States ; Voting ; United States ; Women political candidates ; United States ; Sex role ; Political aspects ; United States ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Frau ; Kandidatin ; Politisches Handeln ; Wahl
    Abstract: The fourth edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, multi-faceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2016 elections. This timely, yet enduring, volume strikes a balance between highlighting the most important development for women as voters and candidates in the 2016 elections and providing a more long-term, in-depth analysis of the ways in which gender has helped shape the contours and outcomes of electoral politics in the United States. Individual chapters demonstrate the importance of gender in understanding and interpreting presidential elections, voter participation and turnout, voting choices, congressional elections, the participation of African American women, the support of political parties and women's organizations, candidate communications with voters, and state elections. Without question, Gender and Elections is the most comprehensive, reliable, and trustworthy resource on the role of gender in electoral politics
    Abstract: Presidential elections: gendered space and the case of 2016 / Georgia Duerst-Lahti and Madison Oakley -- Disrupting masculine dominance? Women as presidential and vice presidential contenders / Kelly Dittmar -- Voter participation and turnout: the political generational divide among women deepens / Susan A. MacManus -- Voting choices: the significance of women voters and the gender gap / Susan J. Carroll -- Trumpeando Latinas/os: race, gender, immigration, and the role of Latinas/os / Anna Sampaio -- African American women and electoral politics: the core of the new American electorate / Wendy G. Smooth -- Congressional elections: women's candidacies and the road to gender parity / Richard L. Fox -- Political parties and women's organizations: bringing women into the electoral arena / Barbara Burrell -- Gender and communication on the campaign trail: media coverage, advertising, and online outreach / Dianne Bystrom -- Women's election to office in the fifty states: opportunities and challenges / Kira Sanbonmatsu
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  • 94
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108525633
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 167 pages)
    DDC: 577.55
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  • 95
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316659106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 200 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Akhtar, Aasim Sajjad, 1975 - The politics of common sense
    DDC: 954.91
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    Keywords: Patronage, Political ; Power (Social sciences) ; Power (Social sciences) ; Pakistan ; Patronage, Political ; Pakistan ; Pakistan ; Politics and government ; Pakistan ; Social conditions ; Pakistan ; History ; Pakistan Social conditions ; Pakistan History ; Pakistan Politics and government ; Pakistan ; Macht ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This work offers a refreshingly different perspective on Pakistan - it documents the evolution of Pakistan's structure of power over the past four decades. In particular, how the military dictatorship headed by General Zia ul Haq (1977-1988) - whose rule has been almost exclusively associated with a narrow agenda of Islamisation - transformed the political field through a combination of coercion and consent-production. The Zia regime inculcated within the society at large a 'common sense' privileging the cultivation of patronage ties and the concurrent demeaning of counter-hegemonic political practices which had threatened the structure of power in the decade before the military coup in 1977. The book meticulously demonstrates how the politics of common sense has been consolidated in the past three decades through the agency of emergent social forces such as traders and merchants as well as the religio-political organisations that gained in influence during the 1980s
    Abstract: Introduction -- The structure of power "from above" -- Accumulation in practice -- The many faces of Islam -- The nation that never became -- The subordinate classes: beyond common sense? -- Epilogue
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  • 96
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108553964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 217 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Meral, Ziya How violence shapes religion
    DDC: 201/.76332
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    Keywords: Christianity ; Islam ; Violence ; Violence ; Violence Religious aspects ; Religion ; Konflikt ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Gewalt ; Interreligiöser Dialog ; Christentum ; Islam ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Violence ; Religious aspects ; Violence ; Egypt ; Violence ; Nigeria ; Christianity ; Islam ; Nigeria ; Ägypten ; Ägypten ; Nigeria ; Religion ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Islam ; Christentum
    Abstract: Is there an inevitable global violent clash unfolding between the world's largest religions: Islam and Christianity? Do religions cause violent conflicts, or are there other factors at play? How can we make sense of increasing reports of violence between Christian and Muslim ethnic communities across the world? By seeking to answer such questions about the relationship between religion and violence in today's world, Ziya Meral challenges popular theories and offers an alternative explanation, grounded on insights inferred from real cases of ethno-religious violence in Africa and the Middle East. The relationship between religion and violence runs deep and both are intrinsic to the human story. Violence leads to and shapes religion, while religion acts to enable violence as well as providing responses that contain and prevent it. However, with religious violence being one of the most serious challenges facing the modern world, Meral shows that we need to de-globalise our analysis and focus on individual conflicts, instead of attempting to provide single answers to complex questions
    Abstract: Religious violence in Nigeria -- Religious violence in Egypt -- Comparative analysis of violence in Nigeria and Egypt -- Religion and violence in a global age
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  • 97
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108686518
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (76 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements
    Series Statement: Politics and society in Southeast Asia
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Davidson, Jamie Seth, 1971 - Indonesia
    DDC: 320.9598
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    Keywords: Democratization ; Democracy ; Politisches System ; Demokratie ; Demokratisierung ; Politischer Wandel ; Entwicklung ; Regierung ; Politische Ökonomie ; Planwirtschaft ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Tendenz ; Democratization ; Indonesia ; Democracy ; Indonesia ; Indonesia ; Politics and government ; 1998- ; Indonesia ; Economic conditions ; 1998- ; Indonesia Economic conditions 1998- ; Indonesia Politics and government 1998- ; Indonesien ; Indonesien ; Politischer Wandel ; Demokratisierung ; Geschichte 1998-2018
    Abstract: This Element argues that after twenty years of democratization, Indonesia has performed admirably. This is especially so when the country's accomplishments are placed in comparative perspective. However, as we analytically focus more closely to inspect Indonesia's political regime, political economy, and how identity-based mobilizations have emerged, it is clear that Indonesia still has many challenges to overcome, some so pressing that they could potentially erode or reverse many of the democratic gains the country has achieved since its former authoritarian ruler, Soeharto, was forced to resign in 1998
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9781108553599
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 277 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Baumgartner, Frank R., 1958 - Suspect citizens
    DDC: 363.23089/00973
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    Keywords: Racial profiling in law enforcement ; Discrimination in law enforcement ; Racial profiling in law enforcement ; United States ; Discrimination in law enforcement ; United States ; USA ; Strafjustiz ; Täterprofil ; Rassendiskriminierung ; USA ; Strafjustiz ; Täterprofil ; Rassendiskriminierung
    Abstract: Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies made it clear that very large numbers of police stops would have to occur before an officer might interdict a significant drug shipment. Unstated in that calculation was that many Americans would be subjected to police investigations so that a small number of high-level offenders might be found. The key element in this strategy, which kept it hidden from widespread public scrutiny, was that middle-class white Americans were largely exempt from its consequences. Tracking these police practices down to the officer level, Suspect Citizens documents the extreme rarity of drug busts and reveals sustained and troubling disparities in how racial groups are treated
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  • 99
    ISBN: 9781108567404
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bukodi, Erzsébet Social mobility and education in Britain
    DDC: 305.5130941
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    Keywords: Social mobility ; Education ; Education ; Education ; Education ; Social mobility ; Social mobility ; Social mobility ; Great Britain ; Soziale Mobilität ; Bildung ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Building upon extensive research into modern British society, this book traces out trends in social mobility and their relation to educational inequalities, with surprising results. Contrary to what is widely supposed, Bukodi and Goldthorpe's findings show there has been no overall decline in social mobility - though downward mobility is tending to rise and upward mobility to fall - and Britain is not a distinctively low mobility society. However, the inequalities of mobility chances among individuals, in relation to their social origins, have not been reduced and remain in some respects extreme. Exposing the widespread misconceptions that prevail in political and policy circles, this book shows that educational policy alone cannot break the link between inequality of condition and inequality of opportunity. It will appeal to students, researchers, policy makers, and anyone interested in the issues surrounding social inequality, social mobility and education
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  • 100
    ISBN: 9781108233231
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 457 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 342.68
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    Keywords: South Africa ; Equality before the law ; Civil rights ; Constitutional law ; South Africa Economic policy ; South Africa Politics and government ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The 1996 South African Constitution was promulgated on 18th December 1996 and came into effect on 4th February 1997. Its aspirational provisions promised to transform South Africa's economy and society along non-racial and egalitarian lines. Following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment, this book, co-edited by Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux, examines the triumphs and disappointments of the Constitution. It explains the arguments in favor of the Constitution being replaced with a more authentically African document, untainted by the necessity to compromise with ruling interests predominant at the end of apartheid. Others believe it remains a landmark attempt to create a society based on social, economic, and political rights for all citizens, and that its true implementation has yet to be achieved. This volume considers whether the problems South Africa now faces are of constitutional design or implementation, and analyses the Constitution's external influence on constitutionalism in other parts of the world
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux; 2. Mission in progress: towards an assessment of South Africa's Constitution at 20 Catherine O'Regan; 3. The performance of socio-economic rights in the South African Constitution David Bilchitz; 4. Proceduralism's promise: the Constitutional Court, social and economic rights and democracy Steven Friedman; 5. Corruption, the rule of law and the role of independent institutions Heinz Klug; 6. Violence against women in South Africa: constitutional responses and opportunities Beth Goldblatt; 7. Toward reparative transformation: revisiting the impact of violence against women in a post-TRC South Africa Andrea Durbach; 8. The constitutional goal of transforming education: the South African Constitutional Court in comparative perspective Julie C. Suk; 9. Race, inclusiveness and transformation of legal education in South Africa Penelope Andrews; 10. The contribution of the South African Constitution to Kenya's Constitution Jill Cottrell Ghai and Yash Ghai; 11. Multi-Stage constitution-making: from South Africa to Chile? Joel Colon-Rios; 12. A cure for coups: the South African influence on Fijian constitutionalism Coel Kirkby; 13. Policing democracy: the influence of South Africa's post-Apartheid security arrangements on police oversight under Kenya's 2010 Constitution Richard Stacey; 14. The diffusion of South African-style institutions? A study in comparative constitutionalism Charles Manga Fombad; 15. Constitutionalism, legitimacy, and public order : a South African case study Aziz Z. Huq; 16. South African social rights jurisprudence and the global canon: a revisionist view David Landau
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