Political Science
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Inhabiting the Earth: Anarchist Political Ecology for Landscapes of EmancipationOver the last several decades, scholars and practitioners have progressively acknowledged that we cannot consider cities as the place where nature stops anymore, resulting in urban environments being increasingly appreciated and theorized as hybrids between nature and culture, entities made of socio-ecological processes in...
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Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946For the past two decades, insights gained from the burgeoning field of borderlands studies have enabled a new generation of scholars to challenge popular depictions of the emergence of the modern Middle East. For them, the region's borderlands were not just mere sites of...
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A Political Theory of Muslim DemocracyRavza Altuntaş-Çakır examines the ideals, institutions and processes that shape the development of a concrete Muslim-based democratic system - a form of democracy that recognises the centrality of religion in Muslim societies. Questioning the customary characterisations of Islam's compatibility with democracy, the book adopts...
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The Politics of Muslim Identities in AsiaApproaching religious identity with an emphasis on agency and contestation, this book offers a historical perspective on the development of Muslim identities in Asia. It examines the contingent politics that influence how Muslims constitute themselves as modern subjects. Through 9 country-based case studies, the...
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The Broken Years: Russia's Disabled War Veterans, 1904-1921The Broken Years tells the forgotten story of Russia's disabled ex-servicemen through three wars and three revolutions: the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Civil War and the First World War. Using extensive archival material from national, regional and town archives, Alexandre Sumpf explores the treatment...
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The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle ClassA devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller', this extraordinarily original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian consequences. It is the first study systematically to link the genesis of the 'bourgeoisie-cum-middle class' - Imperial, Soviet, and...
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Political Science and the Problem of Social OrderThe problem of social order is the question of what holds complex and diverse societies together. Today, this question has become increasingly urgent in the world. Yet our ability to ask and answer the question in a helpful way is constrained by the intellectual...
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Crime, Violence and Modernity: Connecting Classical and Contemporary Practice in Sociological CriminologyThis book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of comparative and historical sociology. Throughout the book Hughes challenges the long-standing division of labour in criminology and sociology more...
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World Heritage Craze in China: Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local MemoryThere is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking recognition from UNESCO. This book explores three dimensions of the UNESCO World Heritage initiative with particular relevance for China: the universal agenda,...
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Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of NationalismThe "bulwark" or antemurale myth--whereby a region is imagined as a defensive barrier against a dangerous Other--has been a persistent strand in the development of Eastern European nationalisms. While historical studies of the topic have typically focused on clashes and overlaps between sociocultural and...
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Illicit Tactical Progress: Mexican Cartel Tactical Notes 2013-2020This book is an eye-opener that may be an appalling representation of current events in Mexico, but it is based on factual reports of the strength, manner, and frequency of the cartel violence that occurs every day in Mexico. ... As long as the...
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In Their Own Words, Volume 2, The Middle Colonies: Today's God-less America ... What Would Our Founding Fathers Think?What has happened to America? It's no longer the country of our founding. Why? In a word . . . we've lost God. Our Founding Fathers established one nation under God. They declared that our rights came from God. They appealed to the Creator,...
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The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying FutureThe prescient book that first linked specific weather disasters with man-made global warming . . . now in its second edition."The most readable and intelligent summary of global warming science and politics I have read... a valiant effort to make people actually care about...
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Shakespeare's Influence on Karl Marx: The Shakespearean Roots of MarxismThis volume presents a close reading of instances of Shakespearean quotations, allusions, imagery and rhetoric found in Karl Marx's collected works and letters, which provides evidence that Shakespeare's writings exerted a formative influence on Marx and the development of his work. Through a methodology...
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El Futuro Post-Covid Expuesto: El Gran Reset, Reconstruir Mejor y el Colapso Económico Total - Agenda 2021 - 2030 - Control de la población - ¿FuturoEste libro expone la agenda de las élites globales y el próximo reseteo de la civilización humana.Rebel Press Media profundiza en la verdad no contada sobre cómo los principales medios de comunicación se han vendido y siguen mintiendo sobre lo que realmente está pasando...Conectando...
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Sensing In/Security: Sensors as Transnational Security InfrastructuresSensing In/Security investigates how sensors and sensing practices enact regimes of security and insecurity. It extends long-standing concerns with infrastructuring to emergent modes of surveillance and control by exploring how digitally networked sensors shape securitisation practices.Contributions in this volume examine how sensing devices gain...
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Horizon of (Im)Possibilities: A Chronicle of Brazil's Conservative TurnThe first volume in English to analyze the impact of recent political phenomena in Brazil, from the rise of Bolsonaro to the climate crisis. Since the shocking 2018 presidential election in Brazil, a growing body of scholarship has attempted to understand the country's so-called...
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New Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War: No Victor, No VanquishedNew Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War: No Victor, No Vanquished analyzes the continued impact of the Nigeria-Biafra war on the Igbo, the failure of the reconstruction and reconciliation effort in the post-war period, and the politics of exclusion of the memory of the war...
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Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: Disaster, Vulnerability & ResiliencyWith its 155 mile-per-hour sustained windspeeds, the near-Category 5 Hurricane Maria brought catastrophic devastation and destruction as it diagonally crossed the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from the southeast to the northwest on September 20, 2017. The official death toll estimate of 2,975 lost lives...
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Georgia's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Challenges for a Small StateThe South Caucasus is the key strategic region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea and the regional powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia and is the land bridge between Asia and Europe with vital hydrocarbon routes to international markets. This volume examines the...
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