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War, Survival Units, and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Processual-Relational PerspectiveIn this ground-breaking book, the author proposes a new theory of state formation based upon a rethinking of the nexus war, state, and citizenship. He seeks to move beyond explanations provided by traditional approaches by discussing and presenting alternative state-society and state theories, arguing...
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Women with Disabilities as Agents of Peace, Change and Rights: Experiences from Sri LankaDrawing on rich empirical work emerging from core conflict regions within the island nation of Sri Lanka, this book illustrates the critical role that women with disabilities play in post-armed conflict rebuilding and development.This pathbreaking book shows the critical role that women with disabilities...
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Stupidity in Politics: Its Unavoidability and PotentialStupidity permeates our perception and practice of politics. We frequently accuse politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, voters, "elites," and "the masses" for their stupidities. In fact, it is not only "populist politicians," "sensational journalism," and "uneducated voters" who are accused of stupidity. Similar accusations can be,...
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Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: A Transformative Vision for Human Well-BeingWell-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies. In its reliance on a truncated account of well-being based implicitly on neoclassical economic assumptions, however, the field is deeply flawed....
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Peace and Rural Development in Colombia: The Window for Distributive Change in Negotiated TransitionsIn Peace and Rural Development in Colombia Andrés García Trujillo investigates whether peace agreements geared toward terminating internal armed conflicts trigger rural distributive changes.Combining academic rigor with an insider's perspective, García Trujillo shows that the peace agreement in Colombia opened an exceptional window for...
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Disability and Citizenship StudiesFocusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality. Bringing together disability and citizenship studies, it explores an original...
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Finance and the Real Economy: China and the West Since the Asian Financial CrisisThe different approach taken by China and the West towards finance and the real economy rests upon philosophical foundations that have diverged fundamentally since the Ancient World. Since the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997-98 a tremendous transformation has taken place in the financial systems...
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Prisons and Community Corrections: Critical Issues and Emerging ControversiesThis edited collection brings together leading international academics and researchers to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs the future of prison and wider corrective services training, education, research, policy and practice. This volume addresses a range of 21st century issues faced by...
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Reborn of Crisis: 9/11 and the Resurgent SuperheroThis book examines the dominant popular culture convention of the superhero, situated within the most significant global event of the last 20 years. Exploring the explosion of the superhero genre post-9/11, it sheds fresh light on the manner in which American society has processed...
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Eisaku Sato, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72: Okinawa, Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Nobel PrizeThis book is a biography of Eisaku Satō (1901-75), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The book focuses on Satō's management of Japan's relations with the United States...
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Uzbekistan's International RelationsThis book examines the development of Uzbekistan's international relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Author: Oybek MadiyevPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 04/29/2022Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54dISBN: 9780367521516This title is not returnable
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Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines: Emergent Socialities and the Governing of PrecarityThe contributors to this volume examine the actual workings and on-the-ground effects of contemporary political economic shifts in the Global South, and implications for reconfiguring social networks, conceptions and practices of governance, and burgeoning social movements. How do various groups in the Global South...
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Living in the Margins in Mainland China, Hong Kong and IndiaWith a range of case studies from Asia, this book sheds light on empirical realizations of marginality in a globalized context using first-hand original research. In the late 2000s, the financial crisis witnessed the fragility of high levels of market integration and the vulnerability...
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Anxiety and Lucidity: Reflections on Culture in Times of UnrestThis book explores the nature of modern culture as a culture of anxiety, analyzing the modes in which such anxiety presents itself. Drawing on sociological and philosophical concepts of modernity, the author builds on the work of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud to offer an...
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Mobile Citizenship: Spatial Privilege and the Transnational Lifestyles of Senior CitizensMobile Citizenship addresses the crucial question of how mobility reconfigures citizenship. Engaging with debates on transnationalism, citizenship, and lifestyle migration, the book draws on ethnographic research and interview material collected among retired lifestyle migrants moving south from Germany to Turkey to explore the practices...
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Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His ContemporariesThis book explores how one early medieval poet survived and thrived amidst the political turbulence of sixth century Gaul--with a little help from his friends. Born in northern Italy, Venantius Fortunatus made his career writing for and about members of the Merovingian elite. Although...
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The Lost Keys of Freemasonry: The Legend of Hiram AbiffMr. Hall, himself an honorary 33x Mason, reveals the profounder aspects of this ancient Fraternity which has been a source of inspiration to so many individuals through the centuries. The basic symbolism of the three degrees of the Blue Lodge is explained. The text...
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Concepts: A TravelogueConcepts seem to work best when created in that interspace between theory and praxis, between philosophy, art, and science. Deleuze himself has generated many concepts in this encounter between philosophy and non-philosophy (art, literature, film, botany, etc): his ideas of affects and percepts, of...
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Material Game Studies: A Philosophy of Analogue PlayThis is the first volume to apply insights from the material turn in philosophy to the study of play and games. At a time of renewed interest in analogue gaming, as scholars are looking beyond the digital and virtual for the first time since...
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Work, Women and the Labour MarketOriginally published in 1982, Work, Women and the Labour Market presents through original articles a coherent overall picture of women's employment in contemporary British capitalism. For the first time it brings together concrete studies which show graphically how women's unequal position at work is...
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