Автор: Chase-Dunn, Christopher K., Название: Global struggles and social change : ISBN: 1421438623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421438627 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 27990.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Deftly demonstrates how the rise and fall of social movements throughout history is closely linked to economic and political developments.
In the early decades of the twenty-first century, an international movement to slow the pace of climate change mushroomed across the globe. The self-proclaimed Climate Justice movement urges immediate action to reduce carbon emissions and calls for the adoption of bold new policies to address global warming before irreversible and catastrophic damage threatens the habitability of the planet. On another front, since the 1980s, multiple waves of resistance have occurred around the world against the uneven transition from state-led development to the neoliberal globalization project. Both Climate Justice and Anti-Austerity movements represent the urgency of understanding how global change affects the ability of citizens around the world to mobilize and protect themselves from planetary warming and the loss of social protections granted in earlier eras.
In Global Struggles and Social Change, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Paul Almeida explore how global change stimulates the formation and shape of such movements. Contending that large-scale economic shifts condition the pattern of social movement mobilizations around the world, the authors trace these trends back to premodern societies, revealing how severe disruptions of indigenous communities led to innovative collective actions throughout history. Drawing on historical case studies, world system and protest event analysis, and social networks, they also examine the influence of global change processes on local, national, and transnational social movements and explain how in turn these movements shape institutional shifts.
Touching on hot-button topics, including global warming, immigrant rights protests, the rise of right-wing populism, and the 2008 financial crisis, the book also explores a broad range of premodern social movements from indigenous people in the Americas, Mesopotamia, and China. The authors pay special attention to periods of disruption and external threats, as well as the role of elites, emotions, charisma, and religion or spirituality in shaping protest movements. Providing sweeping coverage, Global Struggles and Social Change is perfect for students and anyone interested in globalization, international and comparative politics, political sociology, and communication studies.
Автор: Powell Dana E. Название: Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation ISBN: 082236994X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822369943 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 24200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and contemporary energy development on Navajo (Diné) Nation land. Powell's historical and ethnographic account shows how the coal-fired power plant project's defeat provided the basis for redefining the legacies of colonialism, mineral extraction, and environmentalism. Examining the labor of activists, artists, politicians, elders, technicians, and others, Powell emphasizes the generative potential of Navajo resistance to articulate a vision of autonomy in the face of twenty-first-century colonial conditions. Ultimately, Powell situates local Navajo struggles over energy technology and infrastructure within broader sociocultural life, debates over global climate change, and tribal, federal, and global politics of extraction.
Автор: Massengill Rebekah Peeples Название: Wal-Mart Wars ISBN: 0814763340 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814763346 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 29730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Wal-Mart is America’s largest retailer. The national chain of stores is a powerful stand-in of both the promise and perils of free market capitalism. Yet it is also often the target of public outcry for its labor practices, to say nothing of class-action lawsuits, and a central symbol in America’s increasingly polarized political discourse over consumption, capitalism and government regulations. In many ways the battle over Wal-Mart is the battle between “Main Street” and “Wall Street” as the fate of workers under globalization and the ability of the private market to effectively distribute precious goods like health care take center stage. In Wal-Mart Wars, Rebekah Massengill shows that the economic debates are not about dollars and cents, but instead represent a conflict over the deployment of deeper symbolic ideas about freedom, community, family, and citizenship. Wal-Mart Wars argues that the family is not just a culture wars issue to be debated with regard to same-sex marriage or the limits of abortion rights; rather, the family is also an idea that shapes the ways in which both conservative and progressive activists talk about economic issues, and in the process, construct different moral frameworks for evaluating capitalism and its most troubling inequalities. With particular attention to political activism and the role of big business to the overall economy, Massengill shows that the fight over the practices of this multi-billion dollar corporation can provide us with important insight into the dreams and realities of American capitalism.
Автор: Coulmas Florian Название: Guardians of Language ISBN: 0198736525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198736523 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 63360.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides an accessible account of the origins and conceptual foundations of language policy. Florian Coulmas discusses the influence of twenty intellectuals from medieval to modern times, and from a variety of cultures, who have taken issue with language, its use, development, and political potential.
Автор: Kaur Ravinder Название: Brand New Nation: India in the Global Economy ISBN: 1503612597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503612594 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
The first book that examines India's mega-publicity campaigns to theorize the global transformation of the nation-state into an attractive investment destination.
The early twenty-first century was an optimistic moment of global futures-making. The chief narrative was the emergence of the BRICS nations—leading stars in the great spectacle of capitalist growth stories, branded afresh as resource-rich hubs of untapped talent and potential, and newly opened up for foreign investments. The old third-world nations were rapidly embracing the script of unbridled capitalism in the hope of arriving on the world stage. If the tantalizing promise of economic growth invited entrepreneurs to invest in the nation's exciting futures, it offered utopian visions of "good times," and even restoration of lost national glory, to the nation's citizens. Brand New Nation reaches into the past and, inevitably, the future of this phenomenon as well as the fundamental shifts it has wrought in our understanding of the nation-state. It reveals the on-the-ground experience of the relentless transformation of the nation-state into an "attractive investment destination" for global capital.
As Ravinder Kaur provocatively argues, the brand new nation is not a mere nineteenth century re-run. It has come alive as a unified enclosure of capitalist growth and nationalist desire in the twenty-first century. Today, to be deemed an attractive nation-brand in the global economy is to be affirmed as a proper nation. The infusion of capital not only rejuvenates the nation; it also produces investment-fueled nationalism, a populist energy that can be turned into a powerful instrument of coercion. Grounded in the history of modern India, the book reveals the close kinship among identity economy and identity politics, publicity and populism, and violence and economic growth rapidly rearranging the liberal political order the world over.
Автор: Kyung Hyun Kim Название: Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 1478014490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478014492 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 24200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu's adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture has upended the familiar dynamic of major-to-minor cultural influence, enabling hallyu to become a dominant global cultural phenomenon. At the same time, its worldwide popularity has rendered its Koreanness opaque. Kim argues that Korean cultural subjectivity over the past two decades is one steeped in ethnic rather than national identity. Explaining how South Korea leaped over the linguistic and cultural walls surrounding a supposedly “minor” culture to achieve global ascendance, Kim positions K-pop, Korean cinema and television serials, and even electronics as transformative acts of reappropriation that have created a hegemonic global ethnic identity.
Автор: Raju Adluri Subramanyam Название: South Asia and China: Engagement in the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 0367704242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367704247 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 43890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book brings together new perspectives on China`s engagement with South Asian countries. It examines emerging trends in the ties between China and South Asia in the geo-political, geo-strategic and geo-economics context and looks at opportunities for collaboration and connectivity between them.
Автор: Bernhard, Michael; Kubik, Jan Название: Twenty Years After Communism: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration ISBN: 0199375143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199375141 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 37480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Twenty Years After Communism is concerned with the explosion of a politics of memory triggered by the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe, and it takes a comparative look at the ways that communism and its demise have been commemorated (or not commemorated) by major political actors across the region.
Автор: Jeffries, Ian. Название: The Caucasus and Central Asian republics at the turn of the twenty-first century ISBN: 0415325927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415325929 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 193950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The author presents a clear, detailed and accessible breakdown of the developments in the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Автор: Shin Название: Korean History in Maps ISBN: 1107490235 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107490239 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A beautifully presented atlas covering all periods of Korean history. Detailed maps are complemented by chronologies, lists of monarchs, and overviews of the political, economic, social and cultural systems for each era discussed. Assorted full-color images of artifacts, paintings, and architectural structures complete this unique reference work.
Автор: Michael D. Shin Название: Korean History in Maps ISBN: 1107098467 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107098466 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 82370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A beautifully presented atlas covering all periods of Korean history. Detailed maps are complemented by chronologies, lists of monarchs, and overviews of the political, economic, social and cultural systems for each era discussed. Assorted full-color images of artifacts, paintings, and architectural structures complete this unique reference work.
Автор: Tiersky Ronald, Jones Erik Название: Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction ISBN: 1442221100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442221109 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 97150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Pedro Chirino entered the Society of Jesus in February 1580 and arrived in the Philippines in June 1590. He was one of the pioneers of the Philippine Jesuit Mission who started and consolidated the Jesuit apostolate in the Philippines. This work is the first history, not just of the Jesuit missions, but also of the Catholic missions in the Philippines, and served as the source for later histories.
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