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Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination ...

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University of Nebraska Press, 2005

Finally, an collection of Indigenous writings on sovereignty
Evo Morales is elected the first Ingigenous president of Bolivia and the Indigenous people's movement of Mexico is on the march. Around the world activists and movement intellectuals have been making history by moving Indigenous peoples' struggles to the forefront of grass-roots politics. Accompanying these developments has been a lively and challenging discussion about Sovereignty in ...

Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, Power and Contestation

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

As market economic systems extend over southeast Asia, the debate over what role the state should play and what political regime is necessary for economic growth is hotly contested. This revised and updated text examines the political economy of specific countries in the region and follows with a thematic and comparative analysis of key issues.

Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability
Brian Wampler

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007

As Brazil and other countries in Latin America turned away from their authoritarian past and began the transition to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s, interest in developing new institutions to bring the benefits of democracy to the citizens in the lower socioeconomic strata intensified, and a number of experiments were undertaken. Perhaps the one receiving the most attention has been Participatory Budgeting (PB), first launched in the southern ...

Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

Zed Books, 2007

The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily in recent years. This book examines how the arguments of feminist researchers have often become depoliticised by development institutions and offers richly contextualised accounts of the pitfalls and compromises of the politics of engagement. Speaking from within academic institutions, social movements, development bureaucracies and national and ...

Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations (Oxford Political Theory)
John S. Dryzek

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

In this ground-breaking study, John Dryzek argues that democratic theory is now dominated by a deliberative approach. As one of those responsible for this turn, John Dryzek now takes issue with the direction it has taken. Discussing the models of democracy advocated by both friends and critics of the deliberative approach, Dryzek shows that democracy should be critical of established power, transitional in extending beyond national boundaries, ...

The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory
Matthew T. Kapstein

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.

Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Marc Howard Ross

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Ethnic conflict often focuses on culturally charged symbols and rituals that evoke strong emotions from all sides. Marc Howard Ross examines battles over diverse cultural expressions, including Islamic headscarves in France, parades in Northern Ireland, holy sites in Jerusalem and Confederate flags in the American South to propose a psychocultural framework for understanding ethnic conflict, as well as barriers to, and opportunities for, its ...

"The Beautiful Language of My Century": Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968 ...
Tom McDonough

The MIT Press, 2007

In postwar France, the aesthetics of appropriation and collage gave cultural form to a struggle over meaning. A new wave of avant-garde experimentation used?or stole, plagiarized, and expropriated?elements from advertising, journalism, literature, art, and other sources of common discourse (the ironically named "beautiful language" of this book's title, itself an appropriation from Guy Debord's collaged Mémoires ). Redeployed, often in ...

The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture (Contestations)

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George Kateb

Cornell University Press, 1994

Thought-provoking, uplifting--a wonderful book
This really is a terrific book. It's in essay form, each one building on Kateb's theme of "democractic individualism." The democratic individual is not isolated, anomic, shut off from the rest of the world. The democratic individual is granted the respect and space for development due all persons, but also realizes her or his connectedness to all other persons. For Kateb, individuals are ...

Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Contestations)

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Bonnie Honig

Cornell University Press, 1993

An important book whose author was denied tenure by Harvard
As the 1997-8 academic year starts, Bonnie Honig is no longer at Harvard. She is now a tenured professor of political theory at Northwestern University. This is the sad end of a story that made national headlines in the spring of 1997: Despite being recommended by both her department and an external review board, Harvard's President, Neil Rudenstine, decided not to extend Assosicate Profeesor ...

Paul Ricoeur and Narrative: Context and Contestation

Univ of Calgary Pr, 1997

Paul Ricoeur's theory of narrative has implications for a wide spectrum of contemporary thought. This collection of essays explores many of the areas to which his narrative strategies can be fruitfully applied, including architecture, psychology, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, ethics, sociology, medieval and contemporary literature, and religious studies. The book provides an introduction to the creative and productive resources of Ricoeur's ...

History and Theory: Feminist Research, Debates, Contestations

University of Chicago Press Journals, 1997

This volume of recent Signs articles offers a number of significant contributions to feminist debates on history and theory. It illustrates the uses of theories in recent feminist historical research and the often contentious arguments that surround them. The readings are organized into three sections. The first draws on the tradition of political economy, and discusses the importance of class relations for understanding historical events and ...

Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)

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Princeton University Press, 2004

this is a great read
This book is an excellent resource for students, academics, or anyone interested in Muslim world politics. It really highlights the nuances in the political systems of these nations and the key political issues. Chapters on Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey are especially noteworthy. These chapters show where democratic political reforms are progressing and where they still have work to be done, ...

The Power of Contestation: Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

One of the first French intellectuals to take a systematic interest in questions of language and meaning, Maurice Blanchot (1907--2003) substantially influenced such thinkers as Deleuze, Foucault, Barthes, Levinas, and Derrida. Until recently, Blanchot's work remained largely unknown outside France, in part because of its complexity and in part because Blanchot shunned intellectual celebrity. Over the past decade, however, nearly all of ...

Rethinking Generosity: Critical Theory and the Politics of Caritas (Contestations)
Romand Coles

Cornell University Press, 1997

Romand Coles explores how we might understand and motivate generosity in a world in which no theological or secular position can claim absolute privilege for itself. He argues that unless our generosity is fashioned in the context of a radical receptivity, we tend to undermine our best aspirations. In the agonistic dialogic character of human beings, Coles argues, is a practice of receptive generosity, an openness to the specific being and ...

Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics: A Special Issue of International Organization

1 review

The MIT Press, 1999

outstanding collection of essays by top IR/IPE theorists
Top-notch collection of essays that stand the test of time. Ranges from economist Barry Eichengreen's "Dental hygiene and nuclear war: how international relations looks from economics," to Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink (of "Activists beyond Borders" fame) on "International norm dynamics and political change", to Robert Jervis' classic overview of "Realism in the study of world ...

Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern: Maimonides to Nietzsche (Contestations)

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Aryeh Botwinick

Cornell University Press, 1997

Brilliant
This book is reflects the thought of a prfound intellect who is a radical sceptic and at the same time deeply religious. In this work Botwinick demonstates how these two seemingly opposing world views are in fact complementary. Not only that, but that both faith and sceptism have been at the heart of Western thought from the Old Testement to the the Modern age. Botwinick concludes that ...

Power and Contestation: India since 1989 (Global History of the Present)
Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam

Zed Books, 2007

This book is the ideal introduction to India?s complex internal histories and external power relations since 1989, a date which marks the unraveling of India's post-independence "Nehruvian Consensus" around the idea of a self-reliant modern, secular state. While global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, it has also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older ...

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