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Peripheral Visions - Publics, Power, And Performance In Yemen

by Lisa Wedeen

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 The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral Visions shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions. Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak states tends to arise not from attachments to institutions but through both extraordinary events and the ordinary activities of everyday life. Yemenis, for example, regularly gather to chew qat, a leafy drug similar to caffeine, as they engage in wide-ranging and sometimes influential public discussions of even the most divisive political and social issues. These lively debates exemplify Wedeen's contention that democratic, national, and pious solidarities work as ongoing, performative practices that enact and reproduce a citizenry's shared points of reference. Ultimately, her skillful evocations of such practices shift attention away from a narrow focus on government institutions and electoral competition and toward the substantive experience of participatory politics.
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Devil'S Handwriting - Precoloniality And The German Colonial State In Qingdao, Samoa, And Southwest Africa

by George Steinmetz

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 Germany's overseas colonial empire was relatively short-lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During this period, dramatically different policies were enacted in the colonies. Why did the same colonizing power act in such differing ways? This work tackles this question through a cross-cultural analysis of German colonialism.
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Bewitching Development - Witchcraft And The Reinvention Of Development In Neoliberal Kenya

by James Howard Smith

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 Presents an account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft.
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Parite! - Sexual Equality And The Crisis Of French Universalism

by Joan Wallach Scott

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 France is in the throes of a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In this book, the author shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics.
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Producing India - From Colonial Economy To National Space

by Manu Goswami

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 When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment. Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and Asian studies.
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Neoliberal Frontiers - An Ethnography Of Sovereignty In West Africa

by Brenda Chalfin

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 In Neoliberal Frontiers, Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty. From the revealing vantage point of the Customs office, Chalfin discovers a fascinating inversion of our assumptions about neoliberal transformation: bureaucrats and local functionaries, government offices, checkpoints, and registries are typically held to be the targets of reform, but Chalfin finds that these figures and sites of authority act as the engine for changes in state sovereignty. Ghana has served as a model of reform for the neoliberal establishment, making it an ideal site for Chalfin to explore why the restructuring of a state on the global periphery portends shifts that occur in all corners of the world. At once a foray into international political economy, politics, and political anthropology, Neoliberal Frontiers is an innovative interdisciplinary leap forward for ethnographic writing, as well as an eloquent addition to the literature on postcolonial Africa.
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Inclusion Â€“ The Politics Of Difference In Medical Research

by Steven Epstein

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 Argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.
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Logics Of History - Social Theory And Social Transformation

by William H. Sewell Jr.

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 In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.
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The Bedtrick - Tales Of Sex And Masquerade

by Wendy Doniger

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 Brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the items in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people get into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands.
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American Value - Migrants, Money, And Meaning In El Salvador And The United States

by David Pedersen

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 El Salvador emerged from a brutal civil war in 1992 to find much of its national income coming from a massive emigrant workforce that earns money in the US. This book examines this new way of life as it extends across two places: Intipuca, a Salvadoran town, and the Washington, DC, home to the second largest population Salvadorans in the US.
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The Cult Of Creativity - A Surprisingly Recent History

by Samuel W. Franklin

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Disalienation - Politics, Philosophy, And Radical Psychiatry In Postwar France

by Camille Robcis

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Parite! - Sexual Equality And The Crisis Of French Universalism

by Joan Wallach Scott

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 France is in the throes of a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In this book, the author shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics.
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Curators Of The Buddha - The Study Of Buddhism Under Colonialism

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 A critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West, incorporating insights of colonial and post-colonial cultural studies. Social, political and cultural conditions that have shaped the course of Buddhist studies are discussed.
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Producing India - From Colonial Economy To National Space

by Manu Goswami

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 When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has.
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A Thousand Screenplays - The French Imagination In A Time Of Crisis

by Sabine Chalvon-Demersay

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 In 1991, French public television held an amateur screenwriting contest. Although the contestants wrote about life in France, their concerns and struggles held a distinctly universal ring. Sabine Chalvon-Demersay offers a clear, if still developing, photograph of the contemporary imagination.
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Oppenheimer - The Tragic Intellect

by Charles Thorpe

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 At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. This title traces the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity.
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Routine Crisis - An Ethnography Of Disillusion

by Sarah Muir

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Justice Is An Option - A Democratic Theory Of Finance For The Twenty-First Century

by Robert Meister

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Capitalism And The Emergence Of Civic Equality In Eighteenth-Century France

by William H. Sewell Jr.

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Authoritarian Apprehensions - Ideology, Judgment, And Mourning In Syria

by Lisa Wedeen

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Capitalism And The Emergence Of Civic Equality In Eighteenth-Century France

by William H. Sewell Jr.

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Routine Crisis - An Ethnography Of Disillusion

by Sarah Muir

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Disalienation - Politics, Philosophy, And Radical Psychiatry In Postwar France

by Camille Robcis

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