Deconstructing The Nation

Author : Maxim Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134949441

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Deconstructing the Nation examines the connection between racism and the development of the nation-state in modern France. The author raises important questions about the nature of citizenship rights in modern French society and contributes to wider European debates on citizenship. By challenging the myths of the modern French nation Maxim Silverman opens up the debate on questions of immigration, racism, the nation and citizenship in France to non-French speaking readers. Until quite recently these matters have largely been ignored by researchers in Britain and the USA. However, European integration has made it essential to look beyond national frontiers. The major part of his analysis concerns the period from the end of the 1960s to the beginning of the 1990s. Yet contemporary developments are placed in a historical context: first through a consideration of the construction of the modern question of immigration since the second half of the nineteenth century, and second through a survey of political, economic and social developments since 1945. There are analyses of the major debates on nationality in 1987 and the headscarf' affair of 1989. Finally questions of immigration, racism and citizenship are considered within the framework of European integration.

Author : Vic Satzewich,University of Saskatchewan. Department of Sociology. Social Research Unit
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1895686075

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Deconstructing a Nation by Vic Satzewich,University of Saskatchewan. Department of Sociology. Social Research Unit Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1895868076

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Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415556699

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Deconstructing International Politics by Michael Dillon Pdf

This book is the first full-length manuscript to draw on the the insights and techniques of deconstruction to analyse international relations. Influenced primarily by Derrida, it critiques the cornerstones of international relations such as modernity, the state, the subject, security and ethics and justice.

Author : Jonathan Ervine
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780708325971

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Cinema and the Republic by Jonathan Ervine Pdf

This book analyses contemporary French films by focussing closely on cinematic representations of immigrants and residents of suburban housing estates known as banlieues. It begins by examining how these groups are conceived of within France's Republican political model before analysing films that focus on four key issues. Firstly, it will assess representations of undocumented migrants known as sans-papiers before then analysing depictions of deportations made possible by the controversial double peine law. Next, it will examine films about relations between young people and the police in suburban France before exploring films that challenge cliches about these areas. The conclusion assesses what these films show about contemporary French political cinema. Introduction Chapter One: Cinema and the Republic Chapter Two: T he Sans-papiers on Screen – Contextualising Immigrant Experiences in Film Chapter Three: Double peine: The Challenges of Mobilising Support for Foreign Criminals via Cinema Chapter Four: C hallenging or Perpetuating Clichés? Young People and the Police in France’s Banlieues Chapter Five: C hallenging Stereotypes about France’s Banlieues by Shifting the Focus? Conclusion Notes Filmography and Bibliography Index

Author : Bas Arts,Arnoud Lagendijk,Henk J. van Houtum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781402094804

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The Disoriented State by Bas Arts,Arnoud Lagendijk,Henk J. van Houtum Pdf

By providing a unique combination of theories on the state, on territoriality and on governance, The Disoriented State explores the relationship between state governmentality and specific forms of policy making. The Disoriented State begins with a theorisation of these new modes of territoriality, governmentality and governance by three prominent scholars in the field: Neil Brenner, Phil Cerny and Bob Jessop. This is followed by a series of in-depth case studies which manifest the variety as well the various forms of co-constitution between state governmentality, new modes of governance and policy-making, focusing on migration, spatial economic policy, city-marketing, urban development, water management and environmental policy.

Author : Gianni Vattimo,Michael Marder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441115560

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Deconstructing Zionism by Gianni Vattimo,Michael Marder Pdf

This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series provides a political and philosophical critique of Zionism. While other nationalisms seem to have adapted to twenty-first century realities and shifting notions of state and nation, Zionism has largely remained tethered to a nineteenth century mentality, including the glorification of the state as the only means of expressing the spirit of the people. These essays, contributed by eminent international thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, Gianni Vattimo, Walter Mignolo, Marc Ellis, and others, deconstruct the political-metaphysical myths that are the framework for the existence of Israel.Collectively, they offer a multifaceted critique of the metaphysical, theological, and onto-political grounds of the Zionist project and the economic, geopolitical, and cultural outcomes of these foundations. A significant contribution to the debates surrounding the state of Israel today, this groundbreaking work will appeal to anyone interested in political theory, philosophy, Jewish thought, and the Middle East conflict.

Author : Barbara Crain Major,Joseph Barndt
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506470122

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Deconstructing Racism by Barbara Crain Major,Joseph Barndt Pdf

Barbara Crain Major and Joseph Barndt bring ninety combined years of experience as community organizers, teachers, and anti-racism trainers in community and church settings to this book. In Deconstructing Racism, they propose the deconstruction of racism's roots within systems and institutions that have been created, both structurally and legally, to serve white people. The authors propose that the deconstruction of racism must take place through the reconstruction of these systems and institutions. The authors seek to unmask the complexities of racism and the invisible patterns that keep it in place. There is no quick fix, but they believe racism can be deconstructed and undone. In order to do this, they identify and address race-based identity, history, and cultural issues rooted in current systems. Three chapters specifically address societal systems and provide anti-racism strategies for community organizers. Three chapters address racism as rooted in systems in the church and challenge people of faith to seek racial healing through understanding, honest confession, true reconciliation, and reconstructed church institutions. A final chapter outlines a way forward to and through a new era of anti-racist reconstruction. This way forward includes a new anti-racist mission statement, a new model of decision-making power, and new processes for accountability.

Author : Endong, Floribert Patrick C.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781522598237

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Deconstructing Images of the Global South Through Media Representations and Communication by Endong, Floribert Patrick C. Pdf

The human condition has continued to improve phenomenally in today’s world with the development of technology and medicine. This includes developing countries in areas such as Africa, Asia, and South America. Despite the emergence of economy, education, and infrastructure in these regions, media outlets continue to forego their advancements in favor of the negativities that plague these states such as poverty, hunger, and corruption. There is a need to research international media portrayals of the less developed world to ascertain the myth that these areas are still struggling. Deconstructing Images of the Global South Through Media Representations and Communication provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of how global media analyzes developing countries. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as cultural affirmation, online platforms, and audience perception, this book is ideally designed for communications specialists, journalists, broadcasters, newscasters, conflict photographers, media practitioners, policymakers, international relation experts, column writers/editors, students, politicians, government officials, researchers, and academicians seeking current research on the world’s perception of developing countries through media coverage.

Author : Hermine G. De Soto,Nora Dudwick
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 0299163741

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Fieldwork Dilemmas by Hermine G. De Soto,Nora Dudwick Pdf

Author : Peter Mason
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040001523

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Deconstructing America by Peter Mason Pdf

First published in 1990, Deconstructing America breaks new ground by locating the European discovery of America within the study of representations of Otherness. Peter Mason acknowledges that America was part of the European imagination before its discovery, but challenges the claim that the European vision of America is merely a distorted view of some extra-European reality. He relates the way in which Europe tended to see the inhabitants of South America as monstrous figures to a longstanding European tradition on the ‘Plinian’ human races, and goes on to point out that the existence of similar representations among contemporary Amerindian peoples calls into question the extent to which ethnocentrism is an exclusively European idea. Drawing on anthropological, literary and philosophical studies, he shows how European representations of America constitute a cultural monologue which tells more about the Old World than the New. This book will be a stimulating reading for all those working in the fields of symbolic and cultural anthropology, semiotics, cultural studies, Latin America, structuralism and deconstruction.

Author : Philip G. Cerny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199745331

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Rethinking World Politics by Philip G. Cerny Pdf

Rethinking World Politics is a major intervention into a central debate in international relations: how has globalization transformed world politics? Most work on world politics still presumes the following: in domestic affairs, individual states function as essentially unified entities, and in international affairs, stable nation-states interact with each other. In this scholarship, the state lies at the center; it is what politics is all about. However, Philip Cerny contends that recent experience suggests another process at work: "transnational neopluralism." In the old version of pluralist theory, the state is less a cohesive and unified entity than a varyingly stable amalgam of competing and cross-cutting interest groups that surround and populate it. Cerny explains that contemporary world politics is subject to similar pressures from a wide variety of sub- and supra-national actors, many of which are organized transnationally rather than nationally. In recent years, the ability of transnational governance bodies, NGOs, and transnational firms to shape world politics has steadily grown. Importantly, the rapidly growing transnational linkages among groups and the emergence of increasingly influential, even powerful, cross-border interest and value groups is new. These processes are not replacing nation-states, but they are forging new transnational webs of power. States, he argues, are themselves increasingly trapped in these webs. After mapping out the dynamics behind contemporary world politics, Cerny closes by prognosticating where this might all lead. Sweeping in its scope, Rethinking World Politics is a landmark work of international relations theory that upends much of our received wisdom about how world politics works and offers us new ways to think about the forces shaping the contemporary world.

Author : Nezar AlSayyad,Manuel Castells
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739157954

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Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam by Nezar AlSayyad,Manuel Castells Pdf

Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim citizens. Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam brings together distinguished scholars from Europe, the United States, and the Middle East in a dynamic discussion about the Muslim populations living in Europe and about Europe's role in framing Islam today. The book raises several crucial questions: Does Islam offer a special case for citizenship? Is assimilation or multiculturalism the model to be followed in the case of Muslims in Europe? How powerful a force is Islam in determining identity? And why is Islam—after centuries of being a presence in Europe—not considered a European religion? Working at the knotty intersection of cultural identity, the politics of nations and nationalisms, and religious persuasions, this is an invaluable anthology of scholarship that reveals the multifaceted natures of both Europe and Islam.

Author : Cécile Laborde
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199550210

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Critical Republicanism by Cécile Laborde Pdf

Critical Republicanism proposes an entirely new approach to the management of religious and cultural pluralism, based on the pursuit of the progressive ideal of non-domination in existing, non-ideal societies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Robert J. Pauly,Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317112457

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Islam in Europe by Robert J. Pauly,Jr. Pdf

In this timely work, Robert J. Pauly, Jr. looks in detail at the impact of Islam’s presence in Europe. He examines five areas of particular importance: the effect of the growth of Muslim communities on the demographics of Western Europe generally, and France, Germany and the United Kingdom in particular; the consequences of the marginalization of Muslims on domestic and international security within and outside of Western Europe in the post-11 September 2001 era; the impact of the issue of Islam in Europe on the European Union’s ongoing deepening and widening processes; the potential correlation between the increased visibility of Islam in Europe and the growth of far-right political parties across the continent; and the broader relationships between the issues of Islam in Europe, Islam and Europe, and Islam and the West.