The Power Of The Powerless Routledge Revivals

Author : Vaclav Havel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135155667

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The Power of the Powerless (Routledge Revivals) by Vaclav Havel Pdf

Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period. Václav Havel’s essay provides the title for the book. It was read by all the contributors who in turn responded to the many questions which Havel raises about the potential power of the powerless. The essays explain the anti-democratic features and limits of Soviet-type totalitarian systems of power. They discuss such concepts as ideology, democracy, civil liberty, law and the state from a perspective which is radically different from that of people living in liberal western democracies. The authors also discuss the prospects for democratic change under totalitarian conditions. Steven Lukes’ introduction provides an invaluable political and historical context for these writings. The authors represent a very broad spectrum of democratic opinion, including liberal, conservative and socialist.

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781473561960

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The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel Pdf

Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Václav Havel’s meditation on political dissent – the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it – would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy. 'Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump' Pankaj Mishra

Author : Judith Lowder Newton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136193989

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Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals) by Judith Lowder Newton Pdf

First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the status of middle-class women that culminated in the constructed idea of "women’s proper sphere". This concept disguised inequities between men and women, first by asserting the reality of female power, and then by restricting it to self-sacrificing influence. In this book, Judith Newton analyses novels such as Fanny Burney’s Evelina, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss in order to demonstrate how some female writers reacted to the issue by covertly resisting inequities of power and reconciling ideologies in their art. She argues that in this time period, novels became increasingly rebellious as well as ambivalent . Heroines were endowed with power, and emphasis was given to female ability, rather than to feminine influence.

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137592736

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Popular Music in Eastern Europe by Ewa Mazierska Pdf

This book explores popular music in Eastern Europe during the period of state socialism, in countries such as Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Estonia and Albania. It discusses the policy concerning music, the greatest Eastern European stars, such as Karel Gott, Czesław Niemen and Omega, as well as DJs and the music press. By conducting original research, including interviews and examining archival material, the authors take issue with certain assumptions prevailing in the existing studies on popular music in Eastern Europe, namely that it was largely based on imitation of western music and that this music had a distinctly anti-communist flavour. Instead, they argue that self-colonisation was accompanied with creating an original idiom, and that the state not only fought the artists, but also supported them. The collection also draws attention to the foreign successes of Eastern European stars, both within the socialist bloc and outside of it. v>

Author : Pawel Mink, Georges Reichardt, Iwona Kowal
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838213217

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Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine I by Pawel Mink, Georges Reichardt, Iwona Kowal Pdf

Volume One of Three Revolutions presents the overall research and discussions on topics related to the revolutionary events that have unfolded in Ukraine since 1990. The three revolutions referred to in this project include: the Revolution on Granite (1990); the Orange Revolution (2004–2005); and the Euromaidan Revolution (2013–2014). The project’s overall goal was to determine the extent to which we have the right to use the term “revolution” in relation to these events. Moreover, the research also uncovered the methodological problems associated with this task. Lastly, the project investigated to what extent the three revolutions are connected to each other and to what extent they are detached. Hence, the research in this volume not only discusses the theoretical aspects but also provides new analyses on such issues as religion, memory, and identity in Ukraine.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 4146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315442518

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Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series by Various Authors Pdf

First published between 1975 and 1991, this set reissues 13 volumes that originally appeared as part of the History Workshop Series. This series of books, which grew out of the journal of the same name, advocated ‘history from below’ and examined numerous, often social, issues from the perspectives of ordinary people. In the words of founder Raphael Samuel, the aim was to turn historical research and writing into ‘a collaborative enterprise’, via public gatherings outside of a traditional academic setting, that could be used to support activism and social justice as well as informing politics. Some of the topics examined in the set include: mineral workers, rural radicalism, and the lives and occupations of villagers in the nineteenth century; working class association; the development of left-wing workers theatre and the changing attitudes to mass culture across the twentieth century; the changing fortunes of the East End at the turn of the century; the position of women from the nineteenth century to the present; the miners’ strike of 1984-5; the social and political images of late-twentieth century London; and a three volume analysis of the myriad facets of English patriotism. This set will be of interest to students of history, sociology, gender and politics.

Author : Sofia Fenner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231557504

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Shouting in a Cage by Sofia Fenner Pdf

Durable authoritarian rule often rests on the co-optation of challengers. The conventional story is straightforward: rulers entice opposition groups to “sell out,” offering them benefits if they set aside their antiauthoritarian aspirations and become part of the system. However, co-optation does not always neutralize former adversaries, and even seemingly domesticated opponents can turn on their rulers. Co-optation does weaken opposition—but it is not as simple, reliable, or transactional as existing theories claim. Shouting in a Cage offers new ways to understand co-optation’s power and its limits by examining two co-opted parties, the Wafd Party in Egypt and the Istiqlal Party in Morocco. Sofia Fenner argues that co-optation is less a corrupt bargain than a discursive contest—a clash of competing interpretations. Co-opted parties conjure up imagined futures in which their short-term choices will lead to the realization of their long-term democratic goals. Meanwhile, other actors point to the disconnect between these parties’ antiauthoritarian aspirations and their participation in authoritarian systems. Fenner demonstrates that co-opted parties come to look hypocritical precisely because they refuse to give up their oppositional commitments. Their credibility sapped, they become unappealing allies and, eventually, political afterthoughts. However, such parties retain a surprising capacity for opposition, rooted in the literal and metaphorical idea of “party as family.” Based on extensive archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in North Africa, Shouting in a Cage broadens our understanding of political behavior under authoritarianism.

Author : Dan Swain,Petr Urban,Catherine Malabou,Petr Kouba
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538157961

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Unchaining Solidarity by Dan Swain,Petr Urban,Catherine Malabou,Petr Kouba Pdf

The concept of mutual aid is central to the anarchist tradition, but also a source of controversy. This book’s intervention is to consider solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of politics and biology, developing out of the work of Catherine Malabou.

Author : John Keane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 1315487373

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The Power of the Powerless by John Keane Pdf

Author : Chris Rojek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317821212

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Capitalism and Leisure Theory (Routledge Revivals) by Chris Rojek Pdf

First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society. Basing his argument on a refutation of the conventional association of leisure with freedom and free time, Chris Rojek examines the four main structural characteristics of modern leisure practice: privatisation, individuation, commercialisation and pacification. The writings of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Freud are used to locate the question of leisure in more mainstream social theory. This interesting reissue will be of particular value to students of sociology and leisure studies, and those with an interest in the relationship between leisure and power.

Author : Carolyn Steedman,Cathy Urwin,Valerie Walkerdine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315446387

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Routledge Revivals: Language, Gender and Childhood (1985) by Carolyn Steedman,Cathy Urwin,Valerie Walkerdine Pdf

First published in 1985, this book brings together recent work on women and children from the nineteenth-century to the present. The contributors explore in different ways, and from different points of view, the way in which issues of language have been — and are still — central to the history of women and their relation to domestic and educational practices. A crucial issue is the contrast between what it spoken about girls and women, and what girls and women can speak about. The contributors relate this theme specifically to women’s position as mothers and the education of girls and women.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-07T22:59:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798822504561

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Summary of Vaclav Havel & John Keane's The Power of the Powerless by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Power of the Powerless was a book written by Czech writer Václav Havel, who described how his country was able to resist totalitarianism. He believed that the book was also a critique of the Western democracies. #2 Havel’s essay, The Power of the Powerless, is about how we must take responsibility for truth in the world. Truth is what moves us in the world, and how we move the world back. We must take decisions that accord with our personal sense of what matters. #3 Havel’s book, The Power of the Powerless, was published in Czechoslovakia in 1978. It was a collection of essays about dissent, and it exposed the abnormality of normalization. It changed the semantics of the political drama so that typical behavior seemed absurd. #4 Following 1968, the Czechoslovak government allowed the writer Jaroslav Dietl to work as a screenwriter for Czechoslovak state television. He took policies that would have been portrayed by earlier Stalinists as heroic, such as the collectivization of agriculture or the demolition of old town centers, and turned them into the backdrop for soap operas.

Author : N. Craig Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317590057

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Morality and the Market (Routledge Revivals) by N. Craig Smith Pdf

Can businesses abandon the axiom that the customer is always right when consumers start questioning the ethics of business practices? Professor Craig Smith examines the theory and practice of ethical purchase behaviour, a crucial mechanism for ensuring social responsibility in business. He explains how and why consumers have used their purchasing power to influence corporate policies and practices. He argues the case for the social control of business, drawing on perspectives from marketing, economics, politics, sociology, and business policy. He concludes that the market may act as an arbiter of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ business practice. Dr Smith considers the practical aspects of ethical purchase behaviour, focusing on consumer boycotts as a specific form of this consumer behaviour, and explains how boycotted businesses should respond. This title, first published in 1990, is ideal for both business students and those who have a business of their own.

Author : Thomas Mathiesen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136284090

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The Defences of the Weak (Routledge Revivals) by Thomas Mathiesen Pdf

This is a sociological study of a Norwegian penal institution. The author spent two years in the institution, observing and interviewing inmates and staff, the target being to learn the extent to which American prisons fit with prison life in a different culture. He gives a fascinating answer to the question: Norwegian prisons were, at the time of the study, miles away from their American counterparts. The conflicts between prison officers and inmates were certainly there, but they took a very different form. Rather than engaging in deviant practices and norms, emphasising more or less solidary opposition against the staff, the Norwegian prisoners criticised the staff and the prison fiercely on the basis of their own norms; rather than engaging in deviance, they turned the common practises and norms of Norwegian society against the staff, engaging in a kind of moral surveillance of those in power. He coined the phrase of "censoriousness" to this approach from the "bottom" of the prison. Mathiesen spells out the major causes of this different approach, from characteristics of this particular prison to broader social forces.

Author : Laurence A. Blum,Victor Seidler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135232429

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A Truer Liberty (Routledge Revivals) by Laurence A. Blum,Victor Seidler Pdf

Simone Weil — philosopher, trade union militant, factory worker — developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves an alternative both to liberalism and to Marxism. In A Truer Liberty, originally published in 1989, Blum and Seidler show how Simone Weil’s philosophy sought to place political action on a firmly moral basis. The dignity of the manual worker became the standard for political institutions and movements. Weil criticized Marxism for its confidence in progress and revolution and its attendant illusory belief that history is on the side of the proletariat. Blum and Seidler relate Weil’s work to influential trends in political philosophy today, from analytic Marxism to central traditions within liberal thought. The authors stress the importance of Weil’s work for understanding liberation theology, Catholic radicalism, and, more generally, social movements against oppression which are closely tied to religion and spirituality.