The Present Politics Of The Past

Author : Seán Patrick Eudaily
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135931506

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The Present Politics of the Past by Seán Patrick Eudaily Pdf

This work applies Jacques Derrida's framework of "spectropolitics" to (post)coloniality in order to investigate the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements, advances a poststructural approach to the analysis of liberal politics based upon the historical sociology of Michel Foucault, and critically engages the literatures on ethnic politics, critical legal studies, and multicultural democracy. In addition, two historical case dossiers (the Mabo v. Queensland decision and its aftermath in Australia; and the diverse legal strategies of First Nations activism in Canada following the Delgamuukw v. B.C. decision) focus on the "strategic space" in which new indigenous political identities are produced and performed.

Author : Frederick M. Wirt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351498098

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Politics, Products, and Markets by Frederick M. Wirt Pdf

In contemporary life, the marketplace has emerged as an important arena for the practice of politics. Concerns about personal and family well-being as well as ethical or political assessment of favorable and unfavorable business and government practices become part and parcel of the marketplace of politics. This volume describes this phenomenon as political consumerism, reflecting an understanding of politics as a product embedded in a complex social and normative context. Politics, Products, and Markets is the first general study of political consumerism. It asks fundamental questions, including what is new and what is old about the phenomenon. The authors discuss the mediating role of political consumerism in the problematic relationship between markets and morality. They explore whether institutional arrangements have been developed to permit consumers and producers to assume ethical responsibility for their choices and behavior. They ask why political consumerism is presently on the rise. And they investigate the relationship between globalization and political consumerism. Part 1, "Making Money Morally," discusses how political consumerism challenges the perceived division between private interests pursued by private actors in the market and public interests pursued through political means. Part 2, "Consumer Choices and Setting of the Agenda of Politics," contains examples of how political consumerism sets the agenda of politics and discusses its democratic quality. Part 3, "Building Responsible Institutions in Multi-Risk Society," has as its central theme the development of new political consumer institutions. Part 4, "Politicizing Consumers and Change in Politics," studies the characteristics of political consumers and raises the question of whether political consumerism really is politics. This volume will be of interest to social scientists, social activists, and policy institutes.

Author : R. Bramall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137313812

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The Cultural Politics of Austerity by R. Bramall Pdf

This timely book examines austerity's conflicted meanings, from austerity chic and anti-austerity protest to economic and eco-austerity. Bramall's compelling text explores the presence and persuasiveness of the past, developing a new approach to the historical in contemporary cultural politics.

Author : Hannes Swoboda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9282326276

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Politics of the Past by Hannes Swoboda Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554887965

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Dynasties and Interludes by Anonim Pdf

A comprehensive and unique overview of elections and voting in Canada from Confederation to the recent spate of minority governments, this book examines changes in the composition of the electorate, as well as the technology and professionalization of election campaigns.

Author : Bob Jessop
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745669946

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The State by Bob Jessop Pdf

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of different interpretations. In this book, distinguished state theorist Bob Jessop provides a critical introduction to the state as both a concept and a reality. He lucidly guides readers through all the major accounts of the state, and examines competing efforts to relate the state to other features of social organization. Essential themes in the analysis of the state are explored in full, including state formation, periodization, the re-scaling of the state and the state's future. Throughout, Jessop clearly defines key terms, from hegemony and coercion to government and governance. He also analyses what we mean when we speak about 'normal' and 'exceptional' states, and states that are 'failed' or 'rogue'. Combining an accessible style with expert sensitivity to the complexities of the state, this short introduction will be core reading for students and scholars of politics and sociology, as well as anyone interested in the changing role of the state in contemporary societies.

Author : Seán Patrick Eudaily
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135931513

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The Present Politics of the Past by Seán Patrick Eudaily Pdf

Each phrase in the title of this work gives a clue as to its purpose and agenda. "Thepresent politics of the past" refers to the conditions that have arisen in the recent politicsof advanced liberal states with indigenous populations (such as the U.S., Canada,Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Australia) where "the past" is an issue or even at stake incontemporary struggles.

Author : Forrest Hylton,Sinclair Thomson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789603477

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Revolutionary Horizons by Forrest Hylton,Sinclair Thomson Pdf

In an age of military neoliberalism, social movements and center-Left coalition governments have advanced across South America, sparking hope for radical change in a period otherwise characterized by regressive imperial and anti-imperial politics. Nowhere do the limits and possibilities of popular advance stand out as they do in Bolivia, the most heavily indigenous country in the Americas. Revolutionary Horizons traces the rise to power of Evo Morales's new administration, whose announced goals are to end imperial domination and internal colonialism through nationalization of the country's oil and gas reserves, and to forge a new system of political representation. In doing so, Hylton and Thomson provide an excavation of Andean revolution, whose successive layers of historical sedimentation comprise the subsoil, loam, landscape, and vistas for current political struggles in Bolivia. Revolutionary Horizons offers a unique and timely window onto the challenges faced by Morales's government and by the South American continent alike.

Author : Vincent S. Leung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425728

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The Politics of the Past in Early China by Vincent S. Leung Pdf

History mattered to the political elite in ancient China. Leung explores why it was so important and to what end.

Author : Robert Gildea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107159587

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Empires of the Mind by Robert Gildea Pdf

Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.

Author : Emily Robinson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719086310

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History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics by Emily Robinson Pdf

History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics explores the use of the past in modern British politics. It examines party political perspectives on British history and the historical process and also looks at the ways in which memory is instituted within the parties in practice, through archives, written histories, and commemorations. It focuses in particular on a number of explicit negotiations over historical narratives: the creation of the National Curriculum for History, Conservative attempts to re-assess their historical role in 1997, the assertion of a "lost" social democratic tradition by the SDP and New Labour and the collapse of the Communist Party of Great Britain’s narrative memory in 1988-91. This book shows how history, heritage, and tradition are used to present parliamentary politics as intrinsically "historic" and suggests that the disappearance of active political pasts leaves contemporary politicians unable to speak of radically different futures.

Author : Jon Grinspan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781635574630

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The Age of Acrimony by Jon Grinspan Pdf

A penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. Democracy was broken. Or that was what many Americans believed in the decades after the Civil War. Shaken by economic and technological disruption, they sought safety in aggressive, tribal partisanship. The results were the loudest, closest, most violent elections in U.S. history, driven by vibrant campaigns that drew our highest-ever voter turnouts. At the century's end, reformers finally restrained this wild system, trading away participation for civility in the process. They built a calmer, cleaner democracy, but also a more distant one. Americans' voting rates crashed and never fully recovered. This is the origin story of the “normal” politics of the 20th century. Only by exploring where that civility and restraint came from can we understand what is happening to our democracy today. The Age of Acrimony charts the rise and fall of 19th-century America's unruly politics through the lives of a remarkable father-daughter dynasty. The radical congressman William “Pig Iron” Kelley and his fiery, Progressive daughter Florence Kelley led lives packed with drama, intimately tied to their nation's politics. Through their friendships and feuds, campaigns and crusades, Will and Florie trace the narrative of a democracy in crisis. In telling the tale of what it cost to cool our republic, historian Jon Grinspan reveals our divisive political system's enduring capacity to reinvent itself.

Author : Bradford Vivian
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271075006

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Public Forgetting by Bradford Vivian Pdf

Forgetting is usually juxtaposed with memory as its opposite in a negative way: it is seen as the loss of the ability to remember, or, ironically, as the inevitable process of distortion or dissolution that accompanies attempts to commemorate the past. The civic emphasis on the crucial importance of preserving lessons from the past to prevent us from repeating mistakes that led to violence and injustice, invoked most poignantly in the call of “Never again” from Holocaust survivors, tends to promote a view of forgetting as verging on sin or irresponsibility. In this book, Bradford Vivian hopes to put a much more positive spin on forgetting by elucidating its constitutive role in the formation and transformation of public memory. Using examples ranging from classical rhetoric to contemporary crises like 9/11, Public Forgetting demonstrates how, contrary to conventional wisdom, communities may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment concerning the lessons and responsibilities of their shared past.

Author : Jacob S. Hacker,Paul Pierson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781416588702

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Winner-Take-All Politics by Jacob S. Hacker,Paul Pierson Pdf

Analyzes the growing divide between the incomes of the wealthy class and those of middle-income Americans, exonerating popular suspects to argue that the nation's political system promotes greed and under-representation.

Author : Stefan Berger,Caner Tekin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785338809

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History and Belonging by Stefan Berger,Caner Tekin Pdf

In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU’s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a project to ask: Could such an uncontested history of Europe ever exist? Combining studies of national politics, supranational institutions, and the fraught EU-Mideast periphery with a particular focus on the twentieth century, the contributors to History and Belonging offer a fascinating survey of the attempt to forge a post-national identity politics.