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  • Status

    Honor and White Privilege in Brazil and Beyond

    by Bernd Reiter ...
    With this book, Bernd Reiter reflects on over three decades of research on race, exclusion, inequality, white supremacy, and the defense of privilege in Brazil to explore how social hierarchies, honor, and dignity perpetuate systemic disparities in Latin America. Status, as a structuring force of societies, Reiter argues, offers a different lens through which to analyze Latin American societies ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The African Origins of Democracy

    by Bernd Reiter ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The African Origins of Democracy challenges the myth that democracy was born in ancient Greece. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and political science, Bernd Reiter shows that egalitarian African societies practiced self-rule tens of thousands of years earlier—and that these traditions spread outward through migration and exchange. At the heart of the book is Botswana, where dikgotla—village ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities

    An Anti-Elitism Manifesto

    by Bernd Reiter ...
    In Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities Bernd Reiter contributes to the ongoing efforts to decolonize the social sciences and humanities, by arguing that true decolonization implies a liberation from the elite culture that Western civilization has perpetually promoted.Reiter brings together lessons learned from field research on a Colombian indigenous society, a maroon society, also ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Legal Duty and Upper Limits

    How to Save our Democracy and Planet from the Rich

    by Bernd Reiter ...
    This book proposes a radical new way of thinking about our democratic future, our ecological survival, and our ways to keep economies fair. It shows that adopting upper limits to wealth and income; replacing elections with local direct democracy and legal duty involving randomly selected citizens; and replacing welfare and redistribution policies with pre-distribution and reparations promises new ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Legal Duty and Upper Limits

    How to Save our Democracy and Planet from the Rich

    by Bernd Reiter ...
    This book proposes a radical new way of thinking about our democratic future, our ecological survival, and our ways to keep economies fair. It shows that adopting upper limits to wealth and income; replacing elections with local direct democracy and legal duty involving randomly selected citizens; and replacing welfare and redistribution policies with pre-distribution and reparations promises new ... Read more

    $19.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Legal Duty and Upper Limits

    How to Save our Democracy and Planet from the Rich

    by Bernd Reiter ...
    This book proposes a radical new way of thinking about our democratic future, our ecological survival, and our ways to keep economies fair. It shows that adopting upper limits to wealth and income; replacing elections with local direct democracy and legal duty involving randomly selected citizens; and replacing welfare and redistribution policies with pre-distribution and reparations promises new ... Read more

    $19.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dialectics of Citizenship

    Exploring Privilege, Exclusion, and Racialization

    by Bernd Reiter ...
    What does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants and needs of those who elected them and are keener on representing themselves and their financial ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the Path Ahead

    Alternatives to Political Representation and Capitalism

    by Bernd Reiter ...
    Series series Radical Subjects in International Politics
    Political representation and democracy are at odds and we need new models to organize politics without relying so heavily on elected representatives. Similarly, capitalism undermines markets, as the rich and wealthy shield their assets and make them untenable for average earners.Elitism thus undermines both democracy and markets and we need to devise ways to limit the power of professional ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies

    Edited by Bernd Reiter, John Antón Sánchez ...
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American Studies.Afro-Latins as a civilization developed during the period of slavery, obtaining cultural contributions from Indigenous and European worlds, while today they are enriched by new social configurations derived from contemporary migrations from Africa. The essays collected in this volume speak to ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Constructing the Pluriverse

    The Geopolitics of Knowledge

    Edited by Bernd Reiter ...
    The contributors to Constructing the Pluriverse critique the hegemony of the postcolonial Western tradition and its claims to universality by offering a set of “pluriversal” approaches to understanding the coexisting epistemologies and practices of the different worlds and problems we inhabit and encounter. Moving beyond critiques of colonialism, the contributors rethink the relationship between ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Autonomous Cooperation and Control in Logistics

    Contributions and Limitations - Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

    Edited by Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Michael Hülsmann, Katja Windt ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Many new technologies – like RFID, GPS, and sensor networks – that dominate innovative developments in logistics are based on the idea of autonomous cooperation and control. This self-organisational concept describes „...processes of decentralized decision-making in heterarchical structures. It presumes interacting elements in non-deterministic systems, which possess the capability and possibility ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas

    Edited by Kimberly Eison Simmons, Bernd Reiter ...
    Series series Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
    Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being “racial paradises” populated by an amalgamated “cosmic race” of mulattos and mestizos, Latin America and the Caribbean have long been sites of shifting exploitative ... Read more

    $32.89 USD