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  • Rebel Valley

    Territorio, Infrastructure and Resistance in Alpine Italy

    by Mateusz Laszczkowski ...
    Based in the Valsusa, a valley in the western Italian Alps bordering France, the No TAV movement has opposed the construction of a transborder high-speed railway for over thirty years. As the largest and longest-running of Italy's lotte territoriali (territorial struggles), it offers a sustained example of place-based resistance. Bringing together the anthropology of resistance and infrastructure ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • 'City of the Future'

    Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

    by Mateusz Laszczkowski ...
    Series Book 14 - Integration and Conflict Studies
    Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia

    Performing Politics

    by Madeleine Reeves, John Heathershaw, Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Aksana Ismailbekova, Alima Bissenova, Mateusz Laszczkowski, Ildiko Beller-Hann, Sarah Kendzior0, Tommaso Trevisani1, Morgan Yih-Yang Liu2, Cynthia Werner3, Kathleen Purvis-Roberts4 ...
    With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Kazakhstan in the Making

    Legitimacy, Symbols, and Social Changes

    by Ulan Bigozhin, Megan Rancier, Marlene Laruelle, Douglas Blum, Alima Bissenova, Sebastien Peyrouse, Wendell Schwab, Diana T. Kudaibergenova, Assel Tutumlu, Mateusz Laszczkowski0, Kristopher White1, Natalie Koch2, Alexander C. Diener3 ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    Kazakhstan is one of the best-known success stories of Central Asia, perhaps even of the entire Eurasian space. It boasts a fast growing economy—at least until the 2014 crisis—a strategic location between Russia, China, and the rest of Central Asia, and a regime with far-reaching branding strategies. But the country also faces weak institutionalization, patronage, authoritarianism, and regional ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Affective States

    Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions

    Edited by Mateusz Laszczkowski, Madeleine Reeves ...
    Series Book 5 - Studies in Social Analysis
    In recent years, political and social theory has been transformed by the heterogeneous approaches to feeling and emotion jointly referred to as ‘affect theory’. These range from psychological and social-constructivist approaches to emotion to feminist and post-human perspectives. Covering a wide spectrum of topics and ethnographic contexts—from engineering in the Andes to household rituals in ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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    The Structure of International Security

    by Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver ...
    Series Book 91 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Modern Italy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Anna Cento Bull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfaction with social and political reality, and perceived moral corruption. The Risorgimento, the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861, explicitly linked the quest for national unity to a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

    Edited by Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Hallin and Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring how the concepts and methods of their analysis do and do not prove useful when applied beyond the original focus of ... Read more

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  • The Crisis of Social Reproduction

    by Silvia Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Louise Toupin ...
    Translated by Käthe Roth ...
    In a series of interviews with Louise Toupin, groundbreaking feminist thinkers Silvia Federici and Mariarosa Dalla Costa return to the movement they co-founded in 1972—the International Feminist Collective. The feminist collective originated the radical and controversial demand for wages for housework. From these powerful roots, they continue to explain how their political thinking developed over ... Read more

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  • The Moral Neoliberal

    Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

    by Andrea Muehlebach ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state’s withdrawal ... Read more

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  • The Political Psychology of War Rape

    Studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina

    by Inger Skjelsbæk ...
    Series series War, Politics and Experience
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  • Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society

    The Civilization of War

    Edited by Alessandro Dal Lago, Salvatore Palidda ...
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    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book is an examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life ... Read more

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