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  • Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism

    Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies

    by Nicolette Makovicky ...
    Despite a growing literature debating the consequences of neo-liberal political and economic policy in the former Eastern bloc, the idea of neo-liberal personhood has so far received limited attention from scholars of the region. Presenting a range of ethnographic studies, this book lays the groundwork for a new disciplinary agenda by critically examining novel technologies of self-government ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Beyond the Social Contract

    An Anthropology of Tax

    Edited by Robin Smith, Nicolette Makovicky ...
    Series Book 15 - Studies in Social Analysis
    Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking. The contributors shed light on contemporary fiscal structures and public debates about the moralities, practices, and imaginaries of tax systems, using tax to explore the ... Read more

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  • Economies of Favour after Socialism

    Edited by David Henig, Nicolette Makovicky ...
    Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led to their re-engagement with fundamental anthropological categories of economic analysis, such as barter, debt, and the gift. Focusing on ... Read more

    $93.79 CAD

  • Slogans

    Subjection, Subversion, and the Politics of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Nicolette Makovicky, Anne-Christine Trémon, Sheyla Zandonai ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    Focusing on contexts of accelerated economic and political reform, this volume critically examines the role of slogans in the contemporary projects of populist mobilization, neoliberal governance, and civic subversion. Bringing together a collection of ethnographic studies from Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Abu Dhabi, Peru, and China, the contributors analyze the way in which slogans both convey and ... Read more

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    Culture and Modernity in China

    by Justin O'Connor, Xin Gu ...
    This book brings together multiple strands of debate around the cultural creative industries and contemporary capitalism, China’s position in global capitalism, the future of modernity and new ways of thinking about culture and cultural policy. Clearly written and engaging, it is the first study to provide a critical lens on creative industries discourse and to bring it together with detailed ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Representing Race

    Racisms, Ethnicity and the Media

    by Charles Husband, John D. H. Downing ...
    Well-informed, thoughtful and transnational in its perspectives, Downing and Husband′s work is likely to become the key text in the field. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of race and representation.- Professor Daya K. Thussu, University of WestminsterThe media play a diverse and significant role in the practical expression of racism and in the everyday politics ... Read more

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  • Varieties of Nationalism

    Communities, Narratives, Identities

    by Harris Mylonas, Maya Tudor ...
    Series series Elements in the Politics of Development
    Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but also with xenophobia, genocide, and wars. Moving beyond facile distinctions between 'good' and 'bad' nationalisms, the authors argue that nationalism is an empirically variegated ideology. Definitional disagreements, Eurocentric conceptualizations, and ... Read more

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  • Postsocialism

    Ideals, ideologies and practices in Eurasia

    Edited by C.M. Hann ...
    Social scientists did not predict the collapse of the socialist system in 1989-91 and their attempts to explain postsocialism have not been comprehensive. Economic disintegration and political instability have been documented, but the deeper causes have often gone unnoticed. Consequently the solutions proffered, such as the promotion of non-governmental organisations as the foundations of 'civil ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • World 3.0

    Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right?Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation-or opposing both of them.It doesn’t have to be that way.In World 3.0, award-winning author and economist ... Read more

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  • How Much is Enough?

    Money and the Good Life

    by Robert Skidelsky, Edward Skidelsky ...
    In 1930 the great economist Keynes predicted that, over the next century, income would rise steadily, people's basic needs would be met and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Why was he wrong?Robert and Edward Skidelsky argue that wealth is not - or should not be - an end in itself, but a means to 'the good life'. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the present, they show ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia

    Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering

    by Philipp Lottholz ...
    Series series Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It argues that, despite its emancipatory appearance, post-liberal statebuilding is best understood as a set of social ordering mechanisms that lead to new forms of exclusion, marginalization ... Read more

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  • Rebel Cities

    From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

    by David Harvey ...
    "David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." —Naomi KleinA "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city as a center for anti-capitalist resistance from an acclaimed theorist (The Guardian)Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD