1.Introduction: Resources Politics and Knowing the Salween River -- 2.Salween: What’s in a Name? -- 3.Hydropower Politics and Conflict on the Salween River -- 4.From Hydropower Construction to National Park Creation: Changing Pathways of the Nu River -- 5.Rites, Rights and Water Justice in Karen State: A Case Study of Community-based Water Governance and the Hatgyi Dam -- 6.Contested Water Go…
Introduction -- Cultural attributes and legal "No-mans land" in Greece -- Violent fraternities and garrison politics in Nigerias Fourth Republic: lessons from the "University of the South" -- Defining success in the military advising mission -- The privatization of civil-security sector relations and the struggle for public security in Iraq -- In entering the military organization: decivilianiz…
Part I: Neoliberal Processes -- Introduction of part I -- Financialization -- 2. Flexibilization -- 3. Personal Responsibilization -- 4. Privatization -- 5. The Neoliberalization of Nature -- Conclusion of part I -- Part II: Domination -- Introduction of part II -- 6. Probing Neoliberal Domination -- 7. Conceptualizing Neoliberal Domination -- 8. Modernization and the Neoliberal Condition -- Co…
Part I - Critique -- 1. Hateful groups and weak powers? -- 2. Evil leaders and obedient masses?.-3. Part II - Model -- 4.Identity: the group as a collective performance -- 5.Violence: the transformation of identity by collective shocks -- 6. Power: the role of leadership in critical junctures -- 7. Part III – Case Studies -- 8. Riots, religion and the mobilisation of communal hatred in India …
1. Introduction -- 2. The Postdiaspora Question -- 3. Crossborder Social Protection -- 4. Transnational Schooling -- 5. Extraterritorial Human Security -- 6. The Cosmonational State -- 7. The Postdiaspora Condition.This book aims to fill a void in the literature on the contributions of the state to the social protection, educational training, and human security of its overseas citizens. Additio…
Chapter I Introduction to Relationship between Central and Local Governments -- Chapter II Financial Contract System -- Chapter III Tax Distribution System -- Chapter IV Land Finance -- Chapter V Land Index -- Chapter VI Local Practice -- Chapter VII Relationship between Central and Local Governments and Townization -- References.This book examines the connection between central-local governmen…
Protest and Power -- Alter-globalization in Southern Europe -- Lifestyle Stereotypes -- Music and Politics, a Utopian Narrative -- A Ternary Model of Political Resistance: Subject, Action, and Object.Considering the rise of global political instability and subsequent importance of new social movements, this cutting edge book examines the relationship between the alter-globalization movement and…
- Chapter 1: Cognitive, social and psychological issues of public discourse and threat communication -- Chapter 2: Proximization: A threat-based model of policy legitimization -- Chapter 3: Health discourse: The war on cancer and beyond -- Chapter 4: Environmental discourse: Climate change -- Chapter 5: Technological discourse: Threats in the cyber-space -- Chapter 6: Immigration and anti-migr…
1. Introduction -- 2. Bourdieu’s intellectual biography -- 3. Classical and Modern Theories of the State -- 4. Bourdieu’s theory of the state -- 5. The Field of Power -- 6. State formation -- 7. An Assessment of Bourdieu’s theory of the State -- 8. Conclusion. .This book critically examines Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the state by assessing its theoretical and empirical value. Steven Lo…
1: Introduction -- 2: The historical and politico-military context of the border -- 3: The refugee problem from an official account -- 4: Reconstructions of social memory by refugees -- 5: Everyday life in refugee camps -- 6: Music and Art as symbols of identity and everyday resistance -- 7: Conclusion. .This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees’ identity building proce…