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  • Towards a Critique of Methodological Presentism in Migration Research

    A Focus on Denmark

    by Garbi Schmidt ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    This book investigates the benefits of integrating history, sociology, and ethnography to better understand migration and its consequences, using Denmark’s history of migration as a case study.Although migration research is an interdisciplinary field, much research on migration still occurs in disciplinary containers. The field is not least affected by a methodological presentism: a scholarly and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Muslim Minorities in the West

    Visible and Invisible

    by Abdelhamid Lotfi, Kathleen Moore, Agha Saheed, Robert M. Dannin, Khalid Fattah Griggs, Garbi Schmidt, Gary David, Sylviane A. Diouf, Saphinaz-Amal Naguib, James Helicke, A H. Johns, Samina Yasmeen, William Shepard, Tamara Sonn, John Voll ...
    Although they are typically portrayed by the media as dangerous extremists in distant lands, Muslims in fact form a permanent, peaceful and growing population in nearly every Western country. While Westerners are now more commonly seeing mosques in their neighborhoods or scarved Muslim women in their streets, misperceptions and stereotypes remain. With expanding numbers and desires to protect ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

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  • Liberating Sápmi

    Indigenous Resistance in Europe’s Far North

    by Gabriel Kuhn ...
    The Sámi, who have inhabited Europe’s far north for thousands of years, are often referred to as the continent’s “forgotten people.” With Sápmi, their traditional homeland, divided between four nation-states—Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia—the Sámi have experienced the profound oppression and discrimination that characterize the fate of indigenous people worldwide: their lands have been ... Read more

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  • The Nordic Model

    Scandinavia since 1945

    by Mary Hilson ...
    Series series Contemporary Worlds
    For a sparsely populated region on the edge of Europe, Scandinavia has attracted an unusual degree of interest during the twentieth century. The successes and failures of the famous ‘Scandinavian’ or ‘Nordic’ model in politics and policy continue to generate debate. The Nordic Model advocates a government-funded welfare state, an egalitarian tax system and strict job regulation. In this book ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Swedish Theory of Love

    Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden

    by Henrik Berggren, Lars Trägårdh ...
    Translated by Stephen Donovan ...
    Series series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
    In 2020 Sweden's response to COVID-19 drew renewed attention to the Nordic nation in a way that put the finger on a seeming paradox. Long celebrated for its commitment to social solidarity, Sweden suddenly emerged as the last country in the West to resist lockdown while defending individual rights and responsibilities. To explain these contradictions, Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh argue that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Lions of the North

    Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism

    by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum ...
    Often labeled "neo-Nazis" or "right-wing extremists," radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied on music to voice their opposition to immigration and multiculturalism. These actors shook political establishments throughout Sweden, Denmark, and Norway during the 1980s and 1990s by rallying around white power music and skinhead subculture. But though nationalists once embraced ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • On Revolutions

    Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World

    by Colin J. Beck, Mlada Bukovansky, Erica Chenoweth, George Lawson, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Daniel P. Ritter ...
    A cutting-edge appraisal of revolution and its future. On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century. Integrating insights from diverse fields--including civil resistance studies, international relations, social movements, and terrorism--they offer new ways of thinking about persistent problems in the study of ... Read more

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  • October 1917 Revolution

    A Century Later

    by Samir Amin ...
    Great revolutions make history. Conservative resistance and counter-revolutions only delay their progress. The French revolution invented modern politics and democracy, the Russian revolution paved the way for the socialist transition, while the Chinese revolution connected the emancipation of those peoples oppressed by imperialism with the path to socialism. These revolutions are great precisely ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism

    by Dale Stahl ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    To the dismay of many commentators – who had hoped the world was evolving into a more tolerant and multicultural community of nations united under the umbrellas of supranational movements like the European Union – the nationalism that was such a potent force in the history of the 20th-century has made a comeback in recent years. Now, more than ever, it seems important to understand what it is, how ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Blackening of Europe: Ideologies & International Developments

    The Blackening of Europe, #1

    by Clare Ellis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Blackening of Europe
    The Blackening of Europe is a critical analysis of the historical and ideological origins of the European Union, with special regard to the consequences of these developments for the indigenous Europeans who presently risk becoming demographic and political minorities in their own homelands.Broken into three volumes, Volume I. Ideologies and International Developments traces the seeds of the ... Read more

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  • The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model

    Challenges in the 21st Century

    Edited by Anu Koivunen, Jari Ojala, Janne Holmén ...
    The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity, and equality – start doubting themselves and their future? Is the Nordic ... Read more

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