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“hari ramesh”

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  • Harnessing the State

    Oppressed Groups and the Pursuit of Radical Democracy

    by Hari Ramesh ...
    Building on the work of key twentieth-century US and Indian thinkers, a bold argument that oppressed groups can—and should—make use of state power to create truly democratic societies.Group-based social oppression, along lines such as caste in India and race in the United States, is a persistent problem in nominally democratic countries. Unsurprisingly, many citizens are skeptical that the state ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

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  • White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition

    The Legal Construction of Race

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    "Remains the definitive work on how American law constructed a 'white' race at the turn of the twentieth century . . . A must-read." —Mae M. Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern AmericaThe first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and others interested in ... Read more

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  • Racing to Justice

    Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

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    Renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have not achieved a post-racial society and that there is much work to do to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy. Culled from a decade of writing about social justice and spirituality, these meditations on race, identity, and social policy provide an outline for laying claim to our shared humanity and a way ... Read more

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  • Toppling the Melting Pot

    Immigration and Multiculturalism in American Pragmatism

    by José-Antonio Orosco ...
    Series series American Philosophy
    The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth century. José-Antonio Orosco examines the work of several pragmatist social thinkers, including John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Josiah Royce, and Jane Addams, regarding the challenges large-scale immigration brings to American democracy. Orosco argues that the ... Read more

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  • Difference without Domination

    Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies

    Edited by Danielle Allen, Rohini Somanathan ...
    Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma head-on, exploring new ways to combat current social hierarchies of domination.Using examples from the United States, India, Germany, and ... Read more

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  • Gendered Citizenship

    Historical and Conceptual Explorations

    by Anupama Roy ...
    Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive and egalitarian structure. But, the promise of equal membership in the politcal community ... Read more

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  • Why the Constitution Matters

    Selected Speeches | Justice D.Y. Chandrachud on Fundamental Rights, Landmark Judgments & the Constitution’s Role in Safeguarding Democracy

    by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud ...
    In Why the Constitution Matters Justice D.Y. Chandrachud delves into the profound significance of the Constitution in shaping the nation’s identity and governance. This insightful book offers readers a nuanced understanding of the Constitution’s role in protecting fundamental rights, ensuring justice and maintaining the rule of law. The author brings to the forefront his experience of nearly ... Read more

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  • Citizenship and Its Discontents

    An Indian History

    by Niraja Gopal Jayal ...
    Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern ... Read more

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  • The Enchantment of Democracy and India

    Politics and Ideas

    by Sudipta Kaviraj ...
    Sudipta Kaviraj has long been recognized as among India’s most thoughtful and wide-ranging political thinkers and analysts, one of the subtlest and most learned writers on Indian politics. Paradoxically, this has remained something of a state secret, because Kaviraj’s writings have remained scattered in journals difficult to access.The essays in this volume try to approach Indian democracy from ... Read more

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  • Un/common Cultures

    Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference

    by Kamala Visweswaran ...
    In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism—the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive—produces a view of “uncommon cultures” defined by relations of conflict rather than forms of collaboration. The ... Read more

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  • Applied Ethics

    A Multicultural Approach

    Edited by Larry May ...
    This best-selling text continues to fill an existing gap in the literature taught in applied ethics courses. As a growing number of courses that include the perspectives of diverse cultures are being added to the university curriculum, texts are needed that represent more multicultural and diverse histories and backgrounds. This new edition enhances gender coverage, as nearly half of the pieces ... Read more

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