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  • 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

    $44.99 USD

  • '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

  • '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

  • 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

  • Affective States

    Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions

    Edited by Madeleine Reeves, Mateusz Laszczkowski ...
    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

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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

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  • 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 Political Psychology of War Rape

    Studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina

    by Inger Skjelsbæk ...
    Series series War, Politics and Experience
    This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding war rape and its impact, through empirical examination of the case of Bosnia.Providing a contextual understanding of sexual violence in war, and situating Bosnian war rape in relation to subsequent conflicts, the book offers a methodological outline of how sexual violence in war can be studied from a political-psychological perspective. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Forging the World

    Strategic Narratives and International Relations

    by Alister Miskimmon, Ben O'Loughlin, Laura Roselle ...
    Forging the World brings together leading scholars in International Relations (IR) and Communication Studies to investigate how, when, and why strategic narratives shape the structure, politics, and policies of the global system. Put simply, strategic narratives are tools that political actors employ to promote their interests, values, and aspirations for the international order by managing ... Read more

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  • Genocide

    Truth, Memory, and Representation

    by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic “truth” about the past? In this important volume, leading anthropologists consider such questions about the relationship of ... Read more

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  • Stable Peace Among Nations

    by Rikard Bengtsson, Magnus Ericson, James Goodby, Joe D. Hagan, Adrian Hyde-Price, Benjamin Miller, Kjell-Åke Nordquist, Alfred Tovias, Raimo Våyrynen, John M. Owen IV ...
    This book builds on the original conceptualization of stable peace by Kenneth Boulding and adds contemporary theoretical and empirical understandings of its nature, causes, conditions, dimensions, and prospects for consolidation and expansion. In original research, fifteen international scholars assess the policy relevance of stable peace for the Middle East peace process and for the future of ... Read more

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