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“palgrave pivot”

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  • The Contemporary Embassy

    Paths to Diplomatic Excellence

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    This innovative study considers why embassies today are especially relevant to the international system, examining the new representation options and global diplomacy techniques in an information age. Rana uniquely presents perspectives from developing states and analyses how embassies can improve their modes of function. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Russian Climate Politics

    When Science Meets Policy

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    Russia remains among the top-5 greenhouse gas emitters in the world and thus an important player in the field of international climate politics. To gain a deeper understanding of how Russian climate politics is formed, the changing and somewhat unexpected role scientists and scientific knowledge play in shaping Russian policymaking is explored. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Journalism in the Fallen Confederacy

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    During the American Civil War, several newspapers remained Confederate sympathizers despite their locations being occupied by Union troops. Examining these papers, the authors explore what methods of suppression occupiers used, how occupation influenced the editorial and business sides of the press, and how occupation impacted freedom of the press. ... Read more

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  • The Logic of Wish and Fear: New Perspectives on Genres of Western Fiction

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and contemporary television, this study sheds new light on the art of comedy. ... Read more

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  • North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era

    A New International Security Dilemma

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    This study is one of the very first to analyze North Korea and the challenges that it presents to international security and community, by looking through the prism of the first two years of the Kim Jong-un regime. ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The Circulation of European Knowledge: Niklas Luhmann in the Hispanic Americas

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    This book studies the circulation of social knowledge by focusing on the reception of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory in Hispanic America. It shows that theories need active involvement from scholars in the receiving field in order to travel. ... Read more

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  • The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture

    Am?ra and the 2011 Revolution

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?ra – the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agency – to explore the relationship between the Egyptian intellectual and 'the people' in contemporary Egyptian literature and culture. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Portuguese Sociology

    A History

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Sociology in Portugal provides the first English-language account of the history of sociology in Portugal from 1945 to the present day. Banned by the fascist regime until 1974, the institutionalization of sociology as an academic discipline came relatively late. Understanding academic disciplines as institutionalized struggles over meaning, Filipe Carreira da Silva gives a genealogy of sociology ... Read more

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  • Shame and Pride in Narrative

    Mexican Women's Language Experiences at the U.S.-Mexico Border

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States. It reveals the power of narrative, understood as a social practice, to validate and give meaning to people's lives. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Social Effects of Economic Thinking

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    The book explains how social outcomes result from the influence of economic ideas which are themselves strongly impacted by the distribution of power in society. The book examines policies and programs of contending interests, emphasizing the importance of socio-economic issues stemming from quasi-economic stagnation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria provides an economics perspective on the witchcraft episode, and adds to the growing body of work analyzing prominent historical events using the tools of economics. ... Read more

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  • Affirming the Absurd in Harold Pinter

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies of his plays. ... Read more

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