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  • Studies in Urbanormativity

    Rural Community in Urban Society

    by Alexander R. Thomas, Brian Lowe, Polly Smith, Elizabeth Seale, Stephanie Bennett, Chris Stapel, Gretchen Thompson, R. V. Rikard, Curtis Stofferahn0, Gerald Creed1, Robert Moxley2, Thomas Gray3, Laura McKinney4, Karl A. Jicha5, Karen E. Hayden6, Aimee Vieira7, Barbara Ching8 ...
    The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Uncertain Transition

    Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World

    by Michael Burawoy, Sarah Ashwin, Gerald Creed, Elizabeth Dunn, Caroline Humphrey, Andrew Lass, David Woodruff, Slawomira Zbierski-Salameh ...
    The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models-whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity.The ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Knowing Your Place

    Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy

    Edited by Barbara Ching, Gerald W. Creed ...
    Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated.The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • Russian Economic Reform

    by James Leitzel ...
    Transitions from socialism to capitalism are complex, both in theory and practice. Russian Economic Reform enables the reader to come to a much better understanding of these momentous changes, by providing a clear and accessible account of the major features of transition. It argues that attempts to portray the reform process is a disaster are misconceived, because they fail to take account of ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Contemporary Art

    Edited by Jonathan Harris ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.First major anthology of essays concerned ... Read more

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  • How Russia Really Works

    The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business

    by Alena V. Ledeneva ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How Russia Really Works, Alena V. Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Europe's Growth Champion

    Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland

    by Marcin Piatkowski ...
    What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these questions, and many more, through a study of one of the biggest, and least heard about, economic success stories. Over the last twenty-five years Poland has transitioned from a perennially backward, poor, and peripheral country to unexpectedly join the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • What Fanon Said

    A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought

    by Lewis R. Gordon, Drucilla Cornell ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of “living thought” against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Russia's Changing Economic and Political Regimes

    The Putin Years and Afterwards

    Edited by Andrey Makarychev, Andre Mommen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    by Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki ...
    Series series TransCanada
    The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors to Trans.Can.Lit address cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Authoritarian Modernization in Russia

    Ideas, Institutions, and Policies

    Edited by Vladimir Gel'man ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    Post-Communist Russia is an instance of the phenomenon of authoritarian modernization project, which is perceived as a set of policies intended to achieve a high level of economic development, while political freedoms remain beyond the current modernization agenda or are postponed to a distant future. Why did Russia (unlike many countries of post-Communist Europe) pursue authoritarian ... Read more

    $65.99 USD