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De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences

ISSN: 2747-5689

e-ISSN 2747-5697

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De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences is an interdisciplinary series which provides a platform for disseminating topical analyses of current events, showcasing new theoretical, empirical or applied research across the social sciences and related disciplines. Through engaging storytelling and in-depth analysis, it presents new work that appeals to a wide audience, and really engages with issues of major public interest, highlighting the implications for both policy and professional practice.

Buch 2023

Mass Protests in Iran

From Resistance to Overthrow

Masoud Kazemzadeh

Band 38 in dieser Reihe

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Mass Protests in Iran: From Resistance to Overthrow explores the various waves of protests in Iran over the past 44 years, surveying their causes, consequences, and outcomes. The author argues that the regime and its support base of fundamentalist groups constitute a minority in Iran and lack legitimacy, and thus the regime uses repression and violence to secure its rule. The result is a pre-revolutionary situation and a shifting political landscape of overthrows, constant mass protests and mass repression. Kazemzadeh’s analysis highlights the factors that would assist the fundamentalist regime in succeeding in suppressing these protests, and the factors that would assist the Iranian people in defeating the fundamentalist regime.
Written in an accessible style, this timely book offers a much-needed contribution to the literature on Iranian politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars, as well as policy makers, interested in Middle Eastern studies, social movements, protest movements, political science and sociology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111280288
ISBN:: 9783111280288
ISBN:: 9783111280387
ISBN:: 9783111280011
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Arabische Welt
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Menschenrechte
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2023

Turning Points

Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century

Holger Janusch, Witold Mucha, Julia Schwanholz, Alexander Reichwein, Daniel Lorberg

Band 37 in dieser Reihe

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Turning Points: Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century centers around the strikingly under-researched concept of turning points and its application in political science, including various theories, fields, and sub-disciplines. The chapters provide theoretical discussion and conceptual clarity by distinguishing a set of turning points at different analytical levels. Based on a wide range of case studies, the authors illustrate where, when and how different types of turning points occur (or not) against the backdrop of current challenges in and for Western democracies. The conceptual and empirical variety of the volume allows scholars and practitioners in policymaking to develop and apply their own frameworks when dealing with turning point dynamics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111272900
ISBN:: 9783111272900
ISBN:: 9783111272948
ISBN:: 9783111272160
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2024

The Trump Carnival

Populism, Transgression and the Far Right

Elizaveta Gaufman, Bharath Ganesh

Band 35 in dieser Reihe

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Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency represented a radical departure from political norms that are often classified by media and researchers as ‘populist’. Instead, this book theorizes Trump’s campaign and presidency with reference to Mikhail Bakhtin’s "carnival" – a medieval festival of transgression, ridicule, and renewal. In this book, Lisa Gaufman and Bharath Ganesh provide a closer insight into the Trump Carnival, developing interdisciplinary perspectives on populism, misogyny, misinformation, and far-right vernacular culture. Building on the idea of the carnivalesque, this book focuses on the laughing culture of the Trump campaigns and presidency that vilified minorities, disparaged women, and ultimately emboldened the far right. Bringing Bakhtin into dialogue with key developments in contemporary politics, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Trump phenomenon, American politics, and populism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111238135
ISBN:: 9783111238135
ISBN:: 9783111237992
ISBN:: 9783111242293
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World

Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives

Asoka Bandarage

Band 30 in dieser Reihe

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This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global existential crisis facing more and more debt trapped countries, especially in the post-colonial Global South. The book's in-depth case study raises important questions pertaining to sovereignty and political and economic democracy in Sri Lanka and the world at large.

The book also explores the emergence of the crisis in the context of the accelerating geopolitical conflict between China and the USA in the Indian Ocean. It ponders if the debt crisis, economic collapse and political destabilization in Sri Lanka were intentionally precipitated to the advantage of the Quadrilateral Alliance (USA, India, Australia and Japan).

Moving beyond geopolitical rivalry, the book juxtaposes Sri Lanka’s political-economic crisis with the broader ecological crisis of climate change and sea-level rise.

The book concludes with a consideration of the ethical dilemmas behind the debt and survival crisis in Sri Lanka and across the world. It points out a range of social movements and initiatives in Sri Lanka and the Global South which subscribe to collective and ecological alternatives and a Middle Path of sustainability and social justice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111203454
ISBN:: 9783111203454
ISBN:: 9783111356037
ISBN:: 9783111204079
ISBN:: 9783111203430
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Volkswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Volkswirtschaft, andere
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Asien-Pazifik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

Academic Writing for Geographers

A Handbook

James A. Tyner

Band 29 in dieser Reihe

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There are many ‘how-to’ books on writing for academics; none of these, however, relate specifically to the discipline of geography. In this book, the author identifies the principle modes of academic writing that graduate students and early-career faculty will encounter – specifically focusing on those forms expected of geographers, that is, those modes that are reviewed by academic peers.

This book is readily accessible to senior undergraduate and graduate students and early-career faculty who may feel intimidated by the process of writing. This volume is not strictly a ‘how-to’ or ‘step-by-step’ manual for writing an article or book; rather, through the use of real, concrete examples from published and unpublished works, the author de-mystifies the process of different types of scholarly pieces geographers have to write with the specific needs and challenges of the discipline in mind.

Although chapters are thematic-based, e.g., stand-alone chapters on book reviews, articles, and books, the manuscript is structured around the concept of story-telling, for it is the author’s contention that all writing, whether a ‘scientific’ study or more humanist essay, is a form of story-telling.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111189727
ISBN:: 9783111189727
ISBN:: 9783111190549
ISBN:: 9783111189086
Fachgebiet:: Geowissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Geografie
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2023

Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alexei Anisin

Band 25 in dieser Reihe

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From QR codes to stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, the pandemic posed intriguing questions about the nature of political power in a time that is increasingly being classified as marked by democratic erosion, backsliding, or populism, Through a multi-methodological analysis of datasets covering different characteristics of pandemic responses in 54 liberal democratic states, Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic draws attention to a different set of processes and dynamics. By adopting the theoretical frameworks of authoritarian liberalism and surveillance capitalism, a new explanation of political, economic, and social outcomes that arose over the course of the pandemic is provided in a critical cross-national inquiry. Findings turn attention to a previously neglected set of factors that were behind the emergence of widespread illiberal practices. Many liberal democracies experienced a metamorphosis that arose out of the unfettered implementation of authoritarian liberal economic policy making which merged with previously embedded structures of surveillance capitalism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111345703
ISBN:: 9783111345703
ISBN:: 9783111345932
ISBN:: 9783111081335
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Innenpolitik, Parteien, andere politische Organisationen
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

Environmental Injustice and Catastrophe

How Global Insecurities Threaten the Future of Humanity

Baris Cayli Messina

Band 24 in dieser Reihe

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Environmental Injustice and Catastrophe meticulously explores key global security issues that pose severe threats to the future of humanity and the planet. This distinctive, timely, and conceptually rigorous book combines a rich body of research. It is a valuable source for sociologists, political scientists, historians, critical theorists, and all those who care about our future and environment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111081687
ISBN:: 9783111081687
ISBN:: 9783111082097
ISBN:: 9783111081199
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Wissenschafts-, Technik- und Umweltsoziologie
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

Digital Islamophobia

Tracking a Far-Right Crisis

Emily Lynell Edwards

Band 21 in dieser Reihe

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The rise of far-right communities on digital platforms is a global crisis. Digital Islamophobia tracks far-right groups where they are a virtual and vicious threat, exploring how these networks grow, develop, and circulate Islamophobic hate-speech on Twitter. Reconstructing this media ecosystem, Digital Islamophobia traces the reactionary political ideologies animating these groups through feminist data analytic techniques in a transnational study of German and American far-right, digitally networked users.

This work illustrates far-right communities using data visualization techniques, identifies a taxonomy of user-types, analyzes themes and stories that motivate far-right users, and tracks the spread of linked forms of anti-Muslim sentiment, reactionary ideologies, and (mis)information. In doing so, Digital Islamophobia details how far-right discourse is not merely national, or even transatlantic, but increasingly transnationalized among American, German, as well as Indian and Nigerian digital networks. By tracking and tracing the contours of these far-right digital communities on Twitter and analyzing the content of their conversations, Digital Islamophobia provides policy-makers, researchers, and scholars with a potential road-map to stop them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111032887
ISBN:: 9783111032887
ISBN:: 9783111032955
ISBN:: 9783111032429
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy

1949–Present

Masoud Kazemzadeh

Band 20 in dieser Reihe

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The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy: 1949–Present explores the activities of the Iran National Front (INF). The INF is a coalition of parties, groups, and individuals and Iran’s oldest and main pro-democracy political party.

This book presents a political history of the INF from 1949 to the present day. It discusses the current platform of the INF, its leadership, policies, strategies, as well as criticisms and weaknesses. The volume draws on a rich range of primary sources, INF documents, and interviews, including translated transcripts with the top leader of the INF. As it is one of the major political parties opposing the current regime in Iran, the book also examines the current situation in the country. It provides an analysis of the nature of the political systems under the Shah and the Islamic Republic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110782158
ISBN:: 9783110782158
ISBN:: 9783110782226
ISBN:: 9783110782059
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Asien-Pazifik
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Politik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Innenpolitik, Parteien, andere politische Organisationen
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

A Theory of Catastrophe

Bryan S. Turner

Band 19 in dieser Reihe

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Sociology has developed theories of social change in the fields of evolution, conflict and modernization, viewing modern society as essentially unstable and conflict driven. However, it has not seriously studied catastrophe. A Theory of Catastrophe develops a sociology of catastrophes, comparing natural, social and political causes and consequences, and the social theories that might offer explanations.

A catastrophe is a general and systematic breakdown of social and political institutions resulting, among other things, in what we could call a catastrophe consciousness.

The Greek ‘cata-strophe’ formed the conclusion to a dramatic sequence of strophes. The cata-strophe was the final act of a drama, namely its denouement. Catastrophic denouements are without hope: genocides, military occupations, plagues, famines and earthquakes. A Theory of Catastrophe analyzes Pompeii, the Black Death, colonial genocide in North America, WWI and the Spanish Flu, and Nazi Germany and finally this century: terrorism, new wars, climate change and pandemics.

As a study of sociological theory, Bryan Turner discusses Spengler’s Decline of the West, Marxism as a theory of catastrophic capitalism, messianic movements, Weber on modernity, and risk society. He concludes by comparing optimism and pessimism, and the idea of inter-generational justice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110772364
ISBN:: 9783110772364
ISBN:: 9783110772234
ISBN:: 9783110772449
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Soziologische Theorie
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

Enough of Experts

Expert Authority in Crisis

Cara Reed, Michael Reed

Band 17 in dieser Reihe

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Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the challenges and threats to expert authority in neoliberal political economies and societies. It focuses upon the deep-seated political, economic, social and cultural transformations which have fundamentally destabilized and eroded the institutional foundations of expert authority over more than four decades. The book critically assesses the orthodox or ‘received’ model of expert authority as it has come under escalating pressures from a nexus of ideological, organizational, technological and cultural changes that have radically weakened the former’s core ‘institutional logic’ and practical efficacy. It also looks forward to a range of ‘expert futures’ in which expert groups and organizations decline in power and status as their prevalence proliferates to a stage where they become ubiquitous in neoliberal regimes. Finally, the book presents an alternative reflexive model of expert authority and governance that is grounded in the ‘dynamics of contestation and trust’ and stands in direct contrast to the orthodox, rational model.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110734911
ISBN:: 9783110734911
ISBN:: 9783110739053
ISBN:: 9783110734973
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Soziologische Theorie
Fachgebiet:: Sozialstruktur, soziales Leben, Bevölkerung, Sozialanthropologie
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Anthropologie
Fachgebiet:: Sozialanthropologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

Neoliberalism Reloaded

Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right

Matías Saidel

Band 13 in dieser Reihe

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Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right analyzes the violent enforcement of neoliberal governmentality and its relationship to the emergence of a new political and cultural Right that combines political authoritarianism, ethnocentric nationalism, racism, misogyny, and antifeminism with neoliberal economic principles. Many critical thinkers have defined this post-2008 crisis phase as a fascist moment of neoliberalism since far-Right movements and parties are not only enhancing their political representation but also setting the agenda of today’s politics. However, such a crucial political moment needs more precise analytical tools.

In this framework, Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right seeks to understand the emergence of the New Right and punitive neoliberalism not only as a reaction to a crisis of accumulation but also as an outcome of neoliberal reason and the historical neoliberal alliance with conservative and reactionary political forces. Therefore, far from thinking this moment as exceptional, this book seeks the roots of today’s punitive neoliberalism in its theoretical framework and in the violence inherent to neoliberal capitalism towards those racialized, colonized, genderized and precarized populations that cannot adjust to the norm of competitiveness. Thus, Neoliberalism Reloaded seeks to contribute to understanding the challenges of our present as a necessary step to imagine alternative futures.　　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723939
ISBN:: 9783110723939
ISBN:: 9783110723267
ISBN:: 9783110724011
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Politische Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Theorie
Fachgebiet:: Politische Ideengeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Pandemics Among Nations

U.S. Foreign Policy and the New Grand Chessboard

Iskren Ivanov

Band 12 in dieser Reihe

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The end of the Cold War marks the geopolitical peak of America’s global primacy. The centerpiece of U.S. Foreign Policy in the pre-pandemic world order was the assumption that promoting human rights and democracy will secure peace. However, the Coronavirus Pandemic challenged the U.S.-dominated globalized order. The international system in the post-pandemic age embodies a paradox of the American primacy and the Chinese struggle for global domination. Pandemics Among Nations: U.S. Foreign Policy and the New Grand Chessboard addresses the geopolitical puzzle of the post-pandemic world order and seeks to explain how COVID 19 has remastered Brzezinski’s theory of the Grand Chessboard. In this book, Ivanov offers a two-level approach, emphasizing the consequences of the Pandemic and their impact on U.S. Foreign Policy. He also argues that if the United States wants to maintain its leadership in the post-pandemic world order, Washington should develop a new concept of smart power to deter the Chinese Art of War.

The foremost goal of Pandemics Among Nations is to analyze how America could overcome the geopolitical effects of the Pandemic. The author examines three possible scenarios for the future role of the United States on the post-pandemic Chessboard. The analysis rests on the testing of a series of research hypotheses across a structured comparison of all elements of the remastered Grand Chessboard, not just on isolated case studies such as China’s rise, Russian New Imperialism or European ambitions for a mutual defense.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740868
ISBN:: 9783110740868
ISBN:: 9783110741018
ISBN:: 9783110740752
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Theorie
Fachgebiet:: Außenpolitik
Fachgebiet:: Internationale Beziehungen
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR

José A. Tapia

Band 11 in dieser Reihe

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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Old USSR discusses the importance of that crisis, surprisingly underplayed in the scientific literature, and presents evidence suggesting a potential role of the Chernobyl disaster among the causes contributing to it.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110761788
ISBN:: 9783110761788
ISBN:: 9783110761894
ISBN:: 9783110761733
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Gesellschaftspolitik, Sozialarbeit, Entwicklungshilfe
Fachgebiet:: Politische Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Energy Futures

Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life

Simone Abram, Karen Waltorp, Nathalie Ortar, Sarah Pink

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

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Everyday life as we knew it is increasingly challenged in a world of climate, social, health and political crisis. Emerging technologies, data analytics and automation open up new possibilities which have implications for energy generation, storage and energy demand. To support these changes we urgently need to rethink how energy will be sourced, shared and used. Yet existing approaches to this problem, driven by engineering, data analytics and capital, are dangerously conservative and entrenched.

Energy Futures critically evaluates this context, and the energy infrastructures, stakeholders, and politics that participate in it, to propose plausible, responsible and ethical modes of encountering possible energy futures. Imagining anthropocene challenges, emerging technologies and everyday life otherwise through empirically grounded studies, opens up possible energy futures.

Energy Futures proposes and demonstrates a new critical and interventional futures-oriented energy anthropology. Combining the theories and methods of futures anthropology with the critical expertise and perspectives of energy anthropology creates a powerful mode of engagement, which this book argues is needed to disrupt the dominant narratives about our energy futures. Its contributors collectively reveal and evidence through innovative ethnographic practice how new knowledge about imagined and possible energy futures can be mobilised in engagements with emerging technologies, anthropocene challenges and everyday realities.

In doing so it brings together authors, analytical expertise and ethnographic evidence from the global south, north and places in between, generated through innovative methodologies including remote video and comic strip methods and documentary video practice as well as long term fieldwork.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110745641
ISBN:: 9783110745641
ISBN:: 9783110745696
ISBN:: 9783110745627
Fachgebiet:: Technik
Fachgebiet:: Elektrotechnik
Fachgebiet:: Energietechnik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Anthropologie
Fachgebiet:: Sozialanthropologie
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

The Tragedy of Ukraine

What Classical Greek Tragedy Can Teach Us About Conflict Resolution

Nicolai N. Petro

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

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The conflict in Ukraine has deep domestic roots. A third of the population, primarily in the East and South, regards its own Russian cultural identity as entirely compatible with a Ukrainian civic identity. The state’s reluctance to recognize this ethnos as a legitimate part of the modern Ukrainian nation, has created a tragic cycle that entangles Ukrainian politics.

The Tragedy of Ukraine argues that in order to untangle the conflict within the Ukraine, it must be addressed on an emotional, as well as institutional level. It draws on Richard Ned Lebow’s ‘tragic vision of politics’ and on classical Greek tragedy to assist in understanding the persistence of this conflict. Classical Greek tragedy once served as a mechanism in Athenian society to heal deep social trauma and create more just institutions. The Tragedy of Ukraine reflects on the ways in which ancient Greek tragedy can help us rethink civic conflict and polarization, as well as model ways of healing deep social divisions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110743371
ISBN:: 9783110743371
ISBN:: 9783111356051
ISBN:: 9783110743470
ISBN:: 9783110743241
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Sozialstruktur, soziales Leben, Bevölkerung, Sozialanthropologie
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Theorie
Fachgebiet:: Internationale Beziehungen
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Monocratic Government

The Impact of Personalisation on Democratic Regimes

Fortunato Musella

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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Personalisation is the most relevant political phenomenon of our time. After the decline of structural and ideological foundations of Western democracies, a radical shift from collective to individual actors and institutions has occurred in several political systems. On the one hand, political leaders have gained centrality on the democratic scene as a consequence of both a more direct, sometimes plebiscitary, relationship with citizens, and a more direct control of the executive administration. On the other hand, a process of fragmentation occurs at the mass level, where electoral volatility has strongly increased and the spread of social media enables each citizen to express their convictions in the self-referential autonomy of the digital networks.

Monocratic Government: The Impact of Personalisation on Democratic Regimes analyses the consequences of personalisation of political leaders on democratic government by asking whether it is possible to keep together demos and kratos in a post-particratic context. It explores topics such as governmental decrees, Trump-governance, and includes an analysis of the coronavirus outbreak. Offering comparative insights and exploring how political leaders govern in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, and Hungary, this volume brings into focus the study of political personalisation in relation to some of the key trends – and crises – in modern politics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110721720
ISBN:: 9783110721720
ISBN:: 9783110721836
ISBN:: 9783110721386
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Theorie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

A Deal They Can’t Resist

Adaptive Accumulation and American Public Policy

Rodney Loeppky

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation, a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public programs, as a means to reroute public revenues into private revenue streams. Along the way, corporations project quasi-public aspirations as a central part of their commercial mission, as the state carves out new – or expands old – areas of accumulative growth for corporate America.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110761801
ISBN:: 9783110761801
ISBN:: 9783110761856
ISBN:: 9783110761740
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschafts-, Organisations- und Industriesoziologie
Fachgebiet:: Politische Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary

A Case Study in Authoritarianism, Culture War and Resistance

Andrew Ryder

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary: A Case Study in Culture War, Authoritarianism and Resistance presents a case study as to how an authoritarian regime like the one in Hungary seeks to tame academic freedom. Andrew Ryder probes the reasons for ideological conflict within the academy through concepts like ‘culture war’ and authoritarian populism. He explores how the Orbán administration has introduced a series of reforms leading to limitations being placed on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Gender Studies no longer being recognized by the State, the relocation of the Central European University because of government pressure and new reforms that ostensibly appear to give universities autonomy but critics assert are in fact changes that will lead to cronyism and pro-government interference in academic freedom.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110749816
ISBN:: 9783110749816
ISBN:: 9783110749588
ISBN:: 9783110749939
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Pädagogik
Fachgebiet:: Bildungspolitik
Fachgebiet:: Pädagogik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

Multidimensional Inequalities

International Perspectives Across Welfare States

Bent Greve

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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Multidimensional Inequalities is a deep dive into the historical contexts and contemporary realities that negatively influence society and its structures. It is often overlooked that inequality is not just about income and wealth but rather a broad spectrum of intersecting factors. This book focuses on each aspect individually, analysing its effect on welfare systems, and informs about the instruments available to reduce inequality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714302
ISBN:: 9783110714302
ISBN:: 9783110714371
ISBN:: 9783110714203
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Volkswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftstheorie, -systeme und -strukturen
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Gesellschaftspolitik, Sozialarbeit, Entwicklungshilfe
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Peace in the Name of Allah

Islamic Discourses on Treaties with Israel

Ofir Winter

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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From Anwar al-Sadat’s dramatic gambit in 1977 to the surprising declaration of the Abraham Accords in 2020, making peace with Israel was always a tough sell for Arab regimes. Through an analysis of hundreds of fatwas, sermons, essays, books, interviews, poems, postage stamps and other media, Peace in the Name of Allah examines how Egyptian, Jordanian, and Emirati political and religious authorities introduced Islamic justifications for peace with Israel, and how those opposed countered them. The discussion demonstrates the flexible and ambiguous nature of revelation-based political discourses; Islam is neither ‘for’ nor ‘against’ peace with Israel – people are, as different Muslim political actors take competing or even contradictory positions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730555
ISBN:: 9783110730555
ISBN:: 9783110730654
ISBN:: 9783110735123
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Politik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Internationale Beziehungen
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Islamische Studien
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

Men Do It Too

Opting Out and In

Ingrid Biese

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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Men Do It Too: Opting Out and In offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of men leaving mainstream careers models, adding to current debates on opting out. The book investigates how globalization, individualization, and this age of high modernity, in addition to issues of masculinity and what it means to be a man in contemporary society and organizational contexts, affect decisions to opt out. Throughout the book, social theory and relevant debates are interwoven with the narratives of 15 men who have left successful careers and mainstream career models to live and work on their own terms: six from the United States, five from Finland, and four from the UK. The narratives help illustrate the issues presented, as well as providing an insight into the men’s identity work throughout their opting out processes. In addition, Biese explores what organizations can learn from the knowledge gathered in her research on men (and women) opting out. This is important in order to create sustainable work environments that not only attract but also retain employees.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110725797
ISBN:: 9783110725797
ISBN:: 9783110724981
ISBN:: 9783110724165
ISBN:: 9783110725902
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Arbeit, Arbeitswelt, Gewerkschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie des Geschlechts und des Körpers
Fachgebiet:: Anthropologie
Fachgebiet:: Kulturanthropologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria

A Political History of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party

Carl C. Yonker

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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The Syrian Social Nationalist Party devoted itself to reviving and unifying the Syrian nation and establishing this nation’s complete independence over its historical homeland, Greater Syria. It continues its struggle today, influencing and shaping Lebanese and Syrian society and politics. Yet, the party remains largely unknown and misunderstood, a condition that stems from the lack of any comprehensive study of it. This book fills this gap.

Syrian nationalism and nationalist movements, generally speaking, have been largely neglected and ignored by historians, scholars, and observers of the Middle East. So, too, has the SSNP. The lack of detailed and nuanced analyses has left significant gaps in the party’s rich history unaddressed and enabled the perpetuation of inaccuracies and misperceptions regarding its past. Given this and the party’s ongoing relevance in Lebanon and Syria, a thorough examination of the early history of the SSNP, the political organization and movement that embodied Syrian nationalism’s most explicit, most cogent expression is even more necessary.

Based on an extensive and thorough examination of Arabic, French, and English primary sources, the monograph is the first comprehensive, systematic history of the SSNP to date, detailing its struggle to fulfill its nationalist vision and establish a secular, independent state in Greater Syria through a thorough analysis of its formation, evolution, and political activities in Lebanon and Syria.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729092
ISBN:: 9783110729092
ISBN:: 9783110728477
ISBN:: 9783111121741
ISBN:: 9783110729146
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Politik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Politische Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Politikwissenschaften, Allgemeines
Fachgebiet:: Innenpolitik, Parteien, andere politische Organisationen
Verlag:: De Gruyter