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The Caribbean stage -- Geographies of opportunity, geographies of constraint / David Barker -- Contemporary Caribbean ecologies: the weight of history / Duncan McGregor -- The earliest settlers / Antonio Curet -- Old world precedents: sugar and slavery in the Mediterranean / William D. Phillips Jr -- The making of a colonial sphere -- The columbian moment: politics, ideology, and biohistory / Reinaldo Funes Monzote -- From tainos to Africans in the Caribbean: labor, migration, and resistance / Jalil Sued-Badillo -- Negotiations of conquest / Lynne A. Guitar -- Toward sugar and slavery / Stephan Palmié -- Masterless people: maroons, pirates, and commoners / Isaac Curtis -- Colonial designs in flux -- The Caribbean between empires: colonists, pirates, and slaves / Josep M. Fradera -- Imperial decline, colonial adaptation: the Spanish islands during the long 17th century / Francisco A. Scarano -- The Atlantic framework of 17th-century colonization / Alison Games -- Servants and slaves during the 17th-century sugar revolution / Hilary Mcd. Beckles -- The French and Dutch Caribbean, 1600-1800 / Philip Boucher -- Slaves and tropical commodities: the Caribbean in the south Atlantic system / Selwyn H. H. Carrington and Ronald C. Noel -- Capitalism, slavery, and revolution -- Slave cultures: systems of domination and forms of resistance / Philip Morgan -- Rivalry, war, and imperial reform in the 18th-century Caribbean / Douglas Hamilton -- The Haitian revolution / Laurent Dubois -- The abolition of slavery in the non-hispanic Caribbean / Diana Paton -- Econocide?: from abolition to emancipation in the British and French Caribbean / Dale Tomich -- Missionaries, planters, and slaves in the age of abolition / Jean Besson -- A reordered world -- A second slavery? the 19th-century sugar revolutions in Cuba and Puerto Rico / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- Peasants, immigrants, and workers: the British and French Caribbean after emancipation / Gad Heuman -- War and nation building: Cuban and Dominican experiences / Robert Whitney -- The rise of the American Mediterranean, 1846-1905 / Luis Martínez-Fernández -- The conundrum of race: retooling inequality / Elizabeth Cooper -- Africa, Europe, and Asia in the making of the 20th-century Caribbean / Aisha Khan -- The new empire -- Building US hegemony in the Caribbean / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- The American sugar kingdom, 1898-1934 / César J. Ayala -- Culture, labor, and race in the shadow of US capital / Winston James -- Labor protests, rebellions, and the rise of nationalism during depression and war / O. Nigel Bolland -- Toward decolonization: impulses, processes, and consequences since the 1930s / Anne S. Macpherson -- The Caribbean and the cold war: between reform and revolution / David Sheinin -- The Caribbean in the age of globalization -- The long Cuban revolution / Michael Zeuske -- Independence and its aftermath: Suriname, Trinidad, and Jamaica / Anthony P. Maingot -- The colonial persuasion: Puerto Rico and the Dutch and French Antilles / Humberto García Muñiz -- An island in the mirror: the Dominican Republic and Haiti / Pedro L. San Miguel -- Tourism, drugs, offshore finance, and the perils of neoliberal development / Robert Goddard -- Caribbean migrations and diasporas / Christine M. Du Bois

Introduction : new imperial histories / Stephen Howe -- Part 1: Promoting and explaining 'new imperial history' -- The colonial situation : a theoretical approach / George Balandier -- Rules of thumb : British history and 'imperial culture' in ninettenth- and twentieth-century Britain / Antoinette Burton -- Provincializing Europe : postcoloniality and the critique of history / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Part 2: Intellectual battles and exchanges -- Postcolonial studies and the study of history / Frederick Cooper -- Coda : the burden of the past / Nicholas Dirks -- Shoot them to be sure / Richard Gott -- Part 3: Influences from anthropology and psychoanalysis -- Colonialism and Its forms of knowledge . the British in India / Bernard Cohn -- The psychology of colonialism : sex, age and ideology in British India / Ashis Nandy -- Part 4: Imperial cultures as global networks -- Imperial networks : creating identities in nineteenth-century South Africa and Britain / Alan Lester -- Mapping the British world / Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich -- The roots of colonial intellectual life / Philip S. Zachernuk -- Part 5: Feminism, gender studies, histories of the body -- Carnal knowledge and imperial power : race and the intimate in colonial rule / Ann Laura Stoler -- Thinking back : gender misrecognition and Polynesian subversions aboard the Cook voyages / Kathleen Wilson -- Part 6: Ecological history -- The colonial state and the origins of Western environmentalism / Richard H. Grove -- Retrospectives on socio-environmental history and socio-environmental justice / Nancy J. Jacobs -- Part 7: Racial imaginings -- Knowledge, empire, globalization / Tony Ballantyne -- Slower than a massacre : the multiple sources of racial thought in colonial Africa / Jonathon Glassman -- The imperial working class makes itself 'White' : White Labourism in Britain, Australia, and South Africa before the First World War / Jonathan Hyslop -- Part 8: The impact of colonialism's cultures on metropoles -- The persistence of empire in metropolitan culture / John M. Mackenzie -- 'There'll always be an England' : representations of colonial wars and immigration, 1948-1968 / Wendy Webster -- The language of imperialism and the meanings of empire / Andrew S. Thompson -- Part 9: Colonialism's afterlives -- Has it come to this? / Paul Gilroy -- Claudia Jones and the West Indian Gazette : reflections on the emergence of postcolonial Britain / Bill Schwarz -- Part 10: Africa and The Caribbean -- Haiti, history, and the Gods / Joan Dayan -- Modern Blackness : what we are and what we hope to be / Deborah A. Thomas -- Re-introducing the 'people without history ': African historiographies / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo -- Part 11: Other empires, other histories -- 'They live in a state of nomadism and savagery' : the late Ottoman Empire and the postcolonial debate / Selim Deringil -- La République Métissée : citizenship, colonialism, and the borders of French history / Laurent Dubois -- Part 12: New histories, new empires -- and the 'colonial present' -- Imperialism, liberalism and the quest for perpetual peace / Anthony Pagden -- Empire after globalisation / Partha Chatterjee.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. introduction -- The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies -- Defining Popular Culture -- II. self -- Daytime Utopias: If You Lived in Pine Valley, You'd Be Home -- Cardboard Patriarchy: Adult Baseball Card Collecting and the Nostalgia for a Presexual Past -- Virgins for Jesus: The Gender Politics of Therapeutic Christian Fundamentalist Media -- "Do We Look Like Ferengi Capitalists to You?" Star Trek's Klingons as Emergent Virtual American Ethnics -- The Empress's New Clothing? Public Intellectualism and Popular Culture -- "My Beautiful Wickedness": The Wizard of Oz as Lesbian Fantasy -- III. Maker -- "Ceci N'est Pas une Jeune Fille": Videocams, Representation, and "Othering" in the Worlds of Teenage Girls -- "No Matter How Small": The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss -- An Auteur in the Age of the Internet: JMS, Babylon 5, and the Net -- "I'm a Loser Baby": Zines and the Creation of Underground Identity -- IV. Performance -- "Anyone Can Do It": Forging a Participatory Culture in Karaoke Bars -- Watching Wrestling / Writing Performance -- Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity," and the Discourse of Camp -- "They Dig Her Message": Opera, Television, and the Black Diva -- How to Become a Camp Icon in Five Easy Lessons: Fetishism—and Tallulah Bankhead's Phallus -- V. Taste -- "It Will Get a Terrific Laugh": On the Problematic Pleasures and Politics of Holocaust Humor -- The Sound of Disaffection -- Corruption, Criminality, and the Nickelodeon -- "Racial Cross-Dressing" in the Jazz Age: Cultural Therapy and Its Discontents in Cabaret Nightlife -- The Invisible Burlesque Body of La Guardia's New York -- Quarantined! A Case Study of Boston's Combat Zone -- VI. Change -- On Thrifting -- Shopping Sense: Fanny Fern and Jennie June on Consumer Culture in the Nineteenth Century -- Navigating Myst-y Landscapes: Killer Applications and Hybrid Criticism -- The Rules of the Game: Evil Dead II . . . Meet Thy Doom -- Seeing in Black and White: Gender and Racial Visibility from Gone with the Wind to Scarlett -- VII. Home -- "The Last Truly British People You Will Ever Know": Skinheads, Pakis, and Morrissey -- Finding One's Way Home: I Dream of Jeannie and Diasporic Identity -- As Canadian as Possible . . . : Anglo-Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other -- Wheels of Fortune: Nation, Culture, and the Tour de France -- Narrativizing Cyber-Travel: CD-ROM Travel Games and the Art of Historical Recovery -- Hotting, Twocking, and Indigenous Shipping: A Vehicular Theory of Knowledge in Cultural Studies -- VIII. emotion -- "Ain't I de One Everybody Come to See?!" Popular Memories of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Stress Management Ideology and the Other Spaces of Women's Power -- "Have You Seen This Child?" From Milk Carton to Mise-en-Abıˆme -- Introducing Horror -- About the Contributors -- Name Index

Grenzen strukturieren nicht nur die Ordnung von Landschaft und Herrschaft, sondern auch von Gesellschaft. Als soziale Konstrukte vereindeutigen sie Zustände, öffnen aber auch Räume für Aushandlungen und Überschreitungen. In der Moderne dienten praktische und metaphorische "Grenzgänge" dazu, Beziehungen, die Verhältnisse gesellschaftlicher Teilsysteme und die Reichweite von Normen zu klären. Die Beiträger*innen schauen auf die Denkfigur des "Grenzgangs", die es ermöglicht, zentrale Fragen moderner Gesellschaften zusammenzudenken: Gewaltvolle Identitätskämpfe, der Umgang mit funktionaler Differenzierung und mit der Fragilität von Werten und Wissen offenbaren sich als Praktiken, mit denen Grenzen gezogen, überquert oder ausgehandelt wurden.

Die Bedeutung der religiös-weltanschaulichen Neutralität (Unparteilichkeit) des Staats, eines Eckpfeilers des Religionsverfassungsrechts, ist erstaunlicherweise immer noch sehr umstritten und wird vielfach missachtet. Der Band reduziert den bisher überfrachteten Neutralitätsbegriff auf Rechtsgleichheit und Nichtidentifikation, wobei er die strikte Einhaltung des Verbots selbst geringer einseitiger religiös-weltanschaulicher Beeinflussung fordert. Er erörtert in kritischer Sicht das Verhältnis von trennenden und kooperativen Aspekten des Grundgesetzes sowie zahlreiche Einzelfragen wie offene und distanzierende oder Begründungs- und Wirkungsneutralität. Diese oft diffizilen Fragen seien bereichsbezogen im Vorfeld der Entscheidung zu klären. Die Schlussentscheidung über die Einhaltung der Gleichheits-Rechtsregel unter Berücksichtigung all dieser auch flexiblen Aspekte ist dann endgültig. Entweder ist eine Entscheidung oder Norm neutral oder nicht. Neutralität ist nicht nur ein objektives Verfassungsprinzip, das wie etwa das Sozialstaatsprinzip nur eine allgemeine Leitlinie darstellt, sondern als Gleichheitsbegriff eine an das Grundgesetz angebundene Rechtsregel (Norm).

Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century Civil Religion, a term made popular by sociologist Robert Bellah a little over fifty years ago, describes how people might share in a sacred sense of their nation. While hotly debated, the idea continues to enjoy wide application among academics and journalists. Bellah used civil religion to make sense of the turmoil of the 1960s, especially moral debates provoked by the Vietnam War. Now, a half-century later, American society is again riven by conflict over immigration, economic inequality, racial oppression, and "culture wars" issues. Is Bellah's hopeful assessment still useful for understanding contemporary America? If not, how should we think of it differently?Civil Religion Today reassesses the term to take stock of its usefulness after fifty years of engagement in the field. Looking both at the concept and at ground-level studies of how we might find civil religion in practice, this book aims to push the conversation forward, considering how and in what ways it is helpful in our current social and political context, evaluating which parts are worth keeping, which can be reformulated, and which can now be usefully discarded. It suggests we go "beyond Bellah" in theory and practice, thinking about American society in a new century

Karl Marx' (1818-1883) Polemiken gegen das »Genie bürgerlicher Dummheit« Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) sind weithin bekannt. Gegenstand seiner strategischen Attacken war jedoch weniger die Person Bentham selbst, sondern vielmehr die bürgerliche Marktgläubigkeit der Zeit, zu dessen Stammvater er Bentham als »Urphilister« stilisierte. Jenseits seiner Polemik kam Marx aber tatsächlich zu einer ambivalenten Einschätzung von Benthams Utilitarismus. Beim systematischen Vergleich beider Autoren und deren Kritik an anti-demokratischen Zuständen deckt Gregor Ritschel viele gemeinsame Themen und Gedanken auf, die zusammengenommen eine neue, komplementäre Lesart zulassen.

This book looks at the important issues in British politics since 1945, including a brief guide to the changing political culture of Britain in that period. It will be essential reading for all students studying politics at A2 level, as it covers all the important issues required by the main examining boards. Neil McNaughton is a seasoned writer at this level. He begins by reviewing the changing nature of the principal political ideologies - Conservatism, Labourism and Liberalism - before discussing how these ideological changes impact generally on policy developments in the UK. Having described the changing nature of the political culture, addressing partisan dealignment, changing morality, the decline of religion and class fragmentation, he examines, on a chapter by chapter basis, the key issues of British politics today: the economy, the welfare state, law and order, race relations, the particular problems affecting Northern Ireland, devolution, constitutional reform, rights, the environment, issues of gender and sexual orientation, European integration and the European Union, the impact of the European Union on Britain, ending with a brief summary of the issues that are likely to take centre stage in British politics in the first decade of the new century. Written in an accessible style, with helpful features such as summaries, definitions, tables and boxes to illuminate the points made, this book is urgently needed as students grapple with the issues thrown up by the new examinations.