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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Deconstruction and Democracy -- 1. No Democracy without Deconstruction? -- 2. Deconstruction and Liberal Democracy -- 3. Deconstruction and Radical Democracy -- Part 2: Deconstruction as Political Practice -- 4. Deconstruction and Philosophical Nationalism -- 5. The Politics of Exemplarity: Derrida and Heidegger -- 6. Hospitality and the Cosmopolitical -- Part 3: Politics against Ethics -- 7. Economy of Violence: Derrida and Levinas -- 8. Against Community -- Part 4: Deconstruction and Depoliticization -- 9. The Spectrality of Politics -- 10. Depoliticization and Repoliticization -- 11. The Politics of Spectrality -- 12. Deconstruction and Depoliticization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Raymond Hinnebusch is Professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics at the University of St. Andrews.

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"The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing Parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe's insights deepen our understanding of the complexity of political institutions. She reveals how elected politicians navigate relationships by forging alliances and thwarting opponents; parliamentary buildings are constructed as sites of work, debate and the nation in miniature; and politicians and officials engage with hierarchies, continuity and change. This book also proposes how to study parliaments through an anthropological lens while in conversation with other disciplines. The dive into ethnographies from across Europe, the US, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa demolishes hackneyed geo-political categories and culminates in a new comparative theory about the contradictions in everyday political work. This important book will be of interest to anyone studying parliaments but especially those in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; politics, legal and development studies; and international relations"--

This book presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century. "Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt" explores the country's first postcolonial project, arguing that the enduring afterlives of anticolonial politics, connected to questions of nationalism, military rule, capitalist development and violence, are central to understanding political events in Egypt today. Through an imagined conversation between Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon, two foundational theorists of anti-capitalism and anticolonialism, "Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt" focuses on issues of resistance, revolution, mastery and liberation to show how the Nasserist project, created by Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Free Officers in 1952, remains the only instance of hegemony in modern Egyptian history. In suggesting that Nasserism was made possible through local, regional and global anticolonial politics, even as it reproduced colonial ways of governing that continue to reverberate into Egypt's present, this interdisciplinary study thinks through questions of traveling theory, global politics, and resistance and revolution in the postcolonial world.

"In this innovative book, ten executive politicians with backgrounds in planning from around the world dissect their own political careers. Reflecting on the often structural impact of their work in political decision-making, they also consider the translation of their experiences back into academic life or professional practice. These revealing stories illustrate the vital role of planners in politics. Specific examples show how they were able to make a difference during their tenure by defining problems, setting agendas, using different catalyst for change and raising awareness of issues around sustainability, equity, social justice, poverty and power. Drawing on these experiences to argue for innovative pedagogies and practices in planning, this book illuminates the frequently invisible work of planners in politics, the benefits of their training and education, and the wisdom that they can offer theorists, students and practitioners about transformative planning. This book will be critical reading for researchers and students of spatial planning, urban geography and politics. Urban planners and politicians will also benefit from these insights into the political experience of planning"--

In Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they lack the ability to examine how experience often exceeds the limits of discourse. To address this lack and explain why it matters for feminist politics, Kruks retrieves and employs aspects of postwar French existential theory—a tradition that, she argues, postmodernism has obscured by militantly rejecting its own genealogy.Kruks seeks to refocus our attention on the importance for feminism of embodied and "lived" experiences. Through her original readings of Simone de Beauvoir and other existential thinkers—including Sartre, Fanon, and Merleau-Ponty—and her own analyses inspired by their work, Kruks sheds new light on central problems in feminist theory and politics. These include debates about subjectivity and individual agency; questions about recognition and identity politics; and discussion of whether embodied experiences may sometimes facilitate solidarity among groups of different women

Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' introduction -- SECTION ONE: PROGRESSIVE VALUES AND POLITICS -- Building a good society: an argument for radical hope -- The strange rebirth of free trade and practical economics -- Putting the security back into social security -- Reinventing public services -- Regeneration with imagination -- How will we live in the future? -- Reimagining Britain: a new approach to environmental issues -- No such place as 'abroad': a foreign policy for progressives -- Celebrating the movement of people -- Trade unions: at the heart of a progressive future -- Radical devolution: what the Scottish referendum taught us -- SECTION TWO: MAKING IT HAPPEN -- Rediscovering the soul of progressive politics -- Understanding modern Britain -- Is there a progressive majority? -- Lessons from the Ashdown-Blair 'project' -- Examples of progressives working together -- Lessons from abroad: there is always an alternative -- Is the party over? -- Embracing electoral reform -- Creating the space for change -- The appetite and mechanics for cooperation -- Communicating a new politics -- Conclusion: This is the start of something big! -- Copyright -- Advertisement

1. Opaque texts and transparent contexts : the political difference of Julia Kristeva / Alice Jardine -- 2. Kristeva's delphic proposal : practice encompasses the ethical / Jean Graybeal -- 3. Julia Kristeva : take two / Jacqueline Rose -- 4. Kristeva and Levinas : mourning, ethics, and the feminine / Ewa Ziarek -- 5. Identification with the divided mother : Kristeva's ambivalence / Allison Weir -- 6. Renaissance paintings and psychoanalysis : Julia Kristeva and the function of the mother / Mary Bittner Wiseman -- 7. Abject strangers : toward an ethics of respect / Noelle Mcafee -- 8. National abjects : Julia Kristeva on the process of political self-id / Norma Claire Moruzzi -- 9. Des Chinoises : orientalism, psychoanalysis, and feminine writing / Lisa Lowe -- 10. The body politics of Julia Kristeva / Judith Butler -- 11. Kristeva's politics of change : tracking essentialism with the help of a sex/gender map / Tina Chanter -- 12. Toward a feminist postmodern Polethique : Kristeva on ethics and politics / Marilyn Edelstein -- 13. Trans-positions of difference : Kristeva and post-structuralism / Tilottama Rajan -- 14. Transgression in theory : genius and the subject of La Revolution du langage poetique / Suzanne Guerlac.

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Scholars have done a great deal to unpack the motivations sitting behind nationalists' appropriation of Holocaust-related memory laws in several eastern European and Baltic states. While these accounts have shed important light on memory politics, there remains much scope for further study. For example, several Eastern European and Baltic states have passed resolutions recognizing the Armenian genocide, as well. Furthermore, the existing literature does not provide any analytical tools to conceptualize the dynamic and complex processes giving rise to memory laws. This article broadens the memory laws scholarship through an original analysis of Latvia's Armenian genocide recognition resolution of 2021. The findings highlight how diverse actors support and pass memory laws through a process of constructivist memory politics. Constructivist memory politics involves the strategies political actors employ to change the salience or meaning of historical events in the creation and promotion of memory laws. Although the analysis focuses on a single case, it provides the analytical tools to reorient how scholars approach memory laws both in Europe and elsewhere.

AbstractMigration research has mainly focused on micro and macro level actors. Less research has focused on the meso‐level of organizations as actors influencing migration related processes. However, since modern societies are organizational societies and organizations are omnipresent in all spheres of daily life, their importance for migration issues should not be underestimated.Addressing this gap within migration research, the purpose of the following article is to apply a perspective of organization sociology to changes in migration politics. Referring to the German case with recent fundamental changes in migration politics, this article traces which roles organizations played in that process. It is assumed that they do institutional work (Lawrence & Suddaby, ), which means that they disrupt and change existing (migration related) institutions and politics. First, it gives insights into how existing institutions and thought patterns have been disrupted and reconstructed by (economic) organizations. Several strategies are observable. These include creating coalitions, advocacy, and social persuasion by introducing narratives which are alarming, morally compelling and convincing.

In line with contemporary political and sociological research on science and regulation, this article problematizes the notion of 'scientific evidence' as something independent from and prior to political values. The production of scientific or technical criteria supporting regulatory politics is referred to as 'regulatory science' in the fields of policy studies and the sociology of science and technology. Evidence-bases are an example of regulatory science and they illustrate the latter's intimate relation with political values. I will briefly outline how evidence-bases are not a neutral basis for politics, but that they are constructed through politics and interested groups. Taking the European health claims debate as an example, I show that there exists no unitary notion of evidence, but a confrontation of two scientific frameworks, supported by different expert networks, and proposing different conceptions of what scientific 'evidence' is. In regulatory matters, scientific evidence alone cannot settle disputes once and for all because the evidence is precisely what's at stake. ; Peer reviewed

International audience ; What do we mean by Archaeology's politics of vision? The scientific discipline gives us a way to understand and see the past in the present. It produces knowledge about ancient times and creates the material objects which stand for what we know about it. This chapter discusses two techniques, namely the site report and the museum, which facilitate the materialization of the past in order to reflect on the politics of archaeology in the context of a development and dam project in Southeastern Turkey. Site reports and museums, two specific practices that help us visualize the past, I argue, both have effects on 1. Knowledge: they produce scientific facts about the past; and 2. Power: they "intervene" (Abu El-Haj 2001 following Hacking 1983) in the wider social and political realms. Focusing on both science and politics, the paper, in the end, draws attention to the mechanisms behind the production of archaeology's body of knowledge as well as the effects this body of knowledge and its material forms have in society.