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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Studying the Relationship Between Parties and Democracy -- Parties and Democracy: Not a Straightforward Relationship -- Puzzles from the Real World and from the Political Science View -- The Novelty of the Book and the Thesis -- Research Questions -- Research Approach -- Selection of Slovenia as Case Study -- Outline of the Book -- References -- 2 Political Thought on Democracy Related to Political Parties -- Theories of Democracy -- Liberal Thought and Parties -- Theoretical Adaptations to the Real-Life Phenomena of Political Parties -- Empirical Liberalism and an Operational Definition of Liberal Democracy -- Illiberal vs Liberal Democracy -- A Variety of Other Democratic Ideals in the Frame of a Nation State After the Second World War -- Transnational Democracy and the European Union as a Regional Political System -- Cosmopolitan Democracy -- References -- 3 Relations Between Democracy and Parties -- Varieties of Democracy and Varieties of Parties -- Western Lenses -- Variety of Relationships Between Political Parties and Democracy -- Parties and Other Factors of Democratic Transitions and Consolidation of Democracy -- Parties and Other Factors of Democratic Backsliding and Democracy's Failure -- Illiberal Abuse of Democracy and Autocratization -- References -- 4 Party System Characteristics and Challenges to Democracy -- Introduction -- Party System and Party Institutionalization -- Party System Institutionalization -- Individual Party Institutionalization -- Party and Party System Institutionalization in Relation to Democracy -- Party System Stabilization as a Dimension of Institutionalization -- Government Formation and Party System Closure -- Government Formation and Democracy.

Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Editors -- List of Call Out Boxes -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture: Opportunities and Quandaries -- References -- Part I: Theories and Foundations: Ethics, Urban Agriculture, and Planning -- Chapter 2: Theories and Foundations: Ethics, Urban Agriculture, and Planning -- References -- Chapter 3: The Food System: A Stranger to the Planning Field -- 3.1 Most Planning Literature Ignores Food Issues -- 3.2 A Survey of 22 Planning Agencies -- 3.3 Reasons for Limited Attention -- 3.4 The Importance of Food System Issues -- 3.5 How Can Planners Strengthen the Food System? -- 3.5.1 Compile Data on the Community Food System -- 3.5.2 Analyze Connections Between Food and Other Planning Concerns -- 3.5.3 Assess the Impact of Current Planning on the Local Food System -- 3.5.4 Integrate Food Security into Community Goals -- 3.5.5 Educate Future Planners About Food System Issues -- 3.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: "Farming Inside Cities" - A Look Back After Two Decades -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Objectives of Farming Inside Cities -- 4.2.1 Value Capture -- 4.2.2 Redefinition of Policy Maker -- 4.3 Urban Agriculture in the Late 1990s -- 4.4 Concurrent Urban Agriculture Research -- 4.5 Research and Writing, Theory and Advocacy -- 4.6 Outcomes of the Study -- 4.7 Looking Back After Two Decades -- References -- Chapter 5: Urban Agriculture as a Public Good: Valuing Farming and Gardening in Philadelphia and Chicago -- 5.1 Urban Agriculture Research and Practice: Visions and Values -- 5.2 Philadelphia -- 5.3 Chicago -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice: A Review of the Literature.

Intro -- On the Series -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Exiles -- 2 Mahoma Mwaungulu: Ethnography of an Intra-German Expulsion -- 3 Asaph Makote Mohlala: "I had to Fight my Way Back" -- 4 Epilogue: African Exiles and the Awkward Figure of the Refugee -- 5 Conclusions: Post-revolutionary Spaces in Search of Approval -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Ladies in Arms. An Introduction -- 1. Frida Kahlo at the Gun Shop -- 2. Armed Women and Popular Feminism -- 3. Theorizing the Gunwoman: The Firearm between Prosthesis and Accessory -- 4. Representations of Shooting Women in Contemporary Popular Culture -- Works Cited -- Section I: History Reloaded? Reinventing Military and Paramilitary Shooters -- The Difference between a Shooting and an Armed Woman -- 1. Faces of the Paris Commune -- 2. The Stereotype of Louise Michel as »a Shooting Woman« -- 3. Contemporary Representations of Louise Michel as »an Armed Woman« -- 3.1 Louise Michel's Republicanization in Georges et Louise -- 3.2 Louise Michel's Goes Bourgeois in Le temps des cerises -- 3.3 Louise Michel's Privatization in Louise Michel. Non à l'exploitation -- 4. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Re‑Arming an American Heroine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Larger‐than‐Life? Harriet Tubman on Underground -- 3. »To Be Young, Gifted, and Black«: Harriet -- 4. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Armed Resistance and Femininity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sincerity, Guilt, and Confession: The Testimonios -- 3. Fictionalization and Testimonio as Part of Memory Culture -- 4. The Depiction of Guns and Gun Violence -- 5. The Representation of Female Sexuality -- 6. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- The Limits of Empowerment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Lure of the Military -- 3. The Failure of the Military -- 4. The Gun as Corruptor -- 5. Solidarity with the Other -- 6. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Section II: Violent Societies: Civic Gun Cultures, Gender, and Politics -- ›Don't Retreat, Reload‹ -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gunning for Congress: Women of the Republican Party, Political Advertisements, and Guns -- 3. Pearls, Pumps, and Pistols: Rugged Femininity in Republican Women Candidates' Political Ads.

The volume focuses on how modernity has also been a struggle for access to public spaces, and non-institutional spaces like teashops, markets, public roads, temple grounds, reading-rooms and libraries have all been crucial to how political culture was shaped, and how dominant hegemonies-caste, class or capital-have been challenged

In A Century of Anarchy?: War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order, Simon challenges the German Sonderweg understanding of the nineteenth century and deconstructs the myth of the 'free right to go to war', drawing on political and normative discourses to outline a genealogy of modern war justifications.

Autorenverzeichnis -- Vorwort -- Einleitung: Religion in Japan. Einführende Darstellung und religionssoziologische Überlegungen zu ihrer Aktualität -- Polymythie und Monomythie um 1800 – und welche Schlüsse man daraus vielleicht ziehen könnte: für Kunst, Kultur, Gesellschaft und Politik -- Der eine und die vielen Götter. Religionspolitische Diskurse in Japan und Europa um 1800 (und heute) -- Sind die kami übersetzbar? – Überlegungen zu Jan Assmanns 'Kosmotheismus' und dem politischen Shintō der Neuzeit und Moderne -- Wie unterstützte die Mythenforschung den Kolonialismus? – Japan als polytheistischer Kolonialstaat -- Yakumo – Lafcadio Hearn und der religiöse Nationalismus im Japan der ausgehenden Meiji-Zeit.