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Navigating science and technology in Bangalore -- Religious science and the building of a nation -- Nationalism and the political enchantment of technology -- Hindu icons, images, and rituals in scientific spaces -- India's transhumanist landscapes -- Reinventing religion, reimagining science

"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show - already regarded as the "the leading light" of the burgeoning white nationalist movement. "We can infiltrate," Derek once told a crowd of white nationalists. "We can take the country back." Then he went to college. Derek had been home-schooled by his parents, steeped in the culture of white supremacy, and he had rarely encountered diverse perspectives or direct outrage against his beliefs. At New College of Florida, he continued to broadcast his radio show in secret each morning, living a double life until a classmate uncovered his identity and sent an email to the entire school. "Derek Black...white supremacist, radio host...New College student???" The ensuing uproar overtook one of the most liberal colleges in the country. Some students protested Derek's presence on campus, forcing him to reconcile for the first time with the ugliness his beliefs. Other students found the courage to reach out to him, including an Orthodox Jew who invited Derek to attend weekly Shabbat dinners. It was because of those dinners--and the wide-ranging relationships formed at that table--that Derek started to question the science, history and prejudices behind his worldview. As white nationalism infiltrated the political mainstream, Derek decided to confront the damage he had done. Rising Out of Hatred tells the story of how white-supremacist ideas migrated from the far-right fringe to the White House through the intensely personal saga of one man who eventually disavowed everything he was taught to believe, at tremendous personal cost. With great empathy and narrative verve, Eli Saslow asks what Derek's story can tell us about America's increasingly divided nature. This is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another"--

Der Autor schildert die wesentlichen Elemente, die die europäische Krise bestimmen: Flüchtlinge; soziale Verwerfungen Nord-Süd; nationalistische Tendenzen in Ungarn, Polen; Brexit; Le Pen, Wilders ...; Globalisierungsängste; "America First". Er berichtet detailliert und mit viel Insiderwissen aus den einzelnen Hauptstädten von Berlin bis Washington D.C. Seiner Auffassung nach liegt es vor allem an Deutschland, den drohenden Niedergang Europas abzuwenden. Deutschland müsse dafür endlich seine "bequeme Rolle als pazifistische Handelsnation" ablegen, um im Verbund mit Frankreich, er setzt grosse Hoffnungen in Merkel und Macron, die Führungsrolle anzunehmen. Die Wahlen 2017 in Deutschland und Grossbritannien sind noch nicht berücksichtigt. Das gut lesbare Buch ist weniger Analyse denn Zustandsbeschreibung mit erhellendem Blick hinter die Kulissen und aufklärenden Bemerkungen zu manchen politischen Entscheidungen. (2-3)

El ensayo en dialogo, hacia una lectura densa del ensayo / Liliana Weinberg -- Lecturas errantes y cartografias criticas / Ana Cecilia Olmos -- Tres escenas del ensayo hispanoamericano de fin y de cambio de siglo / Rita de Grandis -- Hacia un ensayo transhispanico en dos filosofos espanoles exiliados en Mexico / R. Lane Kauffmann -- Memoria e identidad transnacional en Delirio y destino (1989) de Maria Zambrano / Inmaculada Plaza-Agudo -- El ensayo transnacional: Ernesto Volkening en Eco, un caso de mediacion cultural -- Kathrin Seidl

Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear definition of Arab nationalism, even as a subject of scholarly inquiry, does not yet exist. 'Arab Nationalism' sheds light on cultural expressions of Arab Nationalism and the sometimes contradictory meanings attached to it in the process of identity formation in the modern world. It presents nationalism as an experiencable set of identity markers - in stories, visual culture, narratives of memory and struggles with ideology, sometimes in culturally sophisticated forms, sometimes in utterly vulgar forms of expression. Drawing upon various case studies, the book transcends a conventional history that reduces nationalism in the Arab lands to a pattern of political rise and decline. It offers a glimpse at ways in which Arabs have constructed an identifiable shared national culture, and it critically dissects conceptions about Arab nationalism as an easily graspable secular and authoritarian ideology modelled on Western ideas and visions of modernity. This book offers an entirely new portrayal of nationalism and a crucial update to the field, and as such, is indispensable reading for students, scholars and policymakers looking to gain a deeper understanding of nationalism in the Arab world.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 From Empire to Nation: The Bounding of the Chinese Geo-body -- Part I: Strategies of Political Intervention -- 2 Borderlands of State Power: The Nationalists and the Frontier Question -- 3 Domesticating Minzu: The Communists and the National Question -- Part II: Narratives of Cultural Innovation -- 4 From the Yellow Emperor to Peking Man: The Nationalists and the Construction of Zhonghua minzu -- 5 Han Man's Burden: The Communists and the Construction of Zhonghua minzu -- Conclusion

"Study of the ongoing political and economic restructuring of Spain and relationship between central and regional authorities and the place of the Basque Country in Spain and Europe within debates on internal processes that shaped Spanish nation- and state-building, and the post-Franco restructuring within global economic restructuring and the political restructuring of Europe"--