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Taking Achille Mbembe's theory of the grotesque as a starting point, this article examines how a series of contemporary Algerian novels deploy an aesthetic of the grotesque to contest and deconstruct the operation of State power in Algeria. The article shows how three writers of the post-civil war period (Habib Ayyoub, Salim Bachi and Mustapha Benfodil) engage in distinct yet related ways with representations of the grotesque and the obscene in a renewed effort to break out of a state of false consciousness that renders citizens and observers complicit with the structures of power in place. The article argues that one of the reasons Mbembe's landmark essay is so important to the situation now faced by Algerian artists, writers and civil society, is because it helps us to see the failure of the grotesque as a contestatory aesthetic and hence provides new insight into the spectacle of power at work in Algerian society and politics.

US firms have long since recognized the economic necessity of expanding their market overseas; however instead of adopting cross‐cultural management strategies used by their European and Asian counterparts, US firms proceed with an ethnocentric or geocentric viewpoint. Provides an outline of EuroDisney as an ethnocentric example and lists cultural mistakes; supplies McDonald's Moscow experience as a famous geocentric example and outlines cultural challenges. Illustrates several connected realities which managers should acknowledge and expresses the view that cross‐cultural management affairs cannot be explained by economic methods.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: A Life Remembered -- 1. Sorokin's Life and Work -- 2. Sorokin Remembered -- 3. The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on "Puritanism, Pietism, and Science," 1933-34 -- Part II: Sorokin as Gadfly -- 4. Snakes and Ladders: Parsons and Sorokin at Harvard -- 5. Sorokin and American Sociology: The Dynamics of a Moral Career in Science -- 6. Sorokin's Challenge to Modernity -- Part III: Sorokin's Methodology -- 7. Sorokin's Methodology: Integralism as the Key -- 8. Sorokin as Dialectician -- 9. Sorokin's Concept of Immanent Change -- 10. Civilizational Worldview as an Aggregate of Intuitions -- Part IV: Applying Sorokin's Theories -- 11. Sorokin versus Toynbee on Civilization -- 12. Applying Sorokin's Typology -- 13. An Empirical Assessment of Sorokin's Theory of Change -- 14. A Study of Generational Fluctuations in Philosophical Beliefs -- 15. Sorokin's Vision of Altruistic Love as a Bridge to Human Consensus -- 16. Transitions, Revolutions, and Wars -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index