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History, culture, and everyday life. The Mariinsko Sergievskii Shelter for Converted Jewish Children in St. Petersburg / Chae Ran Y. Freeze -- Yiddish in imperial Russia's civil society / Gennady Estraikh -- Ansky in Liozno: "Sins of Youth" and the archival diary / Gabriella Safran -- In the evil kingdom of things: Sholem-Aleichem and the writing of everyday life in Jewish literature / Olga Litvak -- A paper life: model letters and real letters as a key to Russian-Jewish aspirations at the turn of the twentieth century / Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman -- Upheaval, violence, and antisemitism. Violence and the migration of Ashkenazi Jews to Eastern Europe / Shaul Stampfer -- Uses and abuses: "pogrom" in the Anglo-American imagination, 1881 - 1919 / Sam Johnson -- Jews in the East European borderlands. Look! Up there in the sky: it's a vulture, it's a bat . . . It's a Jew. Reflections on antisemitism in late imperial Russia, 1906 - 1914 / Robert Weinberg -- Shots in the back: on the origin of the Anti-Jewish pogroms of 1918 - 1921/ Oleg Budnitskii -- Between external persecution and national renaissance : Simon Dubnow's lachrymose vision of Russian-Jewish History / Joshua M. Karlip -- Soviet Holocaust photography and landscapes of emptiness / David Shneer -- Transformed myths in verse: Boris Slutsky's three Holocaust poems and the question of violence / Marat Grinberg

Citizenship, moral education and the English elementary school / Susannah Wright -- Elite education and the development of mass elementary schooling in England, 1870-1930 / Heather Ellis -- Faith and nationhood: church, state and the provision of schooling in Ireland, 1870-1930 / Deirdre Raftery and Martina Relihan -- From the Zwergschule (one-room schoolhouse) to the comprehensive school: German elementary schools in imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, 1870-1930 / Gunilla Budde -- Schools are society's salvation: the state and mass education in France, 1870-1930 / Jean-François Chanet -- Russia and the Soviet Union: schooling, citizenship, and the reach of the state, 1870-1945 / Ben Eklof -- "To become good members of civil society and patriotic Americans": mass education in the United States, 1870-1930 / Ellen Berg -- Primary education and the construction of citizenship in Brazil, 1870-1930: progress and tensions / Maria Cristina Soares de Gouvea and Alessandra Frota Schueller -- The role of mass education in nation building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870-1930 / Nazan Cicek -- "Education for every son and daughter of South Africa": race, class and the compulsory education debate in the Cape Colony / S. E. Duff -- India's trials with citizenship, modernisation, and nationhood / Nita Kumar

1. The transnationality of cities : concepts, dimensions and research fields : an introduction / Stefan Kratke, Kathrin Wildner and Stephan Lanz -- 2. Transnationality and the city / Nina Glick Schiller -- 3. Cities of the global south in the context of transnational urbanism and international development policies / Hans Harms -- 4. Transnational planning : reconfiguring spaces and institutions / Clara Irazabal -- 5. Conceptualizing transnational urban spaces : multicentered agency, placeless organizational logics, and the built environment / Christof Parnreiter -- 6. Materializing the digital commodity : recording studios in transnational project networks of digital musical production / Allan Watson and Michael Hoyler -- 7. Global capitalism and the informal economy : a methodological approach to the complex incorporation of Mexican cities into the globalized markets / Sandra Alarcon -- 8. The return of the local? : anglicization, transnationalism, and religion in the global city / John Eade -- 9. Small-town transnationalism : socio-spatial dynamics of immigration to the heartland / Faranak Miraftab -- 10. Challenging heteronomous power in a globalized world : insurgent spatial practices, "militant particularism", and multiscalarity / Marcelo Lopes de Souza -- 11. Move from and not on the occult zone (where the people dwell) : an argument for the political priority of solidarity with popular (and largely situated) mobilization by the poor over transnational organization by civil society / Richard Pithouse.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I - Peace: But What Kind of Peace? -- 1. How has the Liberal Peace served Afghanistan? - Chrissie Hirst -- 2. The obstacles to sustainable peace and democracy in post-independent Kosovo - Gëzim Visoka -- 3. Ethnicity, ethnic conflicts and secessionism in Ethiopian politics - Bezawit Beyene -- Part II - Reconciliation and Dealing with the Past -- 4. State failure and civil society potential: reconciliation in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Verity Mould -- 5. Remembering the past and reconciling for the future: the role of indigenous commemorative practices in Sierra Leone - Steve Kaindeneh -- 6. Decolonization and reconciliation: the colonial dilemma of Canada's residential school apology and restitution - Patricia Elgersma -- Part III - Cultural Processes and Initiatives -- 7. Is 'interreligious' synonymous with 'interfaith'? The roles of dialogue in peacebuilding - Sarah E. Bernstein -- 8. The role of health in building peace: the case of Afghanistan - Wossenyelesh Kifle -- Part IV - Challenges to Peacebuilding and Reconciliation -- 9. The new economy of terror: motivations and driving forces behind contemporary Islamist insurgencies - Peter Keay -- 10. The question of home: refugees and peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict -- 11. Hamas: between militarism and governance - Ibrahim Natil -- 12. Returning home towards a new future: Nepal's reintegration programme for former child soldiers - Dilli Binadi -- References -- Index.

"Disadvantaged by where you live?" distils lessons from work on neighbourhoods carried out within the Cities Research Centre of the University of the West of England over the past seven years. It offers a major contribution to academic debates on the neighbourhood both as a sphere of governance and as a point of public service delivery under New Labour since 1997. The book explores: How 'the neighbourhood' has been used in policy in the UK? What is the 'appropriate contribution' of neighbourhood governance and how does this relate to concepts of multi-level governance? What tensions are visible at the neighbourhood level? And what does this tell us about wider governance issues? The book explores and reflects on the notion of neighbourhood governance from a variety of perspectives that reflect the unique depth and breadth of the Centre's research programme. Neighbourhood governance is examined in relation to: multi-level governance and city-regions; local government; mainstreaming; cross-national differences in neighbourhood policy; community and civil society; diversity; different conceptions of democracy; and, evaluation and learning. In doing so, the book identifies useful conceptual tools for analysing the present and future contribution of policy to neighbourhoods

Population and employment -- Social security -- Economic growth versus environmental degradation -- Anti-poverty campaign: the struggle between equality and efficiency -- Rural land, peasants, and agriculture -- Corruption in contemporary China: an old dilemma with new features -- Educational developments and challenges -- Enterprises, foreign trade, and the financial sector -- Political reform, civil society, media, and international relations. - Truths and Half Truths is aimed at economic and social science academics and students who are interested in the dynamics of China's institutional development and societal transformation. Covering the complexity of the social, economic, and governance reforms behind the economic miracles achieved by China since its reform in 1978, and particularly in the past twenty years, this book provides much needed insight and critical thinking on major aspects of China's reform. Topics include employment, environment, anti-poverty; urbanization and rural development; education, corruption, political regime and media. Readers will be able to re-evaluate the costs and benefits of China's modernization from a point-of-view of sustainability. Written by highly knowledgeable and well respected academics in law and economics with decades of experience in China studiesProvides an insight from academic points of view written in a reader-friendly journalistic styleAn integrated monograph; each chapter addresses a particular area of reform and can be read independently

Kinship in Europe : a new approach to long-term development / David Warren Sabean and Simon Teuscher -- Bringing it all back home : kinship theory in anthropology / Sylvia J. Yanagisako -- Lordship, kinship, and inheritance among the German high nobility in the Middle Ages and early modern period / Karl-Heinz Spiess -- Politics of kinship in the city of Bern at the end of the Middle Ages / Simon Teuscher -- Sisters, aunts, and cousins : familial architectures and the political field in early modern Europe / Michaela Hohkamp -- Political power, inheritance, and kinship relations : the unique features of southern France (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) / Bernard Derouet -- The making of stability : kinship, church, and power among the Rhenish imperial knighthood, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Christophe Duhamelle -- Rights and ties that bind : mothers, children, and the state in Tuscany during the early modern period / Giulia Calvi -- Kinship, marriage, and politics / Gérard Delille -- Kinship and mobility : migrant networks in Europe / Laurence Fontaine -- Kin marriages : trends and interpretations from the Swiss example / Jon Mathieu -- Kinship and gender : property, enterprise, and politics / Elisabeth Joris -- Kinship, civil society, and power in nineteenth-century Vannes / Christopher H. Johnson -- Middle-class kinship in nineteenth-century Hungary / Gábor Gyáni -- Kinship and class dynamics in nineteenth-century Europe / David Warren Sabean.

Legality and legitimacy : the form of the problem. The legal and sociological construction of norms / Blandine Kriegel ; Legality, legitimacy and the circumstances of sociology / Chris Thornhill ; Sociology among the third-order observers in legitimation processes / Pierre Guibentif ; Societal constitutionalism : procedural legality and legitimation in global and civil society / David Sciulli ; The critique of instrumental reason : between normative and sociological approaches to legitimate law / Darrow Schecter -- Legitimacy as a problem in international law : critical and cosmopolitan approaches. Legitimacy in global and international law : a sociological critique / Inger-Johanne Sand ; Cosmopolitanism and democratic freedom / Hauke Brunkhorst ; Political argument and the legitimacy of international law : a case of distorted modernization / Robert Fine ; Saving cosmopolitanism? Legality without legitimacy / Costas Douzinas ; Post-colonial legality and legitimacy : the challenge of indigenous people / Gavin W. Anderson ; From legitimacy to legality : the problem of the global legal form / Kirsten Campbell -- Legitimacy as an institutional problem. Legality and legitimacy in the European Union / William Outhwaite ; From Philadelphia to Vitoria via Bonn? Why there is no constitutional patriotism in the Basque Country / Andreas Hess ; The necessary secularism of legitimate authority / David Saunders ; Legitimation in terms of questioning : integrating political rhetoric and the sociology of law / Nicholas Turnbull

This collection brings us up-to-date on the contemporary situations in the new democracies of East Asia, and debates on the prospect of introducing liberal democracy to this part of the world. The chapters cover a wide range of cases, including in-depth examination of China, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and broad comparisons of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and other countries. The contributors, who are foremost experts in their fields, examine the roles performed by civil society, social classes, and strategic groups, as well as the intertwining of values and interests in the transition to, consolidation of, and reversal from democracy. They also evaluate the extent to which these new democracies have facilitated regional peace, helped extend social welfare benefits, bolstered poverty alleviation, and upheld the rule of law and human rights. Grounding their analyses in the historical development of these societies, and/or examining them through the comparative strategy they also explore the desirability of liberal democracy, whether in the subjective assessment of the Asian people or in relation to the social-political challenges faced by these Asian countries. East Asia's New Democracies will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, political science, political sociology, East and Southeast Asian studies.

Belgium : a reference instrument, but without the binding force -- France : the origins, with the prospect of increasing effect -- The United Kingdom : developing a human rights culture -- Denmark : a document of ideological importance -- Greece : more verbalism, less effectiveness? -- Luxembourg : content without reference? -- The Netherlands : religious inspiration, but little domestic impact -- Poland : from oblivion to legal use -- Sweden : underestimation of rights -- Austria : keeping a low profile -- Bulgaria : evolving into democracy under the UDHR template -- Finland : political, not legal -- Hungary : the impact on the freedom of expression -- Ireland : from domestic pre-occupations to wider reception -- Italy : a legal puzzle, but the civil society has taken the ball and runs with it -- Portugal : human rights guidelines from the Constitution to sugar bags -- Romania : sidelined to the margins of legal pluralism -- Spain : from totalitarianism to fulfilment -- Cyprus : from an interesting colonial legacy to post-conflict contextualisation -- Germany : from imposition to adherence -- Malta : a tenuous link in human rights practice and procedure -- The Czech Republic : from lip service to concrete application -- Estonia : transition through human rights -- Latvia : binding force through court practice -- Lithuania : subtle material impact -- The Slovak Republic : political significance, not legal -- Slovenia : indirect but increasing impact

Human rights NGOs in East Africa : defining the challenges / Makau Mutua -- To whom, for what, and about what? The legitimacy of human rights NGOs in Kenya / Betty K. Murungi -- Law, sexuality, and politics in Uganda : challenges for women's human rights NGOs / Sylvia Tamale -- NGO struggles for economic, social, and cultural rights in Utake : a Ugandan perspective / Joe Oloka-Onyango -- Feminist masculinity : advocacy for gender equality and equity / Willy Mutunga -- Women's advocacy : engendering and reconstituting the Kenyan state / Jacinta K. Muteshi -- Donors and human rights NGOs in East Africa : challenges and opportunities / Connie Ngondi-Houghton -- Contradictions in neoliberalism : donors, human rights NGOs, and governance in Kenya / Karuti Kanyinga -- State and civil society relations : constructing human rights groups for social change / Livingstone Sewanyana -- Governance and democracy in Kenya : challenges for human rights NGOs / J. Wanjiku Miano -- The African women's development and communication network : Pan-African organizing in human rights / L. Muthoni Wanyeki -- Social transformation in Uganda : a study of grassroots NGOs / Dani W. Nabudere -- The death penalty in East Africa : law and transnational advocacy / Margaret A. Burnham -- Democracy organizations in political transitions : IDASA and the new South Africa / Shaila Gupta and Alycia Kellman -- Conclusion : coming of age : NGOs and state accountability in East Africa / Chris Maina Peter

Using careful historical research and analysis of policy documents, this book explains the origin and evolution of the political conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern Provinces. The conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is one of the world's most intractable contemporary armed struggles. The internationally banned LTTE is considered the prototype of modern terrorism. It is known to have introduced suicide bombing to the world, and recently became the first terrorist organization ever to acquire an air force. The book argues that the Sri Lankan conflict cannot be adequately understood from the dominant bipolar analysis that sees it as a primordial ethnic conflict between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority. The book broadens the discourse providing a multipolar analysis of the complex interplay of political-economic and cultural forces at the local, regional and international levels including the roles of India and the international community. Overall, the book presents a conceptual framework useful for comparative global conflict analysis and resolution, shedding light on a host of complex issues such as terrorism, civil society, diasporas, international intervention and secessionism

Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West and its companion volume, Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, examine and explain the role of foreign policy politics, processes and institutions in efforts to protect the environment and natural resources. They seek to highlight international efforts to address human-induced changes to the natural environment, analyze the actors and institutions that constrain and shape actions on environmental issues, show how environmental changes influence foreign policy processes, and critically assess environmental foreign policies. This book examines the problem of global climate change and assesses the manner in which governments and other actors have attempted to deal with it. It presents a series of in-depth international case studies on climate policy in Australia, Japan, China, Turkey, Hungary, Denmark, France, the European Union and the United States. The authors demonstrate how studying environmental foreign policy can help us to better understand how governments, businesses and civil society actors address-or fail to address-the critical problem climate change. This book will be of strong interest to scholars and students of environmental policy and politics, foreign policy, public policy, climate change and international relations.

Political violence does not end with the last death. A common feature of mass murder has been the attempt to destroy any memory of victims, with the aim of erasing them from history. Perpetrators seek not only to eliminate a perceived threat but also to eradicate any possibility of alternate, competing social and national histories. In this timely and important book, Ernesto Verdeja develops a critical justification for political reconciliation. He asks the questions "What is the balance between punishment and forgiveness?" and "What are the stakes in reconciling?"

Developing a normative theory of reconciliation that differs from prevailing approaches, Verdeja outlines a concept that emphasizes the importance of shared notions of moral respect and tolerance among adversaries in transitional societies. Drawing from reconciliation efforts around the world—and interviews with people involved in such endeavors—Verdeja debates how best to envision reconciliation while taking into account the very significant practical obstacles that confront such efforts.

Unchopping a Tree addresses the core concept of respect at four different social levels—political, institutional, civil society, and interpersonal—to explain the promise and challenges of securing reconciliation and broader social regeneration.