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Varshney, Ashutosh: Ethnic conflict and civic life: Hindus and Muslims in India. - 2nd ed. - New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2002. - 382 S. + Enthält Rezensionen von: Beissinger, Mark R.: Nationalist mobilization and the collapse of the Soviet State. - Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002. - 503 S

This article analyses data from a participant observation study of decision making in local National Health Service institutions, focusing on the construction of local clinical guidelines. We found that guideline construction departed significantly from the "bureaucratic-scientific" model. Although clinical guidelines are often seen as constraining the practice of medicine, our study suggests that there is nothing intrinsically corrosive of professional autonomy about guidelines. It is not likely to be guidelines per se which diminish physician autonomy but rather the manner in which they are implemented. Participation in the guidelines process functioned primarily as a device by which actors hoped to pursue their existing opinions, either through imposing them on others, or by creating a framework of legitimation for themselves. (Original abstract)

"This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding the micropolitics of speed; a rich, nuanced, and embodied account of life in an accelerating world. What does it feel like to live in an era of profound social acceleration? What kinds of affects, perceptions, and identities does an accelerating world produce? The answers to these questions mean more than simply understanding the psychology of speed; they also mean understanding issues in contemporary politics as diverse as xenophobia and anti-immigration policies, patterns of trans-national identification and solidarity, social isolation and alienation, and the ability of new media to coordinate social movements. While drawing extensively on the work of contemporary theorists, Simon Glezos recognizes that social acceleration is not a purely recent phenomenon. He therefore turns to thinkers such as Nietzsche, Spinoza, Bergson, and Merleau-Ponty, to ask how they sought to understand, and respond to, the rapid changes and unsettling temporalities of their eras, and how their insights can be applied to our own. Advancing theoretical understanding and offering a useful way to analytically conceptualize the nature of time, Speed and Micropolitics will be of interest to students and scholars studying affect theory, theories of the body, new materialism, phenomenology, as well as the history of political thought"--

"Following the hidden lives of the global "1%", this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan's wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures"--