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UNINA9910554229703321 |
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Schatz Edward |
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Titolo |
Slow anti-Americanism : social movementsand symbolic politics in Central Asia / / Edward Schatz |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 215 pages) |
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Anti-Americanism - Asia, Central |
Asia, Central Foreign relations United States |
United States Foreign relations Asia, Central |
Asia, Central Politics and government 1991- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION Slow Anti-Americanism -- 1 America’s Changing Image -- 2 Islamist Trajectories -- 3 Human Rights Trajectories -- 4 Labor, Disorganized -- CONCLUSION Shaping the Slow Politics of Anti-Americanism -- APPENDIX Reflections on Methods and Methodology -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues that anti-Americanism is best seen not as a rising tide that swamps or as a conflagration that overwhelms. Rather, "America" is a symbolic resource that resides quietly in the mundane but always has potential value for social and political mobilizers. Using a wide range of evidence and a novel analytic framework, Schatz considers how Islamist movements, human rights activists, and labor mobilizers across Central Asia avail themselves of this fact, thus changing their ability to pursue their respective agendas. By refocusing our analytic gaze away from high politics, he affords us a clearer view of the slower-moving, partially occluded, and socially embedded processes that ground how "America" becomes political. In |
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turn, we gain a nuanced appreciation of the downstream effects of US foreign policy choices and a sober sense of the challenges posed by the politics of traveling images. Most treatments of anti-Americanism focus on politics in the realm of presidential elections and foreign policies. By focusing instead on symbols, Schatz lays bare how changing public attitudes shift social relations in politically significant ways, and considers how changing symbolic depictions of the United States recombine the raw material available for social mobilizers. Just like sediment traveling along waterways before reaching its final destination, the raw material that constitutes symbolic America can travel among various social groups, and can settle into place to form the basis of new social meanings. Symbolic America, Schatz shows us, matters for politics in Central Asia and beyond. |
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UNINA9910777859603321 |
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Autore |
Jonakait Randolph N |
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The American jury system [[electronic resource] /] / Randolph N. Jonakait |
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New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2003 |
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1-281-73021-1 |
9786611730215 |
0-300-12940-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Yale contemporary law series |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-330) and index. |
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Overview -- Checking abuses of power -- Hammering out facts -- Juries and community values -- Abide the issue -- Jury size and jury performance -- Unanimity and hung juries -- The vicinage -- The most diverse of our democratic bodies -- Challenges for cause -- Preemptory challenges -- "Scientific" jury selection -- The adversary system -- Presentation of evidence -- Instructions -- Jury verdicts and the primacy of evidence -- Jury trials of complex cases -- Jury |
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nullification -- The finality of verdicts -- Reform. |
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How are juries selected in the United States? What forces influence juries in making their decisions? Are some cases simply beyond the ability of juries to decide? How useful is the entire jury system?In this important and accessible book, a prominent expert on constitutional law examines these and other issues concerning the American jury system. Randolph N. Jonakait describes the historical and social pressures that have driven the development of the jury system; contrasts the American jury system to the legal process in other countries; reveals subtle changes in the popular view of juries; examines how the news media, movies, and books portray and even affect the system; and discusses the empirical data that show how juries actually operate and what influences their decisions. Jonakait endorses the jury system in both civil and criminal cases, spelling out the important social role juries play in legitimizing and affirming the American justice system. |
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