Political power and social theory [[electronic resource] ] . Volume 23 / / edited by Julian Go

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, U.K., : Emerald, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetto topico: Political science; Political sociology; Power (Social sciences); Historical materialism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GoJulian <1970->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: FRONT COVER; POLITICAL POWER AND SOCIAL THEORY; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD; STUDENT EDITORIAL BOARD; EDITORIAL STATEMENT; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; PART I: TRANSFORMATIONS AND POLITICS; FREE RIDING ON REVOLUTION: CONSERVATISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE; DILEMMAS AND PARADOXES; THE CONSERVATIVE CRITIQUE; BRITISH DEMOCRACY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; AUSTRALIAN SELF-GOVERNMENT AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; PARTIES AND THE ARTICULATION OF NEOLIBERALISM: FROM ''THE EMERGENCY'' TO REFORMS IN INDIA, 1975-1991; INTRODUCTION ; IMPLEMENTING NEOLIBERALISM: EXISTING APPROACHESSTATE, CLASS, AND NEOLIBERALISM IN INDIA: EXISTING EXPLANATIONS; EXPLAINING THE INDIAN CASE; INDIA, 1975-1977: CRISIS AND ''THE EMERGENCY'' AS SOLUTION; NEW POLITICAL ARTICULATIONS: CODING THE EROSION OF STATE LEGITIMACY; CODING DISSENT: JP MOVEMENT AND THE HINDU RIGHT; CONSOLIDATING NEOLIBERALISM? PARTIES AND MOBILIZATION POST-1991; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; ''A NEW HEALTH ORDER AS PART OF THE NEW SOCIAL ORDER'': THE STRATEGIC RESPONSE OF THE WHO TO ITS MEMBER STATES; INTRODUCTION ; INTERNATIONAL BUREAUCRACIES: AUTONOMY, CAPACITY, AND ADAPTIVE STRATEGIESTHE WHO'S STRATEGIC ADAPTATION TO THE NIEO; CONCLUSION; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; PART II: POLITICS AND IDENTITIES; THE RECONFIGURATION OF THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL QUESTION: THE INDIRECT RULE ROUTE AND THE CIVIL SOCIETY ROUTE; GROUP FORMATION BEYOND THE SYMBOLIC POWER OF THE STATE; NATIONAL GROUP FORMATION AMONG PALESTINIANS; LESSONS FROM GRAMSCI'S THE SOUTHERN QUESTION; THE WEAKENING OF PALESTINIAN GROUP SOLIDARITY: TWO ROUTES; THE INDIRECT RULE ROUTE: OLD AND NEW CLEAVAGES ; THE CIVIL SOCIETY ROUTE: CITIZENSHIP, ''LAWYERING,'' AND ASSOCIATIONISMTHE INDIRECT RULE ROUTE AND THE CIVIL SOCIETY ROUTE: PRESENT AND FUTURE; STRATEGIES OF RULE AND THE UNMAKING OF SOCIAL GROUPS: CONCLUSIVE REMARKS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; TRANSFORMING CITIZENSHIP: THE SUBJECTIVE CONSEQUENCES OF LOCAL POLITICAL MOBILIZATION; ''DEFENSIVE'' LOCAL IDENTITIES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT; THE CASE OF THE CHICAGO LIVING WAGE CAMPAIGN: RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS; THE SUBJECTIVE CONSEQUENCES OF LOCAL POLITICAL MOBILIZATION; CITIZENSHIP IDENTITIES IN CONTEXT; RECONCEPTUALIZING COLLECTIVE ACTION ; CONCLUSIONNOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; POLITICAL FIELDS AND RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: THE EXCLUSION OF THE AHMADIYYA COMMUNITY IN PAKISTAN; POLITICAL FIELDS AND RELIGIOUS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN PAKISTAN; THE AHMADIYYA COMMUNITY IN PAKISTAN; THE POLITICS OF ACCOMMODATION OF AHMADIS; BETWEEN ACCOMMODATION AND EXCLUSION; THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION OF AHMADIS; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; RACIALIZED CLASS FORMATION: BLACKS IN THE PROFESSIONAL MIDDLE CLASS IN THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS ERA; INTRODUCTION; BUILDING ON THE RECENT LITERATURE ON THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS; PROBLEM AND METHOD ; THEORIZING RACIALIZED CLASS FORMATION
• Sommario/riassunto: As economic stagnation freezes the globe; capitalism is increasingly questioned; war, revolution and political instability unsettles the Middle East; and President Obama's campaign for the Presidency looms, Volume 23 of Political Power and Social Theory reflects on these and related issues and whether the concept of "capitalism" should be problematized entirely..
• Titolo autorizzato: Political power and social theory
• ISBN: 1-283-58877-3; 9786613901224; 1-78052-867-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462141903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Political Power and Social Theory