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Download or read book Democracy of Ghosts written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Anthony Koeninger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780757541438
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (414 download)
Download or read book A Democracy of Ghosts written by Anthony Koeninger and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael G. Hanchard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140088957X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Spectre of Race written by Michael G. Hanchard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to today As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat. In The Spectre of Race, Michael Hanchard argues that the current rise in xenophobia and racist rhetoric is nothing new and that exclusionary policies have always been central to democratic practices since their beginnings in classical times. Contending that democracy has never been for all people, Hanchard discusses how marginalization is reinforced in modern politics, and why these contradictions need to be fully examined if the dynamics of democracy are to be truly understood. Hanchard identifies continuities of discriminatory citizenship from classical Athens to the present and looks at how democratic institutions have promoted undemocratic ideas and practices. The longest-standing modern democracies--France, Britain, and the United States—profited from slave labor, empire, and colonialism, much like their Athenian predecessor. Hanchard follows these patterns through the Enlightenment and to the states and political thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and he examines how early political scientists, including Woodrow Wilson and his contemporaries, devised what Hanchard has characterized as "racial regimes" to maintain the political and economic privileges of dominant groups at the expense of subordinated ones. Exploring how democracies reconcile political inequality and equality, Hanchard debates the thorny question of the conditions under which democracies have created and maintained barriers to political membership. Showing the ways that race, gender, nationality, and other criteria have determined a person's status in political life, The Spectre ofRace offers important historical context for how democracy generates political difference and inequality.
Author : John Griswold
Publisher : Wordcraft of Oregon
ISBN 13 : 9781877655630
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (556 download)
Download or read book A Democracy of Ghosts written by John Griswold and published by Wordcraft of Oregon. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DEMOCRACY OF GHOSTS is the love story of four couples, set against the backdrop of the Herrin Massacre of 1922. This clash of miners and strikebreakers in Bloody Williamson County, in Southern Illinois, resulted in the deaths of 21 men -- 19 of them the "scabs" tortured and murdered by average men, women, and even children in what was once the most radical community in America. John Griswold has drawn from contemporary eyewitnesses and news accounts, an ethnography of the area, histories, and his own grandfather's letters to create the lives of four fictional couples whose ambitions, self-doubts, and social and sexual jealousies contribute to this great American violence that still echoes down through time. "At times disturbing and tragically violent, always insightful, poignant and uncompromising, Griswold's riveting narrative is filled with complex mean and women bursting with life. Fast-paced and powerful, GHOSTS is an original rise told by a masterful writer." -- Duff Brenna, author of THE BOOK OF MAMIE and THE LAW OF FALLING BODIES "Readers may uncomfortably identify with the characters in GHOSTS because they are not bigger than life, have many fallacies and no scruples. Neither saints nor sinners, but possessing the qualities of both, the characters of A DEMOCRACY OF GHOSTS are liars, cheaters, killers, torturers, and opportunists; at the same time, they are loving, humorous, protective, and very human." -- Lee Gooden, FOREWORD MAGAZINE, July 2009 "With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair." -- Bob Shacochis
Author : Nils Bubandt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317682521
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia written by Nils Bubandt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. The country has achieved a successful transition to democracy and yet Indonesian democracy continues to be flawed, illiberal, and predatory. This book suggests that this and other paradoxes of democracy in Indonesia often assume occult forms in the Indonesian political imagination, and that the spirit-like character of democracy and corruption traverses into the national media and the political elite. Through a series of biographical accounts of political entrepreneurs, all of whom employ spirits in various, but always highly contested, ways, the book seeks to provide a portrait of Indonesia’s contradictory democracy, contending that the contradictions that haunt democracy in Indonesia also infect democracy globally. Exploring the intimate ways in which the world of politics and the world of spirits are entangled, it argues that Indonesia’s seemingly peculiar problems with democracy and spirits in fact reflect a set of contradictions within democracy itself. Engaging with recent attempts to look at contemporary politics through the lens of the occult, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Studies, Anthropology and Political Science and relevant for the study of Indonesian politics and for debates about democracy in Asia and beyond.
Author : Kwasi Kwarteng
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408829002
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Ghosts of Empire written by Kwasi Kwarteng and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, irresponsible opportunism and uncertain pragmatism.
Author : Arundhati Roy
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608464296
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Capitalism written by Arundhati Roy and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “courageous and clarion” Booker Prize–winner “continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism” (Booklist). From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country’s one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation. “A highly readable and characteristically trenchant mapping of early-twenty-first-century India’s impassioned love affair with money, technology, weaponry and the ‘privatization of everything,’ and—because these must not be impeded no matter what—generous doses of state violence.” —The Nation “A vehement broadside against capitalism in general and American cultural imperialism in particular . . . an impassioned manifesto.” —Kirkus Reviews “Roy’s central concern is the effect on her own country, and she shows how Indian politics have taken on the same model, leading to the ghosts of her book’s title: 250,000 farmers have committed suicide, 800 million impoverished and dispossessed Indians, environmental destruction, colonial-like rule in Kashmir, and brutal treatment of activists and journalists. In this dark tale, Roy gives rays of hope that illuminate cracks in the nightmare she evokes.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Dorothy Rabinowitz
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595141285
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Download or read book New Lives written by Dorothy Rabinowitz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Monica Black
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250225663
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book A Demon-Haunted Land written by Monica Black and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Demon-Haunted Land is absorbing, gripping, and utterly fascinating... Beautifully written, without even a hint of jargon or pretension, it casts a significant and unexpected new light on the early phase of the Federal Republic of Germany’s history. Black’s analysis of the copious, largely unknown archival sources on which the book is based is unfailingly subtle and intelligent.” —Richard J. Evans, The New Republic In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault, and even murder. What linked these events, in the wake of an annihilationist war and the Holocaust, was a widespread preoccupation with evil. While many histories emphasize Germany’s rapid transition from genocidal dictatorship to liberal democracy, A Demon-Haunted Land places in full view the toxic mistrust, profound bitterness, and spiritual malaise that unfolded alongside the economic miracle. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, acclaimed historian Monica Black argues that the surge of supernatural obsessions stemmed from the unspoken guilt and shame of a nation remarkably silent about what was euphemistically called “the most recent past.” This shadow history irrevocably changes our view of postwar Germany, revealing the country’s fraught emotional life, deep moral disquiet, and the cost of trying to bury a horrific legacy.
Author : Carl Sagan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307801047
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Demon-Haunted World written by Carl Sagan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace “A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.”—Los Angeles Times How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today's so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. Praise for The Demon-Haunted World “Powerful . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing.”—The Washington Post Book World “Compelling.”—USA Today “A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity.”—The Sciences “Passionate.”—San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
Author : John E. Mueller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190237317
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Chasing Ghosts written by John E. Mueller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chasing Ghosts exposes the ill-founded paranoia that has allowed the national security state to both feed at the public trough and undermine America's civil liberties tradition.
Author : Dustin Lawson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781515067382
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)
Download or read book The Ghost of Democracy written by Dustin Lawson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White House is haunted. 11:31 PM on January 20, 2033, after a long inauguration day, newly-elected President Joshua Land enters the Oval Office and sits down at the Resolute Desk to read the letter from the outgoing president, Daniel Manning. In that letter, President Manning says that for everyone who pursues the presidency, the White House is their white whale, their Moby Dick. And, as Moby Dick haunted Captain Ahab, so also the White House haunts each president. At first, Joshua thinks the letter is a joke, some kind of hazing ritual the previous president plays on the new president. But, as eerie occurrences begin happening throughout the White House, President Land begins to wonder if maybe Daniel's letter was a genuine warning. Eventually, President Land discovers that the White House is in fact haunted. Joshua's agenda is "less government at home, and more Democracy abroad". But, the ghosts think Democracy has run its course and needs to be eliminated because it can no longer effectively fix the world's problems. The ghosts explain that they have been haunting the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration. Ever since, they have helped each president gradually prepare the country and the world for the transition away from Democracy to a better form of government. The ghosts' think the world is now ready for that better form of government. Joshua is told that if he does not comply, the haunting will intensify. Finding himself at a crossroads, an intersection where chance and destiny meet, President Land must decide whether to ignore the ghosts' demands and continue on his current course, or fulfill what the White House says is the presidency's destiny. With a life that has been filled with pain, will Joshua be able to manage the demons from his past as he faces the ghosts of his presidency? Combining supernatural horror and politics into an unsettling drama, this story will leave a reader unsure of what scares him or her more, the ghosts or the government. If Stephen King and Thomas Jefferson teamed up to write a novel it would have been this book.
Author : Nils Bubandt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317682513
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia written by Nils Bubandt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. The country has achieved a successful transition to democracy and yet Indonesian democracy continues to be flawed, illiberal, and predatory. This book suggests that this and other paradoxes of democracy in Indonesia often assume occult forms in the Indonesian political imagination, and that the spirit-like character of democracy and corruption traverses into the national media and the political elite. Through a series of biographical accounts of political entrepreneurs, all of whom employ spirits in various, but always highly contested, ways, the book seeks to provide a portrait of Indonesia’s contradictory democracy, contending that the contradictions that haunt democracy in Indonesia also infect democracy globally. Exploring the intimate ways in which the world of politics and the world of spirits are entangled, it argues that Indonesia’s seemingly peculiar problems with democracy and spirits in fact reflect a set of contradictions within democracy itself. Engaging with recent attempts to look at contemporary politics through the lens of the occult, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Studies, Anthropology and Political Science and relevant for the study of Indonesian politics and for debates about democracy in Asia and beyond.
Author : Dustin Lawson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781518623851
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (238 download)
Download or read book The Ghost of Democracy written by Dustin Lawson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White House is haunted. 11:31 PM on January 20, 2033, after a long inauguration day, newly-elected President Joshua Land enters the Oval Office and sits down at the Resolute Desk to read the letter from the outgoing president, Daniel Manning. In that letter, President Manning says that for everyone who pursues the presidency, the White House is their white whale, their Moby Dick. And, as Moby Dick haunted Captain Ahab, so also the White House haunts each president. At first, Joshua thinks the letter is a joke, some kind of hazing ritual the previous president plays on the new president. But, as eerie occurrences begin happening throughout the White House, President Land begins to wonder if maybe Daniel's letter was a genuine warning. Eventually, President Land discovers that the White House is in fact haunted. Joshua's agenda is "less government at home, and more Democracy abroad". But, the ghosts think Democracy has run its course and needs to be eliminated because it can no longer effectively fix the world's problems. The ghosts explain that they have been haunting the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration. Ever since, they have helped each president gradually prepare the country and the world for the transition away from Democracy to a better form of government. The ghosts' think the world is now ready for that better form of government. Joshua is told that if he does not comply, the haunting will intensify. Finding himself at a crossroads, an intersection where chance and destiny meet, President Land must decide whether to ignore the ghosts' demands and continue on his current course, or fulfill what the White House says is the presidency's destiny. With a life that has been filled with pain, will Joshua be able to manage the demons from his past as he faces the ghosts of his presidency? Combining supernatural horror and politics into an unsettling drama, this story will leave a reader unsure of what scares him or her more, the ghosts or the government. If Stephen King and Thomas Jefferson teamed up to write a novel it would have been this book.
Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524748838
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Ghost Variations written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers. A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly trees that haunt the occupant of a wooden house, specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead: these are just a few of the characters in this extraordinary compendium of one hundred ghost stories. Kevin Brockmeier’s fiction has always explored the space between the fantastical and the everyday with profundity and poignancy. As in his previous books, The Ghost Variations discovers new ways of looking at who we are and what matters to us, exploring how mysterious, sad, strange, and comical it is to be alive—or, as it happens, not to be.
Author : Heonik Kwon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107659421
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Ghosts of War in Vietnam written by Heonik Kwon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally.
