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Book Synopsis Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony by : Jürg Wassmann
Download or read book Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony written by Jürg Wassmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent cultural identities through sports and games, political mediations, tourism, media and filmmaking, and the struggles for land rights and titles, particularly in Australia.This book, based on extensive fieldwork, addresses a subject of great immediacy to peoples of the Pacific Island nations. It fills an important gap in existing ethnographic literature on the region and confidently navigates what had previously been considered uncharted, even unchartable, waters -- that wide sea between the classic ethnography of Oceania and contemporary anthropology's theoretical concerns with global relations and transnational cultures. Its breadth, rigour, and timely contribution to post-colonial politics in Oceania are certain to ensure that this book will provide an enduring contribution to the field.
Book Synopsis Constructing Global Enemies by : Eva Herschinger
Download or read book Constructing Global Enemies written by Eva Herschinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing Global Enemies asks how and why specific interpretations of international terrorism and drug abuse have become hegemonic at the global level. The book analyses the international discourses on terrorism and drug prohibition and compares efforts to counter both, not only from a contemporary but also from a historical perspective. Utilising poststructuralist theory of the relationship between hegemony and identity, Herschinger argues that hegemony is much more than just the dominance of a single country in international life; rather it is the emergence of a hegemonic order that can best be understood as the production of a new collective identity. Offering an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis, the book explores how such hegemonies emerge and persist in the field of security. This serves to explain the widespread disagreement regarding the fight against international terrorism as well as the successful suppression of counter-hegemonic projects in the field of international drug prohibition. Constructing Global Enemies will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations and security studies.
Book Synopsis Constructing Hegemony by : Mandla J. Radebe
Download or read book Constructing Hegemony written by Mandla J. Radebe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-apartheid South Africa continues to face challenges in its attempts at economic transformation from decades of apartheid and colonisation. This need for revolution has resulted in various policy initiatives, including the ongoing demands for the nationalisation of the economy. The commercial media has a central role in shaping policy debates. But this media is an ideological tool and an economic resource since it is owned and controlled by people with political and economic interests and, therefore, tends to support and promote their interests. This book provides a Marxist critique of the representation of the nationalisation of the mines debate by the South African commercial media. Radebe examines corporate control of the media to articulate the interrelations between the State, Capital and the Media and how commercial media represents, shapes and influences public policy. He concludes that beyond factors such as ownership, commercialisation and the influence of advertising on news content, the global capitalist hegemony has a more powerful effect on the commercial media in South Africa than previously thought. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.
Book Synopsis Hegemony How-To by : Jonathan Smucker
Download or read book Hegemony How-To written by Jonathan Smucker and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about power. While many activists gravitate toward mere self-expression and identity-affirming rituals at the expense of serious political intervention, Smucker provides an apologia for leadership, organization, and collective power, a moral argument for its cultivation, and a discussion of dilemmas that movements must navigate in order to succeed.
Book Synopsis Crises and Hegemonic Transitions by : Lorenzo Fusaro
Download or read book Crises and Hegemonic Transitions written by Lorenzo Fusaro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Crises and Hegemonic Transitions Fusaro reconsiders the concept of hegemony at the international level by returning to the critical edition of Gramsci’s Quaderni thereby offering a novel way to interpret past and present developments within the world economy.
Book Synopsis Hegemony or Survival by : Noam Chomsky
Download or read book Hegemony or Survival written by Noam Chomsky and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the last unarmed spot in our neighborhood-the heavens-as a militarized sphere of influence. Our earth and its skies are, for the Bush administration, the final frontiers of imperial control. In Hegemony or Survival , Noam Chomsky investigates how we came to this moment, what kind of peril we find ourselves in, and why our rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of our species. With the striking logic that is his trademark, Chomsky dissects America's quest for global supremacy, tracking the U.S. government's aggressive pursuit of policies intended to achieve "full spectrum dominance" at any cost. He lays out vividly how the various strands of policy-the militarization of space, the ballistic-missile defense program, unilateralism, the dismantling of international agreements, and the response to the Iraqi crisis-cohere in a drive for hegemony that ultimately threatens our survival. In our era, he argues, empire is a recipe for an earthly wasteland. Lucid, rigorous, and thoroughly documented, Hegemony or Survival promises to be Chomsky's most urgent and sweeping work in years, certain to spark widespread debate.
Book Synopsis Constructing Hegemony: The South African Commercial Media and the (Mis)Representation of Nationalisation by : Mandla J. Radebe
Download or read book Constructing Hegemony: The South African Commercial Media and the (Mis)Representation of Nationalisation written by Mandla J. Radebe and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-apartheid South Africa continues to face challenges in its attempts at economic transformation for the benefit of the majority of the people, who were marginalized under decades of apartheid and colonization. This need for transformation has resulted in various policy initiatives, including the ongoing demands for the nationalization of the economy. The commercial media has a central role in shaping policy debates. But this media is an ideological tool as much as it is an economic resource since it is owned and controlled by people with political and economic interests. It, therefore, tends to support and promote the interests of the owners. This book provides a Marxist critique of the representation of the nationalization of the mines debate by the South African commercial media. Radebe examines corporate control of the media in order to articulate the interrelations between the state, capital, and the media, and the way the commercial media represents, shapes and influences public policy. He concludes that beyond factors such as ownership, commercialization, and the influence of advertising on news content, the global capitalist hegemony has a more powerful influence on the commercial media in South Africa than previously thought.
Book Synopsis Constructing Public Opinion by : Justin Lewis
Download or read book Constructing Public Opinion written by Justin Lewis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is polling a process that brings "science" into the study of society? Or are polls crude instruments that tell us little about the way people actually think? The role of public opinion polls in government and mass media has gained increasing importance with each new election or poll taken. Here Lewis presents a new look at an old tradition, the first study of opinion polls using an interdisciplinary approach combining cultural studies, sociology, political science, and mass communication. Rather than dismissing polls, he considers them to be a significant form of representation in contemporary culture; he explores how the media report on polls and, in turn, how publicized results influence the way people respond to polls. Lewis argues that the media tend to exclude the more progressive side of popular opinion from public debate. While the media's influence is limited, it works strategically to maintain the power of pro-corporate political elites.
Book Synopsis Constructing Global Enemies by : Eva Herschinger
Download or read book Constructing Global Enemies written by Eva Herschinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing Global Enemies asks how and why specific interpretations of international terrorism and drug abuse have become hegemonic at the global level. The book analyses the international discourses on terrorism and drug prohibition and compares efforts to counter both, not only from a contemporary but also from a historical perspective. Utilising poststructuralist theory of the relationship between hegemony and identity, Herschinger argues that hegemony is much more than just the dominance of a single country in international life; rather it is the emergence of a hegemonic order that can best be understood as the production of a new collective identity. Offering an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis, the book explores how such hegemonies emerge and persist in the field of security. This serves to explain the widespread disagreement regarding the fight against international terrorism as well as the successful suppression of counter-hegemonic projects in the field of international drug prohibition. Constructing Global Enemies will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations and security studies.
Book Synopsis Home and Hegemony by : Kathleen M. Adams
Download or read book Home and Hegemony written by Kathleen M. Adams and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original and provocative essays on the construction of identity and hegemony
Book Synopsis Acting Alone by : Bradley F. Podliska
Download or read book Acting Alone written by Bradley F. Podliska and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting Alone: A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making is a straight-forward analysis of unilateral U.S. military actions, which are dependent upon the power disparity between the U.S. and the rest of the world. In solving the puzzle as to why individual presidents have made the "wrong" decision to act alone, the author lays out a president's behavior, during a crisis, as a two-step decision process. Acting Alone reviews the well-studied first decision, deciding to use force, based on international conflict literature and organized along traditional lines. The author then details the second decision, deciding to use unilateral force, with an explanation of the criticisms of multilateralism and the reasons for unilateralism. To test a new theory of unilateral use of force decision making, Acting Alone devises a definition and coding rules for unilateral use of force, develops a sequential model of presidential use of force decision making, and constructs a new, alternative measure of military power, a Composite Indicator of Military Revolutions (CIMR). It then uses three methods - a statistical test with a heckman probit model, an experiment, and case studies - to test U.S. crisis behavior since 1937.By applying these three methods, the author finds that presidents are realists and make expected utility calculations to act unilaterally or multilaterally after their decision to use force. The unilateral decision, in particular, positively correlates with a wide military gap with an opponent, an opponent located in the Western hemisphere, and a national security threat.
Book Synopsis Constructing a Post-War Order by : Andrew Baker
Download or read book Constructing a Post-War Order written by Andrew Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1942 to 1946 saw the acceleration of World War II, its conclusion and the construction of a post-war order that was to culminate in the Cold War. Andrew Baker here examines the expansion of US political and economic power and hegemony during this period, and the extent to which smaller states, particularly Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, contested this expansion. Through successfully outlining and defending their own notions of sovereignty, property and commercial rights, they were able to a make a significant contribution towards fashioning a post-war framework more conducive to states than empires. This analysis of the period immediately after World War II will appeal to researchers of history and international relations, as well as those interested in the political economy of the post-war world.
Book Synopsis The Imaginary Institution of India by : Sudipta Kaviraj
Download or read book The Imaginary Institution of India written by Sudipta Kaviraj and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scattered abroad. This collection finally presents his work in one convenient volume and, in doing so, reasserts the brilliance of his approach. As evidenced in these essays, Kaviraj's exceptional strategy positions Indian politics within the political philosophy of the West and alongside the perspectives of Indian history and indigenous political thought. Studies include the peculiar nature of Indian democracy; the specific aspects of Jawaharlal Nehru's and Indira Gandhi's regimes; political culture in independent India; the construction of colonial power; the relationship between state, society, and discourse; the structure of nationalist discourse; language and identity formation in Indian contexts; the link between development and democracy, or democratic functioning; and the interaction among religion, politics, and modernity in South Asia. Each of these essays explores the place of politics in the social life of modern India and is powered by the idea that Indian politics is plastic, reflecting and shaping the world in which people live.
Book Synopsis An Uneasy Hegemony by : Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits
Download or read book An Uneasy Hegemony written by Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It departs from the scholarship produced on Sri Lanka, and re-introduces the neo-Marxist approaches through the works of Antonio Gramsci.
Book Synopsis The Transformation of Political Communication in China by : Xiaoling Zhang
Download or read book The Transformation of Political Communication in China written by Xiaoling Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines different dynamics such as marketisation, globalisation and new media technologies that have driven the transformation of China's media industry — one of the primary battlegrounds where ideological, social and economic struggles are fought — against the backdrop of the growing tensions between economic growth, globalisation, and political control in China. Sample Chapter(s) Introduction (205 KB) Chapter 11: The Chinese Media in Historical Context (191 KB) Contents:IntroductionThe Chinese Media in Historical ContextUnleashed Forces at WorkManaging the Forces to Stay in Power with LegitimacyNegotiation between the Party-State and Media Organisations“Occupying the Commanding Heights”Conclusion: Chinese Media Reform between Control, Resistance and Negotiation Readership: Students of China/cultural/media studies, political science and history. Keywords:Chinese Communication;Media;Transformation;Political Reform;Negotiation;Hegemony;Legitimacy;Control;Anti-Hegemony;Marketisation;Globalisation;New Media Technologies;Gramsci;GovernanceKey Features:Proposes a new relationship characterised by negotiation between the state and the media as one of the major dynamics in China's media transformationPresents carefully chosen examples of control, resistance and negotiation between the Party-state and the media, ranging from the coverage of the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the earthquake in 2008, the Spring Festival TV Gala, to the latest use of new media technologiesProvides significant insight not only into the transformation of communications and media in China, but also into the nature of the ongoing political reform and the implications for the global flow of information, given that China is poised to become a global playerReviews: “The Transformation of Political Communication in China is a must-read for students of both Chinese politics and the Chinese media. Xiaoling Zhang offers a theoretically engaged and empirically rich account of the fraught and dynamic processes of control, negotiation and power struggle. Integrating critical analysis with detailed case studies, the book approaches the communication system in China from historical, institutional and policy-making perspectives, painting a vivid and convincing picture of the symbiotic and complex relationship between politics, media and governmentality. Zhang's work will lead us towards a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of how power and political control work in China.” Wanning Sun Professor of Chinese Media Studies University of Technology Sydney “In this well-researched book, Dr Xiaoling Zhang examines great driving forces behind the transformation of China's media industry such as marketization, globalisation and new media technologies, and how this transformation has generated the growing tensions between economic growth, globalisation and political control. The book provides the reader with a vivid picture of how the battle between the Chinese Communist Party and social forces is being fought. Dr Zhang has made a great scholarly contribution not only to the field of media studies, but also to other fields such as sociology and political science. I am sure that the book will certainly deepen our understanding of contemporary China.” Zheng Yongnian Director, East Asian Institute National University of Singapore
Book Synopsis Constructing the Criollo Archive by : Antony Higgins
Download or read book Constructing the Criollo Archive written by Antony Higgins and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a period neglected by scholars, Higgins reconstructs how during the colonial period criollos - individuals identified as being of Spanish descent born in America - elaborated a body of knowledge, an "archive," in order to establish their intellectual autonomy within the Spanish colonial administrative structures." "This book opens up an important area of research that will be of interest to scholars and students of Spanish American colonial literature and history."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony by : Nathan MacDonald
Download or read book The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony written by Nathan MacDonald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Jerusalem high priests go from being cultic servants in the sixth century BCE to assuming political supremacy at some point during the third or second century? The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony examines how the conditions were created for the priesthood's rise to power by examining the most important ideological texts for the high priests: the description of the wilderness tabernacle and the instructions for the ordination ritual found in the Biblical books of Exodus and Leviticus. Although neglected by many modern readers, who often find them technical and repetitive, the tabernacle accounts excited considerable interest amongst early scribes and readers, as is evidenced by the survival of them in no fewer than four versions. Untangling this intricate compositional history helps shed light on how these chapters in the Pentateuch shaped-and were shaped by-the perception of the priesthood's powers and competencies during the Persian and early Hellenistic periods. The hierarchy that is developed is more nuanced and multifaceted than previously appreciated, with Israelite artisans, community leaders, Levites and women incorporated into a complex vision of society. The ordination ritual was also transformed by scribal elites during the Persian period, appearing in no fewer than five variant forms as the role of the high priesthood and its relationship to other groups was negotiated. Using a broad, plural methodological approach that incorporates insights from sociology, ritual studies, textual and literary criticism, early interpretation, manuscript studies, and philology, Nathan MacDonald's study shines new light on the historical development, theology, and ideology of priestly texts in the Pentateuch.
