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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:
Download or read book A Democracy of Ghosts written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Annette Cristescu, Radu Freyberg-Inan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3898214168
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or: John Dewey Meets Ceauşescu written by Annette Cristescu, Radu Freyberg-Inan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can democracy be learned? And how successful are we at teaching and learning it?This book does three things: First, it explains why civic education is important for the growth and survival of (any type of) democracy. Second, it focuses on a particular country, which is in many ways representative for the general problems of post-communist transition to democracy. It carefully examines the practical reality of civic education in Romania both at the level of general schooling and in higher education. Emphasis lies on the ways in which the ideals of civic education clash with post-communist realities and on the obstacles that continue to exist in this transition country to the democratic empowerment of citizens through education. Scarcity of resources, corruption in many forms, and attitudes of deference to authority, among other problems, perpetuate a situation in which education fails to support democratization and instead reflects the failures of regimes of the past. Third, the book offers concrete recommendations for how civic education in Romania (and elsewhere) can be improved. How can education be organized to suc-cessfully support the realization of democratic ideals?This book is based on its main author’s direct experience working in the field of civic education in Romania between 1999 and 2005 and draws on her wider expertise in the study of Romanian political economy and the country’s European integration as well as in the fields of political psychology and democratic theory. It is of particular interest for teachers and social scientists willing to reflect on the implications of their teaching or research for democratic empowerment, for policymakers and activists who seek to support processes of democratization, as well as for students of post-communist transition countries in general and of Romania in particular. It provides an accessible, informative, and frequently humorous account of lofty ideals clashing with harsh realities on the battlefield of democratic emancipation.
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 : Kenneth Christie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135789681
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe written by Kenneth Christie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memory of past atrocity lingers like a ghost at the table of democracy. Injustices carried out in the past - from massacres and murder to repression and detention - embitter societies and distort their structures so that the process of establishing and running a democracy carries an extra burden. This volume examines societies at various stages of dealing with the memory of the past, from China, Mongolia, Indonesia and the Baltic States, where bitter memories of death and persecution still intrude, to Finland, where the civil war of 1918 has finally been accepted as a distant national tragedy.
Author : Claire Bishop
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781683972
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Artificial Hells written by Claire Bishop and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawe? Althamer and Paul Chan. Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.
Author : Mamphela Ramphele
Publisher : Tafelberg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Laying Ghosts to Rest written by Mamphela Ramphele and published by Tafelberg. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating look at the South African transition and what is wrong with it, by a prominent commentator
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 : 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:
