Author: Amy Blitz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: state, contested
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-08-28
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 084769934X
ISBN-13: 9780847699346
From a scholar’s first-hand account of the fall of Marcos comes The Contested State, an inquiry into the international causes and consequences of civil war, the different types of regimes that emerge from such conflict, and the implications for American foreign policy. Tracing the battle for control of the Philippines back to the Spanish era, The Contested State presents a historical, transnational picture of regime change, offering insights into the broader transnational issues that are increasingly important in an ever more globalized world.
Author: Richards Edwards
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: terrain, contested
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1980-07-06
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0465014135
ISBN-13: 9780465014132
The controversial study by a young radical economist of the transformation of the workplace-- where today impersonal bureaucracies legitimate hierarchies and enhance the employer’s control over the worker.
Author: Steven Seidman
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: knowledge, contested
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2008-03-07
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 1405170018
ISBN-13: 9781405170017
Contested Knowledge is a well-established text offering up-to-date perspectives on social theory by one of the most important thinkers of our time. This fourth edition includes an exploration of globalization and a new section on the theories of global and world order. It provides a thoughtful and rigorous, yet highly accessible and reader-friendly account of social theory. Responds to current issues, debates, and new social movements Reviews sociological theory from a truly contemporary perspective Examines both classical and contemporary theories Combines social analysis and moral advocacy t
Author: Shelley Butler
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: representations, contested
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 9057005220
ISBN-13: 9789057005220
The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum’s exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legac
Author: James Shapiro
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: shakespeare, wrote, contested
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2010-04-06
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1416541624
ISBN-13: 9781416541622
For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. Among the doubters have been such writers and thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Helen Keller. It is a fascinating story, replete wit
Author: John Hull Mollenkopf
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: city, contested
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1983-11-01
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0691022208
ISBN-13: 9780691022208
Author: Margaret Jane Radin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: commodities, contested
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1996-05-15
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0674166973
ISBN-13: 9780674166974
Not only are there willing buyers for body parts or babies, Radin observes, but some desperately poor people would be willing sellers, while better-off people find such trades abhorrent. Radin observes that many such areas of contested commodification reflect a persistent dilemma in liberal society: we value freedom of choice and simultaneously believe that choices ought to be restricted to protect the integrity of what it means to be a person. She views this tension as primarily the result of underlying social and economic inequality, which need not reflect an irreconcilable conflict in the
