Tag: Politics

Free Download Sojin Lim, "Politics, International Relations and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula "
English | ISBN: 1032491922 | 2023 | 152 pages | EPUB | 903 KB
This edited volumeexplores the past, present, and future of the Korean Peninsula, with special focus on South Korea, by connecting developments in politics with those in international relations and diplomacy.

Free Download Politics of Religious Freedom By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood, Peter G. Danchin
2015 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 022624847X | PDF | 2 MB
In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have responded with laws and policies designed to promote freedom of religion. But what precisely is being promoted? What are the cultural and epistemological assumptions underlying this response, and what forms of politics are enabled in the process? The fruits of the three-year Politics of Religious Freedom research project, the contributions to this volume unsettle the assumption-ubiquitous in policy circles-that religious freedom is a singular achievement, an easily understood state of affairs, and that the problem lies in its incomplete accomplishment. Taking a global perspective, the more than two dozen contributors delineate the different conceptions of religious freedom predominant in the world today, as well as their histories and social and political contexts. Together, the contributions make clear that the reasons for persecution are more varied and complex than is widely acknowledged, and that the indiscriminate promotion of a single legal and cultural tool meant to address conflict across a wide variety of cultures can have the perverse effect of exacerbating the problems that plague the communities cited as falling short.

Free Download Kevin C. Dunn, "Politics of Origin in Africa: Autochthony, Citizenship and Conflict"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1848139977, 1848139969 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.7 mb
In this revealing new book, Bøås and Dunn explore the phenomenon of ‘autochthony’ – literally ‘son of the soil’ – in African politics. In contemporary Africa, questions concerning origin are currently among the most crucial and contested issues in political life, directly relating to the politics of place, belonging, identity and contested citizenship. Thus, land claims and autochthony disputes are the hallmark of political crises in many places on the African continent.

Free Download Politics of Hate: Religious Majoritarianism in South Asia edited by Farahnaz Ispahani
English | March 2, 2023 | ISBN: 9356293554, ASIN: B0BPZ1SKC2 | True AZW3/EPUB | 336 pages | 0.8/0.8 MB
Over the years, politicians across the world have exploited ethnic and religious sentiments to mobilize support in their favour. Majoritarian communalism entails rehashing historical grievances and creating fear among the majority that minorities threaten the former’s religion, culture or tradition. In many instances, the minority groups are described as privileged, unduly supported by the state, a threat to economic and job opportunities for the majority and so on.

Free Download Katherine Hite, "Politics and the Art of Commemoration: memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415843545, 0415780713 | PDF | pages: 161 | 1.6 mb
Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between states and societies symbolically to right wrongs, to recognize loss, to assert distinct historical narratives that are not dominant.

Free Download Marie-Soleil Frère, "Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa: Systems, Practices and Identities"
English | ISBN: 3030994015 | 2022 | 376 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The author argues that there are common features that the media and journalism share in the seventeen countries of Francophone Africa and these make the local media systems different from what they are in neighboring English-speaking African countries, and in the rest of the world. The approach of the media in French-speaking Africa has not only to be "de-Westernized", but also to step out of general overviews considering "African media." This project shows the historical, political, economic and sociological characteristics of the media systems of seventeen French-speaking countries of Africa.

Free Download Policy Design for Research and Innovation: Politics, Institutions and Interest Intermediation Practices
by Claudia Acciai
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031366271 | 268 Pages | True PDF | 5.8 MB

Free Download Kevin Potter, "Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion"
English | ISBN: 1399524992 | 2023 | 384 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Since the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on class, race, gender, nations, and mobility. But, beyond depicting migration, is it possible for migrant literature to be a force of movement itself? Poetics of the Migrant calls upon the philosophy of movement and a counter-history of migration to invent a theory and method for analysing migrant literature. The text uncovers patterns of movement that migrant texts enact and create – in other words, a movement-oriented poetics. Poetics of the Migrant understands movement as the defining force of human history; and the migrant is the primary figure of cultural and political transformation. Migrant literature makes it possible to transform how we process and interpret social history through social motion. Perhaps, from here, we can imagine a different world: one where movement and migrancy are legible and thinkable.

Free Download Plato’s Laws : force and truth in politics By Sanday, Eric; Plato.; Recco, Gregory
2012 | 258 Pages | ISBN: 0253001781 | EPUB | 5 MB
Readers of Plato have often neglected the Laws because of its length and density. In this set of interpretive essays, notable scholars of the Laws from the fields of classics, history, philosophy, and political science offer a collective close reading of the dialogue "book by book" and reflect on the work as a whole. In their introduction, editors Gregory Recco and Eric Sanday explore the connections among the essays and the dramatic and productive exchanges between the contributors. This volume fills a major gap in studies on Plato’s dialogues by addressing the cultural and historical context of the Laws and highlighting their importance to contemporary scholarship.

Free Download Peter Jordan, "Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas: A Comparative Study of Southern Carinthia (Austria) and the Těšín/Cieszyn Reg"
English | ISBN: 3030694879 | 2021 | 641 pages | PDF | 28 MB
This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations. Using examples from Austria and Czechia as case studies, the authors examine the power of place names through an interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach that draws from the fields of anthropology, geography, sociolinguistics and toponomastics. The book contextualises both places within their social and political histories, and probes recent debates in the social sciences relating to place names, identity and power. It will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on place names and naming practices, minority communities and languages, and linguistic landscapes.