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Public Freedom (Paperback): Dana Villa Public Freedom (Paperback)
Dana Villa
R930 R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Save R188 (20%) Out of stock

The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and liberties. In "Public Freedom," renowned political theorist Dana Villa argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of American democracy itself.

Through intense close readings of theorists such as Hegel, Tocqueville, Mill, Adorno, Arendt, and Foucault, Villa diagnoses the key causes of our democratic discontent and offers solutions to preserve at least some of our democratic hopes. He demonstrates how Americans' preoccupation with a market-based conception of freedom--that is, the personal freedom to choose among different material, moral, and vocational goods--has led to the gradual erosion of meaningful public participation in politics as well as diminished interest in the health of the public realm itself. Villa critically examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of civil society and associational life as sources of democratic renewal; the effects of mass media on the public arena; and the problematic but still necessary ideas of civic competence and democratic maturity.

"Public Freedom" is a passionate and insightful defense of political liberties at a moment in America's history when such freedoms are very much at risk.

The Hillary Doctrine - Sex and American Foreign Policy (Hardcover): Valerie Hudson, Patricia Leidl The Hillary Doctrine - Sex and American Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
Valerie Hudson, Patricia Leidl; Foreword by Swanee Hunt
R813 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R127 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force for domestic and international peace. Blending history, fieldwork, theory, and policy analysis while incorporating perspectives from officials and activists on the front lines of implementation, this book is the first to thoroughly investigate the Hillary Doctrine in principle and practice. Does the insecurity of women make nations less secure? How has the doctrine changed the foreign policy of the United States and altered its relationship with other countries such as China and Saudi Arabia? With studies focusing on Guatemala, Afghanistan, and Yemen, this invaluable policy text closes the gap between rhetoric and reality, confronting head-on what the future of fighting such an entrenched enemy entails. The research reports directly on the work being done by U.S. government agencies, including the Office of Global Women's Issues, established by Clinton during her tenure at the State Department, and explores the complexity and pitfalls of attempting to improve the lives of women while safeguarding the national interest.

Rape - From Lucretia to #MeToo (Hardcover): Mithu Sanyal Rape - From Lucretia to #MeToo (Hardcover)
Mithu Sanyal
R474 R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Save R44 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From Title IX cases on campus, to #metoo and #timesup, rape is a definitive issue at the heart of feminism, and lately, it's barely out of the news. Cultural critic Mithu Sanyal is picking up where Susan Brownmiller left off in her influential 1975 book Against Our Will. In fact, she argues that the way we understand rape hasn't changed since then, even as the world has changed beyond recognition. She contends that it is high time for a new and informed debate about rape, sexual boundaries and consent. Sanyal argues that the way we as a society understand rape tells us not just how we understand sexual violence, but how we understand sex, sexuality, and gender itself. For instance, why is it so hard to imagine men as victims of rape? Why do we expect victims to be irreparably damaged? When we think of rapists, why do we still think of strangers in dark alleys, rather than uncles, husbands, priests, or boyfriends? The book examines the role of race and the trope of the black rapist, the omission of male victims, and what we mean when we talk about rape culture. She provocatively takes every received opinion we have about rape, and turns it inside out - arguing with liberals, conservatives, feminists and sexists alike.

Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? - Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism (Paperback):... Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? - Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism (Paperback)
Alan Gilbert
R1,329 R1,186 Discovery Miles 11 860 Save R143 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As each power vies for its national interests on the world stage, how do its own citizens' democratic interests fare at home? Alan Gilbert speaks to an issue at the heart of current international-relations debate. He contends that, in spite of neo-realists' assumptions, a vocal citizen democracy can and must have a role in global politics. Further, he shows that all the major versions of realism and neo-realism, if properly stated with a view of the national interest as a common good, surprisingly lead to democracy. His most striking example focuses on realist criticisms of the Vietnam War.

Democratic internationalism, as Gilbert terms it, is really the linking of citizens' interests across national boundaries to overcome the antidemocratic actions of their own governments. Realist misinterpretations have overlooked Thucydides' theme about how a democracy corrupts itself through imperial expansion as well as Karl Marx's observations about the positive effects of democratic movements in one country on events in others. Gilbert also explodes the democratic peace myth that democratic states do not wage war on one another. He suggests instead policies to accord with the interests of ordinary citizens whose shared bond is a desire for peace.

Gilbert shows, through such successes as recent treaties on land mines and policies to slow global warming that citizen movements can have salutary effects. His theory of "deliberative democracy" proposes institutional changes that would give the voice of ordinary citizens a greater influence on the international actions of their own government.

The Paradox of Liberation - Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions (Paperback): Michael Walzer The Paradox of Liberation - Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions (Paperback)
Michael Walzer
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A thought-provoking reflection on why secular national liberation movements are so often challenged by militant religious revivals Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer, one of America's foremost political thinkers, examines this perplexing trend by studying India, Israel, and Algeria, three nations whose founding principles and institutions have been sharply attacked by three completely different groups of religious revivalists: Hindu militants, ultra-Orthodox Jews and messianic Zionists, and Islamic radicals. In his provocative, well-reasoned discussion, Walzer asks, Why have these secular democratic movements been unable to reproduce their political culture beyond one or two generations? In a postscript, he compares the difficulties of contemporary secularism to the successful establishment of secular politics in the early American republic-thereby making an argument for American exceptionalism but gravely noting that we may be less exceptional today.

Identifying A Free Society - Conditions and Indicators (Paperback): Milan Zafirovski Identifying A Free Society - Conditions and Indicators (Paperback)
Milan Zafirovski
R1,282 Discovery Miles 12 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Identifying a Free Society Milan Zafirovski offers a holistic sociological approach to modern free society as a total social system. The book examines the main conditions and indicators of modern free society such as democracy, a free economy, a free culture, and a free civil society, hence political, economic, cultural, and individual liberty entwined with equality and justice. It provides specific and aggregate free-society estimates for Western and related societies based on a variety of objective rankings, data, and reports.

What is the True Price of Freedom (Hardcover): Mario Bekes What is the True Price of Freedom (Hardcover)
Mario Bekes
R919 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R171 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Contentious Public Sphere - Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China (Paperback): Ya-Wen Lei The Contentious Public Sphere - Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China (Paperback)
Ya-Wen Lei
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? In The Contentious Public Sphere, Ya-Wen Lei shows how the Chinese state drew on law, the media, and the Internet to further an authoritarian project of modernization, but in so doing, inadvertently created a nationwide public sphere in China-one the state must now endeavor to control. Lei examines the influence this unruly sphere has had on Chinese politics and the ways that the state has responded. Using interviews, newspaper articles, online texts, official documents, and national surveys, Lei shows that the development of the public sphere in China has provided an unprecedented forum for citizens to influence the public agenda, demand accountability from the government, and organize around the concepts of law and rights. She demonstrates how citizens came to understand themselves as legal subjects, how legal and media professionals began to collaborate in unexpected ways, and how existing conditions of political and economic fragmentation created unintended opportunities for political critique, particularly with the rise of the Internet. The emergence of this public sphere-and its uncertain future-is a pressing issue with important implications for the political prospects of the Chinese people. Investigating how individuals learn to use public discourse to influence politics, The Contentious Public Sphere offers new possibilities for thinking about the transformation of state-society relations.

How I Became a Madman - Parables of Folly and Wisdom (Paperback): Kahill Gibran How I Became a Madman - Parables of Folly and Wisdom (Paperback)
Kahill Gibran
R474 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R90 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Known for his evocative book The Prophet, Gibran's most original work delineates madness ― the existential angst of melancholy and misfortune that separates the individual from society, not a formal mental illness. Gibran contrasts the normal individual who conforms to society’s class, role, law, and behavior, with one who sees through hypocrisy, semblance, power, and judges others as ignorant, deceived, or treacherous -- the madman. While the world classifies him as mad, he is the wise one.

HOW I BECAME A MADMAN consists of 34 short multi-paragraph sketches, vignettes, parables, and tales composed in a Nietzschean prophetic voice, the insights of Blake, and Eastern story-tellers. The opening passage presents Gibran's theme of madness as social separation:

“You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen -- the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives. I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, "Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves."

Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.

And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, "He is a madman." I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks."

Thus I became a madman.

And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.”

Gibran shows that we wear masks to get along society that demands conformity for collective purposes, whereas to act without a mask, to think and speak and behave without the veil of illusion is to be mad. While being maskless frees us, it carries a risk of loneliness and misunderstanding as we become estranged from others. The Madman goes unnoticed, not listened to, and pitied by others.

The press for conformity absorbs society like nothing else. When we look beneath the masks of daily life, we find hypocrisy, greed, pride, sloth, ambition, vanity, conformity. These people do not see anything wrong with the ways of the world. Instead, in madness there is wisdom.

In HOW I BECAME A MADMAN a youth wants but to be himself, not what his parents and family demand he be, so he has fled to a madhouse ―his hermitage ― to be what he wants to be.

This is a heart-felt critique of hypocrisy, wealth, arrogance, and power versus the individual. Who has learned to disengage, to keep a distance while nevertheless relating to others with compassion and kindness.

(Kahill Gibran)

Cybersecurity Governance in Latin America - States, Threats, and Alliances (Hardcover): Carlos Solar Cybersecurity Governance in Latin America - States, Threats, and Alliances (Hardcover)
Carlos Solar
R2,769 Discovery Miles 27 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Interceptor (Paperback): Cameron Addicott, Kris Hollington The Interceptor (Paperback)
Cameron Addicott, Kris Hollington
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Private Investigation - Short Story Confessions of a Private Investigator (A Pocket-friendly Step by Step Guide) (Paperback):... Private Investigation - Short Story Confessions of a Private Investigator (A Pocket-friendly Step by Step Guide) (Paperback)
Bonnie Hayes
R512 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R94 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
CHANGING MINDS OR CHANGING CHANNELS? - PARTISANNEWS IN AN AGE OF CHOICE (Paperback): Kevin Arceneaux, Martin Johnson CHANGING MINDS OR CHANGING CHANNELS? - PARTISANNEWS IN AN AGE OF CHOICE (Paperback)
Kevin Arceneaux, Martin Johnson
R893 Discovery Miles 8 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote - or mouse - we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choice? Partisan news has been roundly castigated for reinforcing prior beliefs and contributing to the highly polarized political environment we have today, but there is little evidence to support this claim, and much of what we know about the impact of news media come from studies that were conducted at a time when viewers chose from among six channels rather than scores. Through a series of innovative experiments, Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson show that such criticism is unfounded. Americans who watch cable news are already polarized, and their exposure to partisan programming of their choice does not significantly change their initial position. In fact, the opposite is true: viewers become more polarized when forced to watch programming that opposes their beliefs. A much more troubling consequence of the ever-expanding media environment, the authors show, is that it has allowed people to tune out the news: the four top-rated partisan news programs draw a mere three percent of the total number of people watching television. Overturning much of the conventional wisdom, Changing Minds or Changing Channels? demonstrates that the strong effects of media exposure found in past research are simply not applicable in today's more saturated media landscape.

Surviving Justice - America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated (Paperback): Voice of Witness Surviving Justice - America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated (Paperback)
Voice of Witness
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors-overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification-found themselves imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. The stories these exonerated men and women tell are spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring.

Religious Minorities in Turkey - Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and the Struggle to Desecuritize Religious Freedom (Hardcover,... Religious Minorities in Turkey - Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and the Struggle to Desecuritize Religious Freedom (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Mehmet Bardakci, Annette Freyberg-Inan, Christoph Giesel, Olaf Leisse
R3,371 Discovery Miles 33 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book considers the key issue of Turkey's treatment of minorities in relation to its complex paths of both European integration and domestic and international reorientation. The expectations of Turkey's EU and other international counterparts, as well as important domestic demands, have pushed Turkey to broaden the rights of religious and other minorities. More recently a turn towards autocratic government is rolling back some earlier achievements. This book shows how these broader processes affect the lives of three important religious groups in Turkey: the Alevi as a large Muslim community and the Christian communities of Armenians and Syriacs. Drawing on a wealth of original data and extensive fieldwork, the authors compare and explain improvements, set-backs, and lingering concerns for Turkey's religious minorities and identify important challenges for Turkey's future democratic development and European path. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of minority politics, contemporary Turkish politics, and religion and politics.

What is the True Price of Freedom (Paperback): Mario Bekes What is the True Price of Freedom (Paperback)
Mario Bekes
R574 R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Save R103 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
This President - 101 Reasons to Re-Elect Donald Trump (Paperback): J Preta Simon This President - 101 Reasons to Re-Elect Donald Trump (Paperback)
J Preta Simon
R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Going Dirty - The Art of Negative Campaigning (Hardcover): David Mark Going Dirty - The Art of Negative Campaigning (Hardcover)
David Mark
R685 R579 Discovery Miles 5 790 Save R106 (15%) Out of stock

Going Dirty is a history of negative campaigning in American politics and an examination of how candidates and political consultants have employed this often-controversial technique. The book includes case studies on notable races throughout the television era in which new negative campaign strategies were introduced, or existing tactics were refined and amplified upon. Strategies have included labeling opponents from non-traditional political backgrounds as dumb or lightweight, an approach that got upended when a veteran actor and rookie candidate named Ronald Reagan won the California governorship in 1966, setting him on a path to the White House. The negative tone of campaigns has also been ratcheted up dramatically since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: Campaign commercials now routinely run pictures of international villains and suggest, sometimes overtly, at other times more subtly, that political opponents are less than resolute in prosecuting the war on terror. The book also outlines a series of races in which negative campaigning has backfired, because the charges were not credible or the candidate on the attack did not understand the political sentiments of the local electorate they were trying to persuade. The effect of newer technologies on negative campaigning is also examined, including blogs and Web video, in addition to tried and true methods like direct mail.

The Road to Freedom - How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise (Hardcover, New): Arthur Brooks The Road to Freedom - How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise (Hardcover, New)
Arthur Brooks
R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: These traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America's exceptional culture. In recent years, however, policymakers have dramatically weakened these traditions,by exploding the size of government, propping up their corporate cronies, and trying to reorient our system from rewarding merit to redistributing wealth.In The Road to Freedom , American Enterprise Institute President Arthur C. Brooks shows that this trend cannot be reversed through materialistic appeals about the economic efficiency of capitalism. Rather, free enterprise requires a moral defence rooted in the ideals of earned success, equality of opportunity, charity, and basic fairness. Brooks builds this defence and demonstrates how it is central to understanding the major policy issues facing America today.The future of the free enterprise system has become a central issue in our national debate, and Brooks offers a practical manual for defending it over the coming years. Both a moral manifesto and a prescription for concrete policy changes, The Road to Freedom will help Americans in all walks of life translate the philosophy of free enterprise into action, to restore both our nation's greatness and our own well-being in the process.

Punjab - A Tale of State Terrorism, Persecution, Econocide, and Genocide (Paperback): Bakhshish Singh Sandhu Punjab - A Tale of State Terrorism, Persecution, Econocide, and Genocide (Paperback)
Bakhshish Singh Sandhu
R633 R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Save R97 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The concepts of freedom and authenticity in existentialism are studied in Sartre. (Paperback): Sumukhi G P The concepts of freedom and authenticity in existentialism are studied in Sartre. (Paperback)
Sumukhi G P
R1,327 R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Save R296 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Presidential Privilege and the Freedom of Information Act (Paperback): Kevin M. Baron Presidential Privilege and the Freedom of Information Act (Paperback)
Kevin M. Baron
R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Freedom of Information Act, developed at the height of the Cold War, highlighted the power struggles between Congress and the president in that tumultuous era. By drawing on previously unseen primary source material and exhaustive archival research, this book reveals the largely untold and fascinating narrative of the development of the FOIA, and demonstrates how this single policy issue transformed presidential behaviour. The author explores the policy's lasting influence on the politics surrounding contemporary debates on government secrecy, public records and the public's 'right to know', and examines the modern development and use of 'executive privilege'.

Guide To Rekindle The Passion In Your Marriage - Liking And Loving Over The Long Term: Practical Ideas For Relationships... Guide To Rekindle The Passion In Your Marriage - Liking And Loving Over The Long Term: Practical Ideas For Relationships (Paperback)
Travis Coreen
R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Politically Incorrect - The Rantings of the Silent American (Paperback): Perry Flann Collum Politically Incorrect - The Rantings of the Silent American (Paperback)
Perry Flann Collum
R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities (Hardcover): Paula Braveman The Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities (Hardcover)
Paula Braveman
R1,312 Discovery Miles 13 120 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A growing body of knowledge has revealed the profound impact of the social determinants of health—the social, political, and economic factors apart from health care that influence health. The question is no longer if social factors are important influences on health, but rather how social factors operate and how to address them most effectively, efficiently, and equitably. Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities is a comprehensive resource for students and educators to understand the wide-ranging effects of social and political factors, including racism, on individual health. Drawing on Paula Braveman's seminal work in health equity, this volume explains how upstream drivers like law and policy are at the beginning of causal chains influencing health, and in particular how systemic issues like racism are core drivers of health outcomes. Each chapter examines how different social determinants of health—such as income, education, stress, work, and racism—are impacted by upstream social factors and how those factors influence health and health disparities through complex pathways. Chapters also include approaches for future practitioners and policymakers to most effectively activate health-promoting pathways while interrupting health-damaging ones. Complete with chapter summaries and discussion questions, Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities is the definitive classroom guide to understanding and addressing social disparities in health, particularly racial and socioeconomic disparities.

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