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Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus - A World-System Biography (Paperback)
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Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus - A World-System Biography (Paperback)
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Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus is a gripping account of
the developmental dynamics involved in the collapse of Soviet
socialism. Fusing a narrative of human agency to his critical
discussion of structural forces, Georgi M. Derluguian reconstructs
from first-hand accounts the life story of Musa Shanib - who from a
small town in the Caucasus grew to be a prominent leader in the
Chechen revolution. In his examination of Shanib and his keen
interest in the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, Derluguian discerns
how and why this dissident intellectual became a nationalist
warlord. Exploring globalization, democratization, ethnic identity,
and international terrorism, Derluguian contextualizes Shanib's
personal trajectory from de-Stalinization through the nationalist
rebellions of the 1990s to the recent rise in Islamic militancy. He
masterfully reveals not only how external economic and political
forces affect the former Soviet republics but also how those forces
are in turn shaped by the individuals, institutions, ethnicities,
and social networks that make up those societies. Drawing on the
work of Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, and, of course,
Bourdieu, Derluguian's explanation of the recent ethnic wars and
terrorist acts in Russia succeeds in illuminating the role of human
agency in shaping history.
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