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Academic and accepted orthodoxy maintains that Southeast Asia, and
Asia generally, is evolving into a distinctive East Asian regional
order. This book questions this claim and reveals instead
uncertainty and incoherence at the heart of ASEAN, the region's
foremost institution. The authors provide a systematic critique of
ASEAN's evolution and institutional development, as well as a
unified understanding of the international relations and political
economy of ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific. It is the first study to
provide a sceptical analysis of international relations orthodoxies
regarding regionalization and institutionalism, and is based on
wide-ranging and rigorous research. Students of international
relations, the Asia-Pacific, Southeast Asia, regional studies,
international history and security and defence studies will find
this book of great interest, as will scholars, policy makers and
economic forecasters with an interest in long-term Asia-Pacific
trends.
Recantation and Domestic Violence empowers people and communities
in improving their understanding of and skills in domestic violence
cases that involve recantation. The book illustrates the precise
interpersonal dynamics of recantation in criminal cases in which
felony-level abuse has occurred. This book equips professionals in
working more effectively with domestic violence victims, their
abusers, family members and other supporters. Using the five-stage
model, case examples, and audiotaped telephone conversations
between abusers and their victims, it puts the reader directly in
touch with what abusers say, how they say it, and how victims
respond. The book will be applicable to practitioners and research
audiences in fields such as criminal law, family law, child
custody, violence prevention, therapeutic interventions, medicine,
nursing, psychology, social work, sociology, and behavioral
economics.
The learned editors of this new four-volume collection from
Routledge argue that-at its core-postcolonialism makes two
substantial claims, with corresponding research agendas and
political implications. First, that the emergence and functioning
of the modern world cannot be truly understood and explained as if
it originated in Europe and was then 'exported' to the non-West;
such Eurocentric accounts must be interrogated and challenged.
Second, that since the humanities and social sciences developed in
Europe, as an attempt to make sense of Western developments, the
analytical tools and disciplinary formations by which we seek to
explain and represent the world also need to be critically
questioned, and where necessary, rethought. This timely new
collection from Routledge's Critical Concepts in Political Science
series enables users to comprehend the scope and ambition of these
claims, and to make sense of the dizzying diversity of texts,
generated across different continents and in different languages,
and spanning numerous fields of intellectual and literary
endeavour, that constitute the formative and central works of
Postcolonial Politics. The four volumes that make up the collection
are edited by the directors of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies
at Goldsmiths, University of London, and unite the expertise of
three distinguished scholars who have produced a unique 'mini
library' that is as diverse as its subject matter. Postcolonial
Politics brings together foundational and cutting-edge essays and
journal articles, and it draws on sources from Africa, Latin
America, and Asia, as well as those in the Western world, including
some newly translated pieces. Fully indexed and with new
introductions to each volume, this collection will be welcomed by
scholars, other researchers, and advanced students as an
indispensable reference and pedagogic resource.
Recantation and Domestic Violence empowers people and communities
in improving their understanding of and skills in domestic violence
cases that involve recantation. The book illustrates the precise
interpersonal dynamics of recantation in criminal cases in which
felony-level abuse has occurred. This book equips professionals in
working more effectively with domestic violence victims, their
abusers, family members and other supporters. Using the five-stage
model, case examples, and audiotaped telephone conversations
between abusers and their victims, it puts the reader directly in
touch with what abusers say, how they say it, and how victims
respond. The book will be applicable to practitioners and research
audiences in fields such as criminal law, family law, child
custody, violence prevention, therapeutic interventions, medicine,
nursing, psychology, social work, sociology, and behavioral
economics.
This book is devoted to the inhabitants of the Spanish-Portuguese
borderlands during the early modern period. It seeks to challenge a
predominant historiography focused on the study of borderlands
societies, relying exclusively on the antagonistic topics of
subversion and the construction of boundaries. It states that by
focusing just on one concept or another there is a restrictive
understanding tending to condition the agency of local communities
by external narratives. Thus, if traditionally border people were
reduced by some scholars to actors of a struggle against a
supposedly imposed border; in a more modern perspective, their
behaviors have been also framed in bottom-up processes of
consolidation of spaces of sovereignty in a no less limiting
vision. Faced with both approaches, the objective of this work is
not to deny them but, first and foremost, to situate the
experiences of border populations outside of logics that I
understand as originally alien to themselves, and to highlight
their own subjectivity. Finally, it also demonstrates that most of
the practices developed by border people were fundamentally aimed
at defending their local communities. It will be useful for both
audiences interested in early modern Iberia or border studies from
a bottom-up perspective.
The events of 9/11 gave rise to a new epoch in world history. This
Handbook examines how the world order and our understanding of war
and peace has been transformed since the global war on terror
began. Bringing together expert commentators and academics from
Asia, US, Europe and the Middle East, the Handbook of Terrorism and
Counter Terrorism Post 9/11 assesses regional responses to
terrorism and evaluates the emergence of new threats. This timely
reflection on the consequences of the global war on terror
considers the future of asymmetric conflict in the context of the
fourth industrial revolution, and the evolution of cyber warfare.
Providing an analysis of terrorism since 2001, from Al Qaeda to
Daesh, and a critical evaluation of counter terrorism and counter
insurgency, this Handbook is an essential primer for students, at
all levels, researching terrorism, insurgency, global warfare and
international relations. It will also benefit defence and security
personnel enrolled on postgraduate courses in military academies.
Contributors include: B. Ahlhaus, R. Basra, B. Blair, B. Clifford,
J. Cook, R. Dellios, C. Duncombe, H. Edwards, P.G. Faber, Z. Gold,
M. Groppi, A. Guillaume-Barry, K. Hammerberg, J. Holland-McCowan,
S. Hughes, K.E. Irwin, D.M. Jones, I. Kfrir, A. Kiss, D.L. Knoll,
B.J. Lutz, J.M. Lutz, P. Mahadevan, J. Maszka, J. McDonald, J.
McQuaid, A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, M.-M. Muller, N. Musgrave, A.
Powell, W. Rosenau, J. Rovner, N. Sahak, J. Schroden, P. Schulte,
M.L.R. Smith, T. Stevens, A.T.H. Tan, C. Ungerer, G. Vale, J.R.
Woodier, A. Zingerle
Respectable Professionals contains the contributions of fifteen
experts about the birth of new professions and the modernization of
working practices in old trades in nineteenth-century Spain. The
authors consider that professionalism and respectability were the
most relevant elements which structured the bourgeois society in
the nineteenth century. The economic changes resulting from the
abolition of guilds, the extension of the competences of the State
and the liberalization of the economy contributed greatly to the
renewal of the labour market. This process took place while some
other transformations gave rise to the bourgeois society, such as
the urbanization, the updating of the educational system or the
organization of professional networks and associations. Starting
from the sociology of professions, the book reflects on the
historical and sociocultural elements that influenced the
development of professional society through different case studies
that allow us to compare with other European countries. Nowadays we
are living through similar changes in the labour market that should
lead us to look back and learn from the challenges faced by
professionals in the past.
In From Huhugam to Hohokam: Heritage and Archaeology in the
American Southwest, J. Brett Hill examines the history of O'odham
heritage as it was recorded at the beginning of European conquest.
A parallel history of scientific exploration is then traced forward
to produce intricate models of the coming and going of ancient
peoples. Throughout this history, Native accounts were routinely
dismissed as an inferior kind of knowledge. More recently, though,
a revolutionary change has taken hold in archaeology as Native
insights and premises are integrated into scientific thought.
Integration was once suspected of undermining basic principles of
knowledge, but J. Brett Hill contends that it provides a deeper and
more accurate sense of the connection between living and ancient
people. Hill combines three decades of experience in archaeology
with a liberal arts perspective to produce something for readers at
all levels in the fields of anthropology, Native American studies,
history, museum studies, and other heritage disciplines
Originally published in 1969, Anarchy and Culture both documents
and describes the influence of the student and academic in the case
of revolution and protest within the university. The book looks at
the theory behind the culture of revolution within the contemporary
university and comments upon the affect this has upon teaching, as
well as the student experience. This edited collection contains a
wide range of essays from a broad range of contributors in the
fields of Sociology, English, and Education. Focusing predominately
on study of the university in the UK, the book covers a spread of
political comment, and personal attitude in analysing culture and
anarchy in relation to the contemporary university.
Originally published in 1969, Anarchy and Culture both documents
and describes the influence of the student and academic in the case
of revolution and protest within the university. The book looks at
the theory behind the culture of revolution within the contemporary
university and comments upon the affect this has upon teaching, as
well as the student experience. This edited collection contains a
wide range of essays from a broad range of contributors in the
fields of Sociology, English, and Education. Focusing predominately
on study of the university in the UK, the book covers a spread of
political comment, and personal attitude in analysing culture and
anarchy in relation to the contemporary university.
When is it OK to lie about the past? If history is a story, then
everyone knows that the 'official story' is told by the winners. No
matter what we may know about how the past really happened, history
is as it is recorded: this is what George Orwell called
doublethink. But what happens to all the lost, forgotten, censored,
and disappeared pasts of world history? Cinema Against Doublethink
uncovers how a world of cinemas acts as a giant archive of these
lost pasts, a vast virtual store of the world's memories. The most
enchanting and disturbing films of recent years - Uncle Boonmee Who
Can Recall his Past Lives, Nostalgia for the Light, Even the Rain,
The Act of Killing, Carancho, Lady Vengeance - create ethical
encounters with these lost pasts, covering vast swathes of the
planet and crossing huge eras of time. Analysed using the
philosophies of Gilles Deleuze (the time-image) and Enrique Dussel
(transmodern ethics), the multitudinous cinemas of the world are
shown to speak out against doublethink, countering this biggest lie
of all with their myriad 'false' versions of world history. Cinema,
acting against doublethink, remains a powerful agent for reclaiming
the truth of history for the 'post-truth' era.
Prominent scholars across the political divide and academic
disciplines analyze how the dominant political parties in Malaysia
and Singapore, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the
People's Action Party (PAP), have stayed in power. With a focus on
developments in the last decade and the tenures of Prime Ministers
Najib Tun Razak and Lee Hsien Loong, the authors offer a range of
explanations for how these regimes have remained politically
resilient.
There is a wide consensus that furfural, a renewable commodity
currently obtained from lignocellulosic agro-residues with a
production volume of around 300 kTon per year, is a key feedstock
for leveraging lignocellulosic residues in future biorefineries.
Several chemicals are already being manufactured from furfural due
to its advantageous production cost. Furthermore, a vast number of
others are also technically viable, to produce from oil.This book
compiles the vast existing information into relevant stages of
transformations of furfural as renewable chemicals, biofuels and
bioresins focusing on the relevant chemical and engineering aspects
of processes to obtain them, including reactors and catalysis. It
offers essential information for improving the economic and
environmental viability of current commercial applications and
upcoming future applications.It should be of particular interests
to graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as,
engineers and academic researchers alike who are working in the
field.
In this book David Martin brings together a coherent summary of his
many years of ground-breaking academic work on the sociology of
religion. Covering key and contentious areas from the last
half-century such as secularisation, religion and violence, and the
global rise of Pentecostalism, it presents a critical recuperation
of these themes, some of them first initiated by the author, and a
review of their reception history. It then reviews that reception
history in a way that discusses not only the subjects themselves,
but also the academic practices that have surrounded them. As such,
this collection is vital reading for all academics with an interest
in David Martin's work, as well as those involved with the
sociology of religion and the study of secularisation more
generally.
To suppose that God has a providential plan based on a special
covenant with Israel and realised in the atonement presents us with
a moral problem. In Ruin and Restoration David Martin sketches a
radical naturalistic account of the atonement based on the innocent
paying for the sins of the guilty through ordinary social
processes. An exercise in socio-theology, the book reflects on the
contrast between 'the world' governed by the dynamic of violence as
analysed by the social sciences, including international relations,
and the emergence in Christianity (and Buddhism) of a non-violent
alternative. A 'governing essay' fuses frameworks drawn from
Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Jaspers, Ernst Troeltsch and Max Weber and
explores the relation between the cultural sciences, especially
sociology, and theology treated as another but very distinctive
cultural science. Six commentaries then deal with the atonement in
detail; with the nature of Christian language and grammar, and with
its characteristic mutations due to necessary compromises with 'the
world'; with sex and violence; and with the liturgy as a
concentrated mode of reconciliation.
To suppose that God has a providential plan based on a special
covenant with Israel and realised in the atonement presents us with
a moral problem. In Ruin and Restoration David Martin sketches a
radical naturalistic account of the atonement based on the innocent
paying for the sins of the guilty through ordinary social
processes. An exercise in socio-theology, the book reflects on the
contrast between 'the world' governed by the dynamic of violence as
analysed by the social sciences, including international relations,
and the emergence in Christianity (and Buddhism) of a non-violent
alternative. A 'governing essay' fuses frameworks drawn from
Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Jaspers, Ernst Troeltsch and Max Weber and
explores the relation between the cultural sciences, especially
sociology, and theology treated as another but very distinctive
cultural science. Six commentaries then deal with the atonement in
detail; with the nature of Christian language and grammar, and with
its characteristic mutations due to necessary compromises with 'the
world'; with sex and violence; and with the liturgy as a
concentrated mode of reconciliation.
There are few more contentious issues than the relation of faith to
power or the suggestion that religion is irrational compared with
politics and peculiarly prone to violence. The former claim is
associated with Juergen Habermas and the latter with Richard
Dawkins. In this book David Martin argues, against Habermas, that
religion and politics share a common mythic basis and that it is
misleading to contrast the rationality of politics with the
irrationality of religion. In contrast to Richard Dawkins (and New
Atheists generally), Martin argues that the approach taken is
brazenly unscientific and that the proclivity to violence is a
shared feature of religion, nationalism and political ideology
alike rooted in the demands of power and social solidarity. The
book concludes by considering the changing ecology of faith and
power at both centre and periphery in monuments, places and spaces.
F. David Martin (Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Chicago) taught
at Bucknell University until his retirement in 1983. A Fulbright
Research scholar in Florence and Rome from 1957 through 1959, he
was a recipient of seven other major research grants as well the
Christian Lindback. Award for distinguished teaching. Dr. Martin is
the author of
This book offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David
Martin over some fifty years, complementing his book On
Secularization. Deploying secularisation as an omnibus word
bringing many dimensions into play, Martin argues that the
boundaries of the concept of secularisation must not be redefined
simply to cover aberrant cases, as when the focus was more on
America as an exception rather than on Europe as an exception to
the 'furiously religious' character of the rest of the world.
Particular themes of focus include the dialectic of Christianity
and secularization, the relation of Christianity to multiple
enlightenments and modes of modernity, the enigmas of East Germany
and Eastern Europe, and the rise of the transnational religious
voluntary association, including Pentecostalism, as that feeds into
vast religious changes in the developing world. Doubts are cast on
the idea that religion has ever been privatised and has lately
reentered the public realm. The rest of the book deals with the
relation of the Christian repertoire to the nexus of religion and
politics, including democracy and violence and sharply criticises
polemical assertions of a special relation of religion to violence,
and explores the contributions of 'cognitive science' to the debate
This book offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David
Martin over some fifty years, complementing his book On
Secularization. Deploying secularisation as an omnibus word
bringing many dimensions into play, Martin argues that the
boundaries of the concept of secularisation must not be redefined
simply to cover aberrant cases, as when the focus was more on
America as an exception rather than on Europe as an exception to
the 'furiously religious' character of the rest of the world.
Particular themes of focus include the dialectic of Christianity
and secularization, the relation of Christianity to multiple
enlightenments and modes of modernity, the enigmas of East Germany
and Eastern Europe, and the rise of the transnational religious
voluntary association, including Pentecostalism, as that feeds into
vast religious changes in the developing world. Doubts are cast on
the idea that religion has ever been privatised and has lately
reentered the public realm. The rest of the book deals with the
relation of the Christian repertoire to the nexus of religion and
politics, including democracy and violence and sharply criticises
polemical assertions of a special relation of religion to violence,
and explores the contributions of 'cognitive science' to the debate
Academic and accepted orthodoxy maintains that Southeast Asia, and
Asia generally, is evolving into a distinctive East Asian regional
order. This book questions this claim and reveals instead
uncertainty and incoherence at the heart of ASEAN, the region's
foremost institution. The authors provide a systematic critique of
ASEAN's evolution and institutional development, as well as a
unified understanding of the international relations and political
economy of ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific. It is the first study to
provide a sceptical analysis of international relations orthodoxies
regarding regionalization and institutionalism, and is based on
wide-ranging and rigorous research. Students of international
relations, the Asia-Pacific, Southeast Asia, regional studies,
international history and security and defence studies will find
this book of great interest, as will scholars, policy makers and
economic forecasters with an interest in long-term Asia-Pacific
trends.
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