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In Citizenship After Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein
and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context
of intense political polarization, the surge of far-right
nationalism and deepening divisions during the coronavirus
pandemic. With both Trumpism and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
greatly testing American democracy, the authors examine the
political, economic and cultural challenges that remain after the
Trump Administration's exceedingly inept leadership response. They
explore the promise and limits of democracy relative to
long-standing traditions of American political thought. The book
argues that all Americans should consider the claims of citizenship
amidst the forces consolidating today around narrow conceptions of
race, nation, ethnicity and religion-each of which imperils the
institutions of democracy and strikes at the heart of the country's
political culture. Chapters on the media, political economy,
fascism and social democracy explore what Americans have gotten so
wrong politically and considers what kind of vision can, in the
years ahead, lead the country out of a truly dangerous impasse.
Citizenship After Trump is an invaluable and timely resource for
self-critical analysis and will stimulate focused discussions about
as yet unexplored regions of America's political history.
In Citizenship After Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein
and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context
of intense political polarization, the surge of far-right
nationalism and deepening divisions during the coronavirus
pandemic. With both Trumpism and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
greatly testing American democracy, the authors examine the
political, economic and cultural challenges that remain after the
Trump Administration's exceedingly inept leadership response. They
explore the promise and limits of democracy relative to
long-standing traditions of American political thought. The book
argues that all Americans should consider the claims of citizenship
amidst the forces consolidating today around narrow conceptions of
race, nation, ethnicity and religion-each of which imperils the
institutions of democracy and strikes at the heart of the country's
political culture. Chapters on the media, political economy,
fascism and social democracy explore what Americans have gotten so
wrong politically and considers what kind of vision can, in the
years ahead, lead the country out of a truly dangerous impasse.
Citizenship After Trump is an invaluable and timely resource for
self-critical analysis and will stimulate focused discussions about
as yet unexplored regions of America's political history.
This volume examines and critiques several of the classical
theoretical foundations of domestic and international organization,
concentrating on the contestable conceptions of community, order,
justice, freedom, responsibility and wealth developed by the major
political theorists of the modern epoch.
Nelson argues that the accepted discourses of world politics are
constructed by way of particular interpretive negotiations of what
sovereign power is and what it must be made to accomplish in
domestic and world politics. Providing a Foucaultian analysis of
modern power and the liberal subject, the work traces the history
of modern inquiries into sovereignty to a time when the state was
being severed from a Christian eschatology, a time when political
theorists sought ways of lending meaning and purpose to emerging
conceptions of the political.
Modern theories of sovereignty, Nelson argues, embody the
remainders of a deep worry over the precarious nature of
legitimacy, the contingency of power, and the frailty of any
political form. The theoretical traditions of liberalism and the
Enlightenment dispense with anxiety over the politics of legitimacy
by repressing the historical, constricting the political, and
fashioning political rationalities suited to increasingly intimate
and ever-expansive forms of liberal governance. This book aims to
explore how modern theories of sovereignty elicit and effect
governable subjects and forms of political community that have
proven crucial to intensifying and expansive powers of the liberal
state.
An inquiry into modern theories of sovereignty and statecraft
and a critical interrogation of how political theories are invoked
by the traditions of international relations across the modern era,
this volume will be of interest to all scholars of political
theory, political philosophy and international relations.
This volume examines and critiques several of the classical
theoretical foundations of domestic and international organization,
concentrating on the contestable conceptions of community, order,
justice, freedom, responsibility and wealth developed by the major
political theorists of the modern epoch.
Nelson argues that the accepted discourses of world politics are
constructed by way of particular interpretive negotiations of what
sovereign power is and what it must be made to accomplish in
domestic and world politics. Providing a Foucaultian analysis of
modern power and the liberal subject, the work traces the history
of modern inquiries into sovereignty to a time when the state was
being severed from a Christian eschatology, a time when political
theorists sought ways of lending meaning and purpose to emerging
conceptions of the political.
Modern theories of sovereignty, Nelson argues, embody the
remainders of a deep worry over the precarious nature of
legitimacy, the contingency of power, and the frailty of any
political form. The theoretical traditions of liberalism and the
Enlightenment dispense with anxiety over the politics of legitimacy
by repressing the historical, constricting the political, and
fashioning political rationalities suited to increasingly intimate
and ever-expansive forms of liberal governance. This book aims to
explore how modern theories of sovereignty elicit and effect
governable subjects and forms of political community that have
proven crucial to intensifying and expansive powers of the liberal
state.
An inquiry into modern theories of sovereignty and statecraft
and a critical interrogation of how political theories are invoked
by the traditions of international relations across the modern era,
this volume will be of interest to all scholars of political
theory, political philosophy and international relations.
This book is an outgrowth of a much earlier book, Farm Structures,
by H. J. Barre and L. L. Sammet, published by John Wiley & Sons
in 1950 as one of a series of textbooks in agricultural engineering
spon sored by the Ferguson Foundation, Detroit, Michigan. Light
Agricul tural and Industrial Structures: Analysis and Design will
be useful as an undergraduate student textbook for junior-or
senior-level compre hensive courses on structural analysis and
design in steel, wood, and concrete, and as a reference work for
practicing engineers. Emphasis is on basic analysis and design
procedures. The book should be useful in any country where there is
a need to design structures for agricul tural production and
processing. It is assumed that readers have had prerequisite course
work in engineering mechanics and strength of materials as
typically taught to undergraduate engineering students. The scope
of this book is wide; it might be difficult for instructors and
students to cover all of the chapters in a typical three
credit-hour course. The instructor will need to assess his own
situation and scheduling constraints. More or less time could be
spent on chapters one through five, depending on the capability the
students already have in analysis of statically deter minate and
indeterminate structures. Two to three weeks might then be
allocated for study of each of the last six chapters dealing with
design in steel, reinforced concrete, and wood."
The tissue culture approach to the study of membrane properties of
excitable cells has progressed beyond the technical problems of
culture methodology. Recent developments have fostered substantive
contributions in research con cerned with the physiology,
pharmacology, and biophysics of cell membranes in tissue culture.
The scope of this volume is related to the application of tissue
culture methodology to developmental processes and cellular
mechanisms of electrical and chemical excitability. The major
emphasis will be on the body of new biological information made
available by the analytic possibilities inherent in the tissue
culture systems. Naturally occurring preparations of excitable
cells are frequently of suf ficient morphological complexity to
compromise the analysis of the data obtained from them. Some of the
limitations associated with dissected prepa rations have to do with
the direct visualization of and access to the cell(s) in question
and maintenance of steady-state conditions for prolonged periods of
time. Since preparations in tissue culture can circumvent these
problems, it is feasible to analyze the properties of identifiable
cells, grown either singly or in prescribed geometries, as well as
to follow the development of cellular inter actions. A crucial
consideration in the use of cultured preparations is that they must
faithfully capture the phenomenon of interest to the investigator.
This and other potential limitations on the methodology are of
necessary concern in the present volume.
Anyone interested in comparative biology or the history of
science will find this myth-busting work genuinely fascinating. It
draws attention to the seminal studies and important advances that
have shaped systematic and biogeographic thinking. It traces
concepts in homology and classification from the 19th century to
the present through the provision of a unique anthology of
scientific writings from Goethe, Agassiz, Owen, Naef, Zangerl and
Nelson, among others.
Anyone interested in comparative biology or the history of
science will find this myth-busting work genuinely fascinating. It
draws attention to the seminal studies and important advances that
have shaped systematic and biogeographic thinking. It traces
concepts in homology and classification from the 19th century to
the present through the provision of a unique anthology of
scientific writings from Goethe, Agassiz, Owen, Naef, Zangerl and
Nelson, among others.
Get on the path to increased flexibility and improved muscular
strength! With more than 450,000 copies sold worldwide, Stretching
Anatomy, Third Edition, is your go-to guide for seeing inside the
stretches that will help you increase range of motion, enhance
recovery, and facilitate ease of movement during physical and
everyday activities. The visually stunning illustrations of 79
stretches cover all major joint areas of the body from the feet to
the neck. Each stretch includes step-by-step instructions on how to
perform the stretch, the names of the muscles stretched, and a
Stretch Notes section detailing the procedures and benefits of
every exercise as well as safety considerations and variations for
increasing or decreasing difficulty. You'll find suggested
stretching programs for daily mobility and flexibility, including
stretches for people who sit or stand for extended periods, as well
as a program proven to help lower blood glucose. Sport-specific
stretching routines for 23 different sports are included for
athletes and their trainers who want to improve flexibility,
maximize efficiency of movement, and enhance recovery from training
and competing in their chosen sport. If tight hips, frozen
shoulder, limited neck mobility, leg cramps, arthritis, or general
muscle soreness are conditions you're all too familiar with, use
Stretching Anatomy, Third Edition, to develop a regular stretching
routine that will help you move and feel better. CE exam available!
For certified professionals, a companion continuing education exam
is available that can be completed after reading this book. The
Stretching Anatomy, Third Edition Online CE Exam, may be purchased
separately or as part of the Stretching Anatomy, Third Edition With
CE Exam, package that includes both the book and the exam.
Rising inequality, the advance of far-right populism, ecological
and climatic catastrophe and the scourge of global pandemic disease
- these are among the defining crises of our time. Addressing the
governing challenges posed by each requires a more expansive vision
of the scope and possibilities of state action than political
scientists and economists have furnished to date. In Statecraft and
the Political Economy of Capitalism political economists Scott G.
Nelson and Joel T. Shelton examine several key social and political
dynamics of advanced capitalism for insights into the fate of
equality, community and solidarity. In chapters addressing
divergent problems and spanning several centuries, statecraft is
presented as a conceptual lens through which the art and practice
of public action is continually rearticulated in response to the
shifting economic, social and political conditions of a given
epoch. The authors examine several consequential moments in the
long tradition of political economy in relation to the governing
predicaments of the present day, highlighting those predicaments
that bear upon the well-being of all people, especially society's
most vulnerable. The book thus reintroduces the creative and
purposive aspects of governing to the study and practice of
Political Economy, a field that has been too preoccupied with
technical, institutional and procedural aspects of economic
management. Framing problems of governing national and global
economies in relation to the craft of the state means searching out
continuities between capitalism's early promise and present peril.
A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of design culture and
outlines a design-driven way to approach the world. Humans did not
discover fire-they designed it. Design is not defined by software
programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we create new
things-technologies, organizations, processes, systems,
environments, ways of thinking-we engage in design. With this
expansive view of design as their premise, in The Design Way Harold
Nelson and Erik Stolterman make the case for design as its own
culture of inquiry and action. They offer not a recipe for design
practice or theorizing but a formulation of design culture's
fundamental core of ideas. These ideas-which form "the design
way"-are applicable to an infinite variety of design domains, from
such traditional fields as architecture and graphic design to such
nontraditional design areas as organizational, educational,
interaction, and healthcare design. The text of this second edition
is accompanied by new detailed images, "schemas" that visualize,
conceptualize, and structure the authors' understanding of design
inquiry. The text itself has been revised and expanded throughout,
in part in response to reader feedback.
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