Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2008

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• Africa Yearbook Volume 4

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  • Editors Klaas Walraven; Henning Melber; Andreas Mehler
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  • The Africa Yearbook is a reliable source of reference covering major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends of all sub-Saharan states – all related to developments in one calendar year.

• Alasdair MacIntyre's Engagement with Marxism

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  • Editors Paul Blackledge; Neil Douglas Davidson
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  • This selection of Alasdair MacIntyre’s early writings on Marxism and ethics aims both to fill a gap in the academic literature on MacIntyre’s ethical theory, and to offer a contribution to more recent debates on the ethics of revolution.

• Canis Africanis

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  • Authors: Van Sittert; Swart
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  • The role of the dog in human society is the connecting thread that binds the essays in Canis Africanis, each revealing a different part of the complex social history of southern Africa. The essays range widely from concerns over disease, bestiality, and social degradation through gambling on dogs to anxieties over social status reflected through breed classifications, and social rebellion through resisting the dog tax imposed by colonial authorities. With its focus on dogs in human history, this project is part of what has been termed the ‘animal turn’ in the social sciences, which investigates the spaces which animals inhabit in human society and the way in which animal and human lives interconnect, demonstrating how different human groups construct a range of identities for themselves (and for others) in terms of animals. So instead of conceiving of animals as merely constituents of ecological or agricultural systems, they can be comprehended through their role in human cultures.

• Civil-Military Cooperation in Response to a Complex Emergency

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  • Author: S.J.H. Rietjens
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  • Taking a business alliance approach, this book analyses civil-military cooperation processes in Kosovo, Kabul and the Afghan province Baghlan. It identifies the phases in these processes, highlights main factors and proposes a framework for evaluating the quality of civil-military cooperation.

• Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism

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  • Editors Gregory Elliott; Eustache/Stathis Kouvelakis; Gregory Elliott
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  • International and interdisciplinary in range and scope, the Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism provides a thorough and precise panorama of recent developments in Marxist theory in the US, Europe and beyond.

• The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan

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  • Editors Florian Coulmas; Harald Conrad; Annette Schad-Seifert; Gabriele Vogt
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  • This Handbook explores the challenges population change poses to today’s Japan. Bringing together a roster of internationally renowned scholars, it is the first publication in English that deals with Japan’s demographic crisis in a comprehensive way, addressing social, economic, political, social security and cultural aspects of Japan’s transition.

• Dialectic of Solidarity

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  • Author: Mark P. Worrell
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  • Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon unpublished research reports of the Frankfurt School and represents a unique and multidimensional view of the political imagination of the wartime American worker and the problem of antisemitism.

• Elites: New Comparative Perspectives

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  • Author: M. Sasaki
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  • Elites come in many forms, as reflected by this collection. From overview to comparative studies in diverse contexts, this work is both historical and contemporary, encompassing case studies of elite individuals as well as elites in nations and political environments.

• An Ethnography of Knowledge

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  • Author: Noris Mudege
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  • The book analyses how social processes impact on knowledge production and dissemination; investigates how differences between actors impact on knowledge dissemination and appropriation; explores how existing knowledge frameworks affect knowledge analysis and acceptance and how people bridge the gap between ‘outside’ and ‘local’ forms of knowledge.

• "The" Fifth Modality

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  • Author: C.W. Roberts
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  • This book introduces a theoretical perspective for distinguishing all mass societies’ persons, situations, and cultures in accordance with four modalities (e.g., ability for most U.S. citizens, necessity for most Scandinavians, obligation for most Japanese, and permission for most Arabs)

• The Governance of Daily Life in Africa

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  • Editors Giorgio Blundo; Pierre-Yves Le Meur
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  • This book offers an ethnographic exploration of how public and collective services are produced ‘on the ground’ in Africa. This anthropology of everyday governance as process is a strong contribution to current debates on public policy, governmentality and the state.

• Hybrid Identities

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  • Editors Keri E. Iyall Smith; Patricia Leavy
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  • Combining theoretical and empirical analysis, this book presents the emerging theoretical work analyzing hybrid identities while also illustrating the application of these theories in empirical research. Types of hybrid identities explored include: transnational, double consciousness, gender, diaspora, the third space, and the internal colony.

• Inside Poverty and Development in Africa

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  • Editors Marcel Rutten; André Leliveld; Dick Foeken
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  • Thinking about development in Africa requires an appreciation of at least two sets of ideas. It is not sufficient to stress the ubiquity of failure, malnutrition, disease, predatory states and war; one also has to recognize that important aspects of the lives of millions of ordinary people have been transformed over the last five decades. All contributions in this book give insight into the heterogeneity of poverty and development processes in Sub-Saharan Africa, and confront the ideas, concepts and assumptions that lie behind pro-poor policies with their empirical findings.

• International Migration and National Development in sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Editors Aderanti Adepoju; Ton Naerssen; Annelies Zoomers
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  • This book focuses on achieving a better understanding of the implications of international migration for national development from the perspective of the sending countries (with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa). More specifically, the purpose of this volume is to explore (1) current perceptions - as seen from the perspective of the countries of origin - of the links between international migration and national development, and (2) current trends in policy making aimed at minimising the negative effects, while optimising the development impact.

• Manichaean Delirium

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  • Author: A.A. Ibrahim
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  • The book uses the concept of the “Manichaean” geography of the colony, popularized by Fanon, to account for the virulent Islamic renewal in Sudan. In focusing on the Sudan judiciary, characterized by an unrelenting rift between its civil and Sharia divisions, the book examines the various forces that sought to profit from these Manichaean resources.

• Movers and Shakers

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  • Author: Stephen Ellis
  • Editors Stephen Ellis; Ineke Kessel
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  • This collection of empirical and theoretical studies of social movements in Africa is a corrective to a literature that has largely ignored that continent. It shows that Africa’s social movements have distinctive features that are related to its specific history.

• New Frontiers in Comparative Sociology

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  • Editor Masamichi Sasaki
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  • This book is a collection of notable papers from the first six volumes of the journal "Comparative Sociology." Its content represents leading-edge and contemporarily astute analyses in the burgeoning science of comparative sociology, especially relevant to a globalizing world in transition.

• One Zambia, Many Histories

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  • Editors Jan-Bart Gewald; Marja Hinfelaar
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  • In contrast to the rich tradition of academic analysis and understanding of the pre-colonial and colonial history of Zambia, the trajectory of post-colonial Zambia has been all but ignored by historians. The assumptions of developmentalism, the cultural hegemony of United National Independence Party orthodoxy and its conflation with national interests, and a narrow focus on Zambia’s diplomatic role in Southern African affairs, have all contributed to a dearth of studies centring on the diverse lived experiences of Zambians.

• Renewers of the Age

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  • Author: S.S. Reese
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  • Drawing on locally compiled Arabic language sources, this book offers a comprehensive examination of the role of Muslim scholars as popular intellectuals and reformers in southern Somalia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• Social Capital in Europe: Similarity of Countries and Diversity of People?

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  • Author: Heiner Meulemann
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  • Social capital may foster the integration of a society and the stability of a democracy.This volume examines the differences in levels, causes and consequences of social capital between 22 European countries surveyed in the 2002 European Social Survey. Muliti-level analyses are used in each contribution