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Difference Incorporated eBook Series

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  • Humanitarian Violence

    The U.S. Deployment of Diversity

    by Neda Atanasoski ...
    Series series Difference Incorporated
    When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular, she considers U.S. militarism—humanitarian militarism—during the ... Read more

    R382,25

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  • Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction

    by Klaus Dodds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. In certain places such as Iraq or Lebanon, moving a few feet either side of a territorial boundary can be a matter of life or death, dramatically highlighting the connections between place and politics. Even far away from these 'danger zones' - in Europe or the US ... Read more

    R113,26

  • Intellectual Morons

    How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas

    by Daniel J. Flynn ...
    Why do well-educated antiwar activists call the president of the United States “the new Hitler” and argue that the U.S. government orchestrated the September 11 attacks?Why does Al Gore believe that cars pose “a mortal threat to the security of every nation”?Why does the Princeton professor known as the father of the animal rights movement object to humans eating animals but not to humans having ... Read more

    R148,80

  • The Cultural Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Curt Kraus ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation of its origins, development, and conclusion. Drawing upon a vital trove of scholarship, memoirs, and popular culture, this Very Short ... Read more

    R125,34

  • The Endtimes of Human Rights

    by Stephen Hopgood ...
    "We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on ... Read more

    R245,40

  • Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

    Edited by Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Hallin and Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring how the concepts and methods of their analysis do and do not prove useful when applied beyond the original focus of ... Read more

    R642,95

  • Chechnya

    From Nationalism to Jihad

    by James Hughes ...
    Series series National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
    The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union. Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad provides a fascinating analysis of the transformation of secular nationalist resistance in a nominally Islamic society into a struggle that is its antithesis, jihad. Hughes locates Chechen nationalism within ... Read more

    R394,44

  • Why Not Kill Them All?

    The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (New in Paper)

    by Daniel Chirot, Clark McCauley ...
    Genocide, mass murder, massacres. The words themselves are chilling, evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the eradication of thousands and even millions of unarmed human beings caught in the crossfire of political, cultural, or ethnic hostilities? This question lies at the heart of Why Not Kill Them All? Cowritten ... Read more

    R516,57

  • Why Not Kill Them All?: The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder

    by Daniel Chirot Clark McCauley ...
    Genocide mass murder massacres. The words themselves are chilling evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the eradication of thousands and even millions of unarmed human beings caught in the crossfire of political cultural or ethnic hostilities? This question lies at the heart of Why Not Kill Them All? Cowritten ... Read more

    R532,67

  • China and Orientalism

    Western Knowledge Production and the PRC

    by Daniel Vukovich ...
    Series series Postcolonial Politics
    This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of ‘essential difference’ to one of ‘sameness’ or general equivalence. "China" is now in a halting but inevitable process of becoming-the-same as the USA and the West. Orientalism is now closer to the cultural logic of capitalism, even as it shows the afterlives of colonial ... Read more

    R1 543,97

  • The Politics of Nation-Building

    Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities

    by Harris Mylonas ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups - individuals perceived as an ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state - are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its ... Read more

    R533,24

  • Violence Taking Place

    The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict

    by Andrew Herscher ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and in particular, Kosovo, where targeting architecture has been a prominent dimension of political ... Read more

    R392,14