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Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics…
Confrontations between the powerless and the powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, labourers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power.…
Confrontations between the powerless and the powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, labourers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power.…
Scholars of politics have sought in recent years to make the discipline more hospitable to qualitative methods of research. Lauding the results of this effort and highlighting its potential for the future, Political Ethnography makes a compelling case for one such method in par…
Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military, and political - The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout history. In this first volume, Michael Mann examinese interrelations between these elements from neolithi…
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection (ICEEP 2014), April 26-28, 2014, Xi'an, China. The 312 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Materials and Processing Technology,Chapter 2: Engineering …
Back to basics: state power in a contemporary world
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Es gibt keine Gesellschaft ohne Gaben. Nicht Marktprinzipien organisieren soziale Beziehungen, sondern Geben, Nehmen und Erwidern als dreifache Verpflichtung. Im Anschluss an Marcel Mauss legt Alain Caillé einen umfassenden Neuentwurf der Sozialtheorie der Gabe vor. Dazu synthet…
Es gibt keine Gesellschaft ohne Gaben. Was soziale Beziehungen organisiertt, sind nicht Marktprinzipien, sondern ist die dreifache Verpflichtung des Gebens, Nehmens und Erwiderns. Im Anschluss an Marcel Mauss legt Alain Caill einen umfassenden Neuentwurf der Sozialtheorie der Ga…