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The Road - Dimitris Dalakoglou - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Road - Dimitris Dalakoglou - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. But more than an ethnography on the road, it is an anthropology of the road.Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban architecture and vehicles. Complex socio-political phenomena such as EU border security, nationalist politics, post-Cold War capitalism and financial crises all leave their mark in the concrete. This book explores anew classical anthropological and sociological categories of analysis in direct reference to infrastructure, providing unique insights into the political and cultural processes that took place across Europe after the Cold War. More specifically, it sheds light on political and economic relationships in the Balkans during the socialist post-Cold War period, focusing especially on Albania, one of the most under-researched countries in the region.Categories such as the house, domestic life, the city, kinship, money, boundaries, nationalism, statecraft, geographic mobility and distance - to name but a few - seem very different when seen from or on the road.

DKK 745.00
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Marks She Made - Mrinalini Rajagopalan - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Marks She Made - Mrinalini Rajagopalan - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Begum Samru (b. circa 1750-d. 1836) was a north Indian woman ruler who used art and architecture to facilitate her social, political, and financial station in early modern India. Rising from the ranks of courtesans in Mughal Delhi to become the commander of her own mercenary army, she later became the ruler of an independent territory of Sardhana (60 km northwest of Delhi). The begum (Urdu/ Hindustani title for noblewoman) was a trusted ally to the Mughal emperor and the English East India Company, two of the dominant political powers in north India at the time. As a sovereign ruler, she corresponded with two popes and King Louis Philippe of France, exchanging portraits, architectural drawings, and letters with these powerful men in addition to her Mughal counterparts in India. Art and architecture played a key role in establishing Begum Samru as a powerful but non-threatening ruler; as an upholder and patron of the Catholic faith in India; as a political ally to several European and Indian factions that were vying for power; and as ruling matriarch of a cosmopolitan household, court, and army. In narrating the story of a single woman in nineteenth-century India, this book offers a path to think of the creative ways in which women participated in public and political spheres. It also illustrates how women without pedigree, women who did not bear biological children or produce male heirs, and women who lived in contravention of gendered norms found alternative methods of recognition, dignity, power, and sometimes, as in the case of Begum Samru, global visibility. -- .

DKK 393.00
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Europe's Path to Crisis - Tom Gallagher - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Europe's Path to Crisis - Tom Gallagher - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

A deeply flawed currency union has plunged Europe into its biggest crisis since the Second World War. The Euro was the brainchild of political leaders impatient to speed up the journey towards a united Europe. Countries with contrasting economic conditions and needs ceded key financial decisions to European institutions. Since 2008 defective crisis management has ignited divisions between north and south, creditor and debtor countries, and between countries inside and outside the Eurozone. This book offers a rare multi-dimensional appraisal of the crisis. It examines high-level decisions, the core national and economic interests shaping them, and the impact on millions of citizens. It shows that many of the current difficulties of the EU are rooted in much longer-term decision-making. Over sixty years, the architects of the EU impeded a genuine European partnership, one firmly grounded in democratic values and a desire to co-exist with a national outlook.Re-designing the architecture of a transnational Europe has preoccupied EU elites as the crisis has raged.There is no appetite for reviewing the failures, biases, and broad choices taken by the EU. The author defends an orderly retreat from the existing model of monetary union. It needs to be revamped in order to enable countries enduring a prolonged slump to recover . EU chiefs should also shelve their campaign to undo the nation-state and treat it instead as a partner in a common emergency that needs to be overcome. This jargon-free, insightful and long-term analysis of a dangerous crisis is an invaluable book for academics and students alike. It is also an effective tool for policy-makers, citizens and business people who require an accessible and in-depth appraisal of a continuing catastrophe.

DKK 759.00
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The End of Populism - Marcel H. Van Herpen - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The End of Populism - Marcel H. Van Herpen - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book proposes concrete solutions to confront the populist wave and the rise of "illiberal democracy." The author demonstrates that democracy is not a "demand side" phenomenon, but rather a "supply side" phenomenon and formulates twenty original and bold proposals to fight populism and defend liberal democracy. An original and essential book which will undoubtedly stimulate vigorous debate.

DKK 759.00
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