Search Results - "radicalization"

Into the hearts of the Amazons in search of a modern matriarchy / by DeMott, Tom

Table of Contents: “…The blue mortuary -- The politician -- Honoring San Vicente -- The apologist -- Lavada -- The Russian -- Quintessential isthmus women -- The kid -- Vela Zandunga -- The spy -- The other city hall -- The princess -- Purse strings -- The blaseña -- Tirada de frutas -- The radical -- Day of the dead -- The Italian -- Bloqueo -- The journalist -- Marketplace Tehuantepec -- The filmmaker -- Inventing Santa Inés -- The grad student -- Green mangos -- The investigator -- The general's daughter.…”
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The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848 / by Wiecek, William M.

Table of Contents: “…The ambiguous beginnings of antislavery constitutionalism : Somerset -- Antislavery during and after the American Revolution -- Slavery in the making of the Constitution -- Antislavery in the new nation -- Missouri statehood : the second crisis of the union -- The Southern counteroffensive -- Antislavery renascent -- Constitutional sparring -- Moderate constitutional antislavery : abolition manquee -- The Garrisonian critique -- Radical constitutional antislavery : the imagined past, the remembered future -- Epilogue : beyond free soil.…”
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Raging with compassion : pastoral responses to the problem of evil / by Swinton, John, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…: the practice of lament as resistance and deliverance -- Battling monsters and resurrecting persons : practicing forgiveness in the face of radical evil -- Practicing thoughtfulness : what are people for? …”
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We are the revolutionists German-speaking immigrants and American abolitionists after 1848 / by Honeck, Mischa, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…: a transnational abolitionist sisterhood -- Let us break every yoke : Boston's radical democracies -- A revolution half accomplished : building nations, forgetting emancipation.…”
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The making of minjung democracy and the politics of representation in South Korea / by Lee, Namhee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : minjung, history, and historical subjectivity -- The construction of minjung -- Anticommunism and North Korea -- Anti-Americanism and chuch'e sasang -- The undonggwŏn as a counterpublic sphere -- Between indeterminacy and radical critique : madanggŭk, ritual, and protest -- The alliance between labor and intellectuals -- "To be reborn as revolutionary workers" : Gramscian fusion and Leninist vanguardism -- The subject as the subjected : intellectuals and workers in labor literature -- Conclusion : the minjung movement as history.…”
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Life as politics how ordinary people change the Middle East / by Bayat, Asef

Table of Contents: “…The art of presence -- The quiet encroachment of the ordinary -- The poor and the perpetual pursuit of life chances -- Feminism of everyday life -- Reclaiming youthfulness -- The politics of fun -- Battlefield Tehran -- Streets of revolution -- Does radical Islam have an urban ecology? -- Everyday cosmopolitanism -- The "Arab street" -- Is there a future for Islamic revolutions? …”
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We are the revolutionists German-speaking immigrants and American abolitionists after 1848 / by Honeck, Mischa, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…: a transnational abolitionist sisterhood -- Let us break every yoke : Boston's radical democracies -- A revolution half accomplished : building nations, forgetting emancipation.…”
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The making of minjung democracy and the politics of representation in South Korea / by Lee, Namhee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : minjung, history, and historical subjectivity -- The construction of minjung -- Anticommunism and North Korea -- Anti-Americanism and chuch'e sasang -- The undonggwŏn as a counterpublic sphere -- Between indeterminacy and radical critique : madanggŭk, ritual, and protest -- The alliance between labor and intellectuals -- "To be reborn as revolutionary workers" : Gramscian fusion and Leninist vanguardism -- The subject as the subjected : intellectuals and workers in labor literature -- Conclusion : the minjung movement as history.…”
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Life as politics how ordinary people change the Middle East / by Bayat, Asef

Table of Contents: “…The art of presence -- The quiet encroachment of the ordinary -- The poor and the perpetual pursuit of life chances -- Feminism of everyday life -- Reclaiming youthfulness -- The politics of fun -- Battlefield Tehran -- Streets of revolution -- Does radical Islam have an urban ecology? -- Everyday cosmopolitanism -- The "Arab street" -- Is there a future for Islamic revolutions? …”
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Raging with compassion : pastoral responses to the problem of evil / by Swinton, John, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…: the practice of lament as resistance and deliverance -- Battling monsters and resurrecting persons : practicing forgiveness in the face of radical evil -- Practicing thoughtfulness : what are people for? …”
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The shattered lantern : rediscovering a felt presence of God / by Rolheiser, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…The problem of unbelief among believers : the agnosticism of our ordinary consciousness -- Narcissism, pragmatism, unbridled restlessness and the non-contemplative personality : factors militating against contemplation -- A radically changed situation : the non-contemplative personality -- The purification of awareness : the mystical tradition -- Contemplation as respecting the holiness of God : the Protestant contemplative tradition -- Recognizing and appropriating the experience of contingency : the philosophical tradition of theism -- Some contemporary spiritual exercises.…”

Semblance and event activist philosophy and the occurrent arts / by Massumi, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Activist philosophy and the occurrent arts -- The ether and your anger toward a speculative pragmatism -- The thinking-feeling of what happens putting the radical back in empiricism -- The diagram as technique of existence ovum of the universe segmented -- Arts of experience, politics of expression In four movements. …”
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The life of George Eliot a critical biography / by Henry, Nancy, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The history of a writer : George Eliot and biographies -- Early years (1819-1849) -- London and George Lewes (1850-54) -- Marian Lewes and George Eliot (1855-59) -- Silas Marner and Romola (1860-64) -- Felix Holt, the radical and The Spanish gypsy (1865-69) -- Middlemarch (1870-72) -- Daniel Deronda (1873-76) -- Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1877-78) -- The final years : 1879 to Cross's life.…”
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Eisenhower's Sputnik moment the race for space and world prestige / by Mieczkowski, Yanek

Table of Contents: “…-- Eisenhower's reaction to Sputnik -- Space and Eisenhower's principles -- Cheerleader-in-chief -- Gloom, gloom, gloom -- High in space, low on earth -- Eisenhower's rival -- Radical moves -- Order from chaos -- Defeat and a score -- Priorities versus prestige -- Satellites, Saturn, spacemen -- Voyages, images, mirages -- Space and prestige in the 1960 race -- Eisenhower versus Kennedy.…”
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Semblance and event activist philosophy and the occurrent arts / by Massumi, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Activist philosophy and the occurrent arts -- The ether and your anger toward a speculative pragmatism -- The thinking-feeling of what happens putting the radical back in empiricism -- The diagram as technique of existence ovum of the universe segmented -- Arts of experience, politics of expression In four movements. …”
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The life of George Eliot a critical biography / by Henry, Nancy, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The history of a writer : George Eliot and biographies -- Early years (1819-1849) -- London and George Lewes (1850-54) -- Marian Lewes and George Eliot (1855-59) -- Silas Marner and Romola (1860-64) -- Felix Holt, the radical and The Spanish gypsy (1865-69) -- Middlemarch (1870-72) -- Daniel Deronda (1873-76) -- Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1877-78) -- The final years : 1879 to Cross's life.…”
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Eisenhower's Sputnik moment the race for space and world prestige / by Mieczkowski, Yanek

Table of Contents: “…-- Eisenhower's reaction to Sputnik -- Space and Eisenhower's principles -- Cheerleader-in-chief -- Gloom, gloom, gloom -- High in space, low on earth -- Eisenhower's rival -- Radical moves -- Order from chaos -- Defeat and a score -- Priorities versus prestige -- Satellites, Saturn, spacemen -- Voyages, images, mirages -- Space and prestige in the 1960 race -- Eisenhower versus Kennedy.…”
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Critical Theory, Democracy, and the Challenge of Neoliberalism / by Caterino, Brian, Hansen, Phillip, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Macpherson, Habermas, and the demands of democratic theory -- Reason, truth, and power: the challenges of contepmorary critical theory -- Critical theroy and neoliberalism -- Towards a critical theory of democracy: deliberation, self-interest, and solidarity -- Towards a critical theory of democracy: the Frankfurt School and democratic theory -- Towards a critical theory of democracy: participatory democracy and social freedom -- Conclusion: critical theory and radical reform.…”
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The shattered lantern : rediscovering a felt presence of God / by Rolheiser, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…The problem of unbelief among believers : the agnosticism of our ordinary consciousness -- Narcissism, pragmatism, unbridled restlessness and the non-contemplative personality : factors militating against contemplation -- A radically changed situation : the non-contemplative personality -- The purification of awareness : the mystical tradition -- Contemplation as respecting the holiness of God : the Protestant contemplative tradition -- Recognizing and appropriating the experience of contingency : the philosophical tradition of theism -- Some contemporary spiritual exercises.…”

Critical Theory, Democracy, and the Challenge of Neoliberalism / by Caterino, Brian, Hansen, Phillip, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Macpherson, Habermas, and the demands of democratic theory -- Reason, truth, and power: the challenges of contepmorary critical theory -- Critical theroy and neoliberalism -- Towards a critical theory of democracy: deliberation, self-interest, and solidarity -- Towards a critical theory of democracy: the Frankfurt School and democratic theory -- Towards a critical theory of democracy: participatory democracy and social freedom -- Conclusion: critical theory and radical reform.…”
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