Search Results - radicalization

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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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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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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How capitalism was built the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia / by Åslund, Anders, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Exaggeration of the slump. Radical reform : least decline and early recovery. …”
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Control a history of behavioral psychology / by Mills, John A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: shaping a profession: behaviorism in American psychology -- The birth of psychological behaviorism -- From apogee to perigee: radical behaviorism appears but fails to take root -- The conceptual basis of neobehaviorism and behavioral science -- The behaviorist as research manager: clark L. hull and the Writing of principles of behavior -- The behaviorist as philosopher: B. …”
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Constituting the political economy of the Kurds : social embeddedness, hegemony, and identity / by Tekdemir, Omer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Emerging power in the changing Middle East -- Methodology within the Kurdish narrative -- The political economy origins of Kurds in the Ottoman Empire -- Kurdish moral economy : historical perspectives on embeddedness -- Counter-hegemonic society in the Republic of Turkey -- Passive revolution : constructing institutional politics -- National identity : many Kurds in agonistic pluralism -- Articulating an alternative discourse in the EU-ised sphere -- A Kurdish model : embeddedness, radical democracy and populism.…”
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How to coach individuals, teams, and organizations to master transformational change surfing tsunamis / by Hacker, Stephen, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…1. The impact of radical change on you, your organization, and your world -- 2. …”
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Derrida after the End of Writing : Political Theology and New Materialism / by Crockett, Clayton, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Derrida and the new materialism -- Reading Derrida reading religion -- Surviving Christianity -- Political theology without sovereignty -- Interrupting Heidegger with a ram: Derrida's reading of Celan -- Derrida, Lacan, and object-oriented ontology: philosophy of religion at the end of the world -- Radical theology and the event: Caputo's Derridean gospel -- Deconstructive plasticity: Malabou's biological materialism -- Quantum Derrida: Barad's hauntological materialism -- The sins of the fathers, a love letter.…”
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Globalizing family values the Christian right in international politics / by Buss, Doris

Table of Contents: “…Divinity, data, destruction : theological foundations to Christian right international activism -- Constructing the global : the United Nations in Protestant thought and prophecy -- Nation, family, church : the Christian right global mission -- The death culture goes global : international population policy and Christian right politics in action -- In defense of the natural family : doctrine, disputes, and devotion at the World Congress of Families II Conference -- The gender agenda : women's rights, radical feminism, and homosexuality.…”
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Russia under the last tsar

Table of Contents: “…--Russian conservative thought before the revolution / R.F. Byrnes -- Russian radical thought, 1894-1917 / D.W. Treadgold -- Constitutional developments in Russia / T. …”
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Faithful vision treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…African American faithful belief : imposing social determinism, naturalism, and modernism -- The centrality of religious faith : communal acceptance, textual ambiguity, and paradox -- Critiquing Christian belief : the text as prophecy of different ways of seeing salvation -- Rejecting God and redefining faith : portrayals of Black women's spirituality -- Reshaping and radicalizing faith : the diasporic vision and practice of hoodoo -- Conclusion : fiction, life, and faithful vision : final thoughts on its overall portrayal and relevance.…”
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Catholic social teaching and economic globalization the quest for alternatives / by Sniegocki, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview of the contemporary global context : life stories -- Data on poverty, hunger, and inequality in an age of globalization -- The goals and structure of this book -- Development theory and practice : an overview -- Origins of the concept of development -- Modernization theory -- Modernization theory and U.S. aid policy -- The impact of modernizationist development -- Structuralist economic theories -- Dependency theories -- Basic needs approach -- New international economic order -- Alternative development -- The impact of reformist thought on development policy -- Neoliberal resurgence and structural adjustment policies -- Current debates in development studies -- The failures of modernizationist development : a closer look -- The impacts of colonialism and slavery -- Post-WW II development policies and the third world debt crisis -- Consequences of the debt crisis -- Responses to the debt crisis -- United States opposition to social change in the third world -- Summary of major structural influences on the third world -- Catholic social teaching and development -- CST prior to Pope John XXIII -- Early reflections on development : John XXIII and Vatican II -- The pivotal contributions of Paul VI, the Latin American bishops, and justice in the world -- John Paul II : the centrality of solidarity -- The social ethics of Benedict XVI -- Summary of catholic social teaching on development issues -- Catholic social teaching and political economy : neoconservative and radical critiques -- Neoconservative reflections on CST -- Radical reflections on CST -- Evaluation of neoconservative, radical, and CST views -- Grassroots critics of development -- Rejecting the quest for development - Vandana shiva : the violence of development and reductionist science -- Further issues in the development/globalization debates -- Reclaiming the commons : the positive visions of development critics -- Catholic social teaching, the radical tradition, and development critics -- Grassroots action and policy alternatives -- Grassroots organizations in the third world : an overview -- The impact of grassroots organizations -- Development policies : follow the NIC model? …”
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Defining the peace World War II veterans, race, and the remaking of Southern political tradition / by Brooks, Jennifer E.

Table of Contents: “…union veterans and the politics of labor -- We are not radicals, neither are we reactionaries : good government, veterans and the politics of modernization -- Hitler is not dead but has found refuge in Georgia : the General Assembly of 1947 and the limits of progress.…”
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Fictions of justice the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa / by Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing fictions : moral economies in the tribunalization of violence -- Crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator : new spaces of power, new specters of justice -- Multiple spaces of justice : Uganda, the International Criminal Court and the politics of inequality -- "Religious" and "secular" micropractices : the roots of secular law, the political content of radical Islamic beliefs -- "The hand will go to hell" : Islamic law and the crafting of the spiritual self -- Islamic sharia at the crossroads : human rights challenges and the strategic translation of vernacular imaginaries.…”
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Making marriage work a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States / by Celello, Kristin

Table of Contents: “…Keeping women on the marital job in war and peace -- They learned to love again : marriage saving in the 1950s -- Radical feminists, liberated housewives, and total women : searching for the future of marriage, 1963-1980 -- Super marital sex and the second shift : new work for wives in the 1980s and 1990s -- Epilogue: still working.…”
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Archie Mafeje scholar, activist and thinker / by Nabudere, D. Wadada

Table of Contents: “…-- Mafeje's ideological and philosophical orientations -- The critique of anthropology and alterity -- The study of rural African society -- Culture as the 'missing link' in African development -- The issue of 'social formations' of African society -- Mafeje's attempts to endogenise and deconstruct knowledge production -- The African post-colonial states and the African political elite -- Mafeje and African philosophy -- The Interlacustrine Kingdoms as 'social formations' -- Mafeje - the South African radical -- Cosmology, epistemology and academic disciplines -- Conclusion.…”
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The political education of Democratus negotiating civic virtue during the early republic / by Dotts, Brian W.

Table of Contents: “…Trans-Atlantic Ties : Radical Whig Political Ideals and American Practice -- Chapter 5. …”
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