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The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure

, 2013
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked.
B. Larkin
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The Politics of the Police

, 2019
In its fifth edition, The Politics of the Police has been revised, updated, and extended to take account of recent changes in the law, policy, organization, and social contexts of policing.
R. Reiner
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The social life of things: Introduction: commodities and the politics of value

, 1986
This essay has two aims. The first is to preview and set the context for the essays that follow it in this volume. The second is to propose a new perspective on the circulation of commodities in social life. The gist of this perspective can be put in the
A. Appadurai
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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide

, 2004
Part I. Understanding Secularization: 1. The secularization debate 2. Measuring secularization 3. Comparing secularization worldwide Part II. Case Studies of Religion and Politics: 4. The puzzle of secularization in the United States and Western Europe 5.
P. Norris, R. Inglehart
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Politics Out of History

, 2018
Acknowledgment ix 1. INTRODUCTION: Politics Out of History 3 2. SYMPTOMS: Moralism as Anti-Politics 18 3. DESIRE: The Desire to Be Punished: Freud's "'A Child Is Being Beaten'" 45 4. POWER: Power without Logic without Marx 62 5.
W. Brown
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Decolonising the mind : the politics of language in African literature

, 1987
Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature.
Jidlaph G. Kamoche, Ngũugĩ wa Thiong'o
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Agendas and instability in American politics

, 1993
When "Agendas and Instability in American Politics" appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the "Journal of Politics" predicted that it would 'become a landmark study ...
F. Baumgartner, B. Jones
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Political Development, Political Systems, and Political Goods

World Politics, 1966
Political theorists from Plato to the present have concerned themselves not only with the nature of the polity as we know it, but with how it came to be, what purposes it serves, and by what stages it has developed. The last item, however, has more often than not been slighted.
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Politics, Political Philosophy and the Politics of Philosophy

1979
Philosophy has its own politics. That is to say, the ‘society’ (or the ‘profession’) of philosophy and of philosophers has its roles and rules, its means and ends, its conflicts and mediations, its forms of governance, its modes of dominance and subordination, its varying ‘constitutions’ which determine legality, legitimacy and due process.
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Political Dispositions and Dispositional Politics

2006
Beyond Conventional Economics presents new original work from leading scholars on the interface between the individual and political and social institutions. The book offers a critique of the inadequacies of the conventional economic approach to politics and a state-of-the-art view of new paradigms challenging the dominant economic notion of the ...
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