Robert Schine’s intellectual biography of Max Wiener profiles a liberal German-Jewish thinker who turned toward Zionism as the only natural future for Judaism. Schine puts Wiener’s thought into ...conversation with those of his German contemporaries (both Jewish and Christian) while also resuscitating Wiener’s thought as a resource for contemporary theologians.
This updated version of Humanism and the Northern
Renaissance now includes over 60 documents exploring humanist
and Renaissance ideals, the zeal of religion, and the wealth of the
new world.
Fields of Revolution examines the second largest case of
peasant land redistribution in Latin America and agrarian
reform-arguably the most important policy to arise out of Bolivia's
1952 revolution. ...Competing understandings of agrarian reform shaped
ideas of property, productivity, welfare, and justice. Peasants
embraced the nationalist slogan of "land for those who work it" and
rehabilitated national union structures. Indigenous communities
proclaimed instead "land to its original owners" and sought to link
the ruling party discourse on nationalism with their own
long-standing demands for restitution. Landowners, for their part,
embraced the principle of "land for those who improve it" to
protect at least portions of their former properties from
expropriation. Carmen Soliz combines analysis of governmental
policies and national discourse with everyday local actors'
struggles and interactions with the state to draw out the deep
connections between land and people as a material reality and as
the object of political contention in the period surrounding the
revolution.
Using empirical case materials from the Philippines and referring to rich experiences from different countries historically, this book offers conceptual and practical conclusions that have ...far-reaching implications for land reform throughout the world. Examining land reform theory and practice, this book argues that conventional practices have excluded a significant portion of land-based production and distribution relationships, while they have inadvertently included land transfers that do not constitute real redistributive reform. By direct implication, this book is a critique of both mainstream market led agrarian reform and conventional state-led land reform. It offers an alternative perspective on how to move forward in theory and practice and opens new paths in land policy research.
The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him the first indigenous head of state in the Americas, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples.El Movimiento Sin ...Tierra(MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following in the tradition of the well-known Brazilian Landless movement, Bolivia's MST activists seized unproductive land and built farming collectives as a means of resistance to large-scale export-oriented agriculture. InMobilizing Bolivia's Displaced, Nicole Fabricant illustrates how landless peasants politicized indigeneity to shape grassroots land politics, reform the state, and secure human and cultural rights for Native peoples.Fabricant takes readers into the personal spaces of home and work, on long bus rides, and into meetings and newly built MST settlements to show how, in response to displacement, Indigenous identity is becoming ever more dynamic and adaptive. In addition to advancing this rich definition of indigeneity, she explores the ways in which Morales has found himself at odds with Indigenous activists and, in so doing, shows that Indigenous people have a far more complex relationship to Morales than is generally understood.
"Going to Court to Change Japan takes us inside movements dealing with causes as disparate as death by overwork, the rights of the deaf, access to prisoners on death row, consumer product safety, ...workers whose companies go bankrupt, and persons convicted of crimes they did not commit. Each of the six fascinating case studies stands on its own as a detailed account of how a social movement has persisted against heavy odds to pursue a cause through the use of the courts. The studies pay particular attention to the relationship between the social movement and the lawyers who handle their cases, usually pro bono or for minimal fees. Through these case studies we learn much about how the law operates in Japan as well as how social movements mobilize and innovate to pursue their goals using legal channels. The book also provides a general introduction to the Japanese legal system and a look at how recent legal reforms are working. Going to Court to Change Japan will interest social scientists, lawyers, and anyone interested in the inner workings of contemporary Japan. It is suitable for use in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses on Japan in social sciences and law, and can also provide a comparative perspective to general courses in these fields. Contributors include John H. Davis Jr., Daniel H. Foote, Patricia L. Maclachlan, Karen Nakamura, Scott North, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Christena Turner."
Fuentes fiscales e historia agraria. El debate en tomo de las posibilidades heurísticas de los amillaramientos. El objetivo del presente artículo consiste en una breve reflexión sobre las ...posibilidades que ofrece como fuente histórica la documentación generada por una de las figuras tributarias surgidas en 1845: la Contribución de Inmuebles, Cultivo y Ganadería. El tema ha sido objeto de cierto debate, por lo que una parte del trabajo se centra en el análisis de los argumentos a favor y en contra, mientras que en el resto del mismo se exponen las principales aportaciones conseguidas recientemente por un grupo de especialistas de Historia Agraria utilizando, con las debidas precauciones, la documentación indicada, esencialmente los Amillaramientos.
fr Sources fiscales et histoire agraire. Le debat sur les posibilites heuritiques des amillaramientos. L'objetif du présent article consiste á une brève reflexion sur les posibilites qui offre comme source historique la documentation générée par un procédé fiscal sorti de la Reforme de 1845: la Contribution d'Inmeubles, Culture et Elevage. La sujet a donné lieu á un certain débat; donc, une première partie de mon travail est consacré á une analyse des argumentations pro et contra, tandis que dans la deuxième on expose les principaux progrés de nos connaissances sur l'histoire agraires dans ces dernières années, réussis grâce aux recherches d'un groupe d'especialistes qu'ont utilisé de façon systématique, mais avec des precautions, les Amillaramientos.
Ethnographies of Power Chari, Sharad; Devine, Jennifer; Ekers, Michael ...
08/2021
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What does it mean to work with radical concepts in our time of rampant inequality, imperial-capitalist plunder, racial/sexual/class violence and ecocide? When concepts from the past seem inadequate, ...how do scholars and activists concerned with social change decide what concepts to work with or renew? The contributors to Ethnographies of Power address these questions head on. Gillian Hart is a key thinker in radical political economy, geography, development studies, agrarian studies and Gramscian critique of postcolonial capitalism. In Ethnographies of Power each contributor engages her work and applies it to their own field of study. These applied concepts include: ‘gendered labour’ practices among South African workers, reading ‘racial capitalism’ through agrarian debates, using ‘relational comparison’ in an ethnography of schooling across Durban, reworking ‘multiple socio-spatial trajectories’ in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve, critiquing the notion of South Africa’s ‘second economy’, revisiting ‘development’ processes and ‘Development’ discourses in US military contracting, reconsidering Gramsci’s ‘conjunctures’ geographically, finding divergent ‘articulations’ in Cape Town land occupations, and exploring ‘nationalism’ as central to revaluing recyclables at a Soweto landfill. Ethnographies of Power offers an invaluable toolkit for activists and scholars engaged in sharpening their critical concepts for the social and environmental change necessary for our collective future.
After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in ...the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform.
Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanities, Smith advocates for a 21st century doctoral education responsive to the changing ecology of humanistic scholarship and teaching. She elaborates a more expansive conceptualization of coursework and dissertation, a more robust, engaged public humanities, and a more diverse, collaborative, and networked sociality.
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