The life of this world focuses on the ways in which Muslims in predominantly non-Muslim Thailand have to constantly "negotiate" and "renegotiate" their lives as a minority group. Challenges to their faith and their identity as Muslims abound in Thai society, and through various means of negotiation, Muslims strive to maintain their links to society at the local, national, and global levels.
As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Palestine, the only solution that he feels will bring lasting peace.
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Islam versus Islamism 3. The rise of Islamism in Europe 4. The rise of Islamism in the United States 5. September 11 awakens the west, but Islamists advance 6. Conclusion and policy prescriptions.
Computing Myths, Class Realities is about the extensive change-on the job, where people live, in social relations-taking place in contemporary societies. The book examines whether this social change is caused by the introduction of computer-based new technology or "computerization." To answer this question, computerization is examined culturally, through the holistic approach of anthropology.
This book is mostly about the economics of inequality. In various essays in this volume, Stiglitz describing the nexus between politics and economics: the vicious circle by which more economic inequality gets translated into political inequality, especially in America's political system, which gives such unbridled power to money.
For anyone interested in understanding the rich networks that operate across Asia—from India to Indochina and the ASEAN states that the greater China trio of the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and finally the North Asian powerhouse of Japan and Korea.
In The Global Class War, Jeff Faux argues that the politics of the new world market is dominated by a virtual “Party of Davos,” the globe-trotting network of corporate investor and CEOs and the politicians and journalists who work on their behalf. Clinton and his treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, and Bush and his defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, may use different strategies, but they pro…
To be a woman in America at the close of the 20th century what good fortune. That's what we keep hearing, anyway. The barricades have fallen, politicians assure us. Women have "made it." Madison Avenue cheers. Women's fight for equality has "largely been won," Time magazine announces. Enroll at any university, join any law firm, apply for credit at any bank. Women have so many opportunities now…
This book is more than a thorough case study; it is a critical analy- sis for anyone interested in women, poverty, and economic development. Together with BRAC field staff, Chen helped organize over six thousand women into over two hundred and fifty cooperative groups. Through these groups, the women have begun to generate higher incomes and exercise more power and autonomy. The learning and ex…
Buku ini membahas empat inti masalah politik: penciptaan identitas bersama, pengorganisasian alat kekuasaan yang efektif, pembentukan otoritas yang sah, serta produksi dan distribusi ekonomi. Keempat masalah tersebut menghasilkan enam konsep kunci di dalam ilmu politik, kemudian dirinci menjadi dimensi-dimensi konsep.