Exchange Ideologies
Title | Exchange Ideologies PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Anderson |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2023-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 150176828X |
Exchange Ideologies documents the social world of Aleppo's traders before the destruction of the city, exploring changing conceptions of commerce in Syria. Syria's traders have been seen as embodying a timeless culture of "the bazaar," or an ahistorical Islamic culture of trade. Other accounts portray them as venal figures, motivated only by profit, and commerce as a purely instrumental pursuit. Rejecting both approaches, Paul Anderson traces the diverse social structures, and notions of language, through which Aleppo's merchants understood and construed commerce and the figure of the merchant during a period of economic liberalization in the 2000s. Rather than seeing these social structures and representations as expressions of a timeless bazaar culture, or as shaped only by Islamic tradition, Exchange Ideologies relates them to processes of politically managed economic liberalization and the Syrian regime's attempts to ensure its own survival in the midst of change. In doing so, Anderson provides an account of economic liberalization in Syria as a social and cultural process as much as a political and economic one.
The Reactionary Mind
Title | The Reactionary Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Corey Robin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190692006 |
Now updated to include Trump's election and the rise of global populism, Corey Robin's 'The Reactionary Mind' traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution.
The Employee-Organization Relationship
Title | The Employee-Organization Relationship PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn M. Shore |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2012-03-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136493271 |
"Employee-organization relationship" is an overarching term that describes the relationship between the employee and the organization. It encompasses psychological contracts, perceived organizational support, and the employment relationship. Remarkable progress has been made in the last 30 years in the study of EOR. This volume, by a stellar list of international contributors, offers perspectives on EOR that will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and graduate students in IO psychology, business and human resource management.
American Political Ideologies
Title | American Political Ideologies PDF eBook |
Author | Brian R. Farmer |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2014-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0786480521 |
For many people, the world of politics is defined by ideologies. The average voter rarely takes time to research a policy issue, thoroughly relying instead on a set of beliefs set forth by his or her chosen political organization to make important decisions. These publicly promoted ideologies play an important role in international as well as domestic political development, yet many adherents to a particular belief may have a poor understanding of competing ideologies. From right wing to the far left, this text dissects eight prominent political ideologies: traditional conservatism, classic liberalism, libertarianism, conservative extremism, contemporary liberalism, communism, dependency theory and Islamism. In plain terms it describes the basic doctrine and inherent contradictions of each creed along with its particular relevance to today's political landscape. An in-depth discussion of the political socialization processes that form and perpetuate ideologies is also included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Hannah Arendt
Title | Hannah Arendt PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Dew |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2020-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3030458814 |
This book presents an incisive survey of twentieth-century transatlantic ideational exchange. The author argues that German-American political thinker Hannah Arendt is to be distinguished not only from the French side of the existentialist movement, but singled out from Heidegger on the German side, as well. The primary feature of Arendt’s existentialism is its practicality in political terms; its acknowledgment of the vital need for viable public spaces of vocalization, action and interaction; its recommendation of councils, constitutions and other structural foundations for the visible presentation of politics; and the applicability of her view of political action to her estimation of authentic human living. Drawing from the work of Karl Jaspers as her primary exemplar, conclusions are made as to the degree to which Arendt’s existentialism, thereby identified as atypical, is to be assessed as postmodern without going so far as to declare her intellectual bent postmodernist.
Ideologies of Globalization
Title | Ideologies of Globalization PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Rupert |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134658249 |
This book examines the key debates about globalization and provides a detailed and incisive analysis of the varied and often contradictory opposition to globalization within the United States. Subjects covered include: * the historical context of the development of globalization in the US in the post-war period * opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs (GATT) & the World Trade Organisation (WTO) * the nationalist response to globalization from 'militia' groups and others on the extreme right * the populist backlash against globalization * recent moves by advocates of the free market to present 'globalization with a human face'.
Politics: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Politics: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Minogue |
Publisher | Oxford Paperbacks |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2000-02-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0192853880 |
In this introduction, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He considers the evolution of different systems, ideological aspects and the future of political science.