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2 U.S. POLITICS
The Immigrant Rights A New American Creed Politics of Empowerment
Movement The Eclipse of Citizenship and Disability Rights and the Cycle of
The Battle over National Rise of Populism American Policy Reform
Citizenship David H. Kamens David Pettinicchio
Walter J. Nicholls A new American creed has In Politics of Empowerment, David
In the months leading up to reconstructed the social contract. Pettinicchio offers a historically
the 2016 presidential election, Generations from 1890 to 1940 grounded analysis of the singular
liberal outcry over Donald Trump’s took for granted that citizenship case of U.S. disability policy, coun-
ethnonationalist views espoused entailed voting, volunteering, tering long-held views of progress
a notion deeply embedded in religiosity, and civic conscious- that privilege public demand as its
American social life: we are a ness. Conspicuously, the WWII primary driver. Beginning in the
nation of immigrants. Given the generation introduced collectivist 1970s, a group of legislators and
pervasiveness of this rhetoric, it notions of civic obligations—but bureaucrats came to act as “political
is easy to overlook its genesis in such obligations have since become entrepreneurs,” and were seen as
the not-too-distant past. Indeed, regarded as options. In this book, experts leading the movement
before 2010, there was no national David H. Kamens takes this basic within the government. But as
immigrant rights movement shift as his starting point for explor- they increasingly faced obstacles,
equating immigrants to de facto ing numerous trends in American nascent disability advocacy and
Americans. This book tells the political culture from the 1930s to protest groups took the cause to
story of the movement’s grassroots the present day. Beyond painting the American people, forming the
origins, through its meteoric rise a comprehensive picture of our basis of the contemporary disability
to the national stage—and reveals current political landscape, Kamens rights movement.
tradeoffs made along the way. offers an invaluable archive docu- “This excellent addition to
menting the steps that got us here. the policy feedbacks litera-
“Theoretically rich and empirically
rigorous, the book will set the terms “This theoretically innovative and ture shows how federal policy
for the debate about the best way well-argued book is a must-read for helped disabled activists become
forward for many years to come.” anyone interested in the present and fully mobilized citizens.”
—Kim Voss,
future of American democracy.” —Andrea Louise Campbell,
University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute
—Patricia Bromley, of Technology
Stanford University
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U.S. POLITICS 3
After the Rise and Stall of Tyranny Comes Home Whose Life Is Worth More?
American Feminism The Domestic Fate of U.S. Hierarchies of Risk and Death in
Taking Back a Revolution Militarism Contemporary Wars
Lynn S. Chancer Christopher J. Coyne and Yagil Levy
After the Rise and Stall of American Abigail R. Hall Modern democracies face tough
Feminism takes the long view of Many Americans believe that life-and-death choices in armed
the successes and shortcomings foreign military intervention is conflicts. Chief among them is how
of feminism(s). Lynn Chancer central to protecting our domestic to weigh the value of soldiers’ lives
articulates four common causes— freedoms. But Christopher J. Coyne against those of civilians on both
advancing political and economic and Abigail R. Hall urge engaged sides. The first of its kind, Whose
equality, allowing intimate and citizens to think again. Under certain Life Is Worth More? reveals that how
sexual freedom, ending violence conditions, policies, tactics, and these decisions are made is much
against women, and expanding technologies that are used overseas more nuanced than conventional
the cultural representation of in the name of national defense are wisdom suggests. When these states
women—considering each in turn re-imported to America, changing are entangled in prolonged conflicts,
to assess what has been gained the national landscape and increas- hierarchies emerge and evolve to
(or not). It is around these shared ing the extent to which we live in a weigh the value of human life.
concerns, Chancer argues, that police state. Cultural narratives about the nature
we can continue to build a vibrant and necessity of war, public rhetoric
Coyne and Hall examine this pat-
and expansive feminist movement. about external threats facing the
tern—which they dub “the boomer-
Ultimately, this book is about not nation, antiwar movements, and
ang effect”—considering a variety
only redressing problems, but also democratic values all contribute to
of rich cases that include the rise of
reasserting a future for feminism the perceived validity of civilian and
state surveillance, the militarization
and its enduring ability to change soldier deaths. By looking beyond
of domestic law enforcement, the
the world. the military to the cultural and
expanding use of drones, and torture
“Interrogating feminism’s own in U.S. prisons. Synthesizing research political factors that shape policies,
thorny contradictions and and applying an economic lens, they this book provides tools to under-
challenges, Lynn Chancer offers stand how democracies really decide
develop a generalizable theory to
women a bold and inspiring plan whose life is worth more.
for claiming equality with men— predict and explain a startling trend.
once and for all.” Tyranny Comes Home unveils a new “A tour de force. Theoretically innova-
—Lisa Wade,
aspect of the symbiotic relationship tive and empirically rich.”
Occidental College between foreign interventions and —Thomas W. Smith,
domestic politics. University of South Florida,
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Political Economy 11
Globalization Under and Movement-Driven
After Socialism Development
The Evolution of Transnational The Politics of Health and
Capital in Central and Democracy in Brazil
Eastern Europe When Words Trump Politics
Christopher L. Gibson Resisting a Hostile Regime of
Besnik Pula In the late twentieth and early twenty- Language
The post-communist states of Central first centuries, Brazil improved the Adam Hodges
and Eastern Europe have gone from health and well-being of its populace
being among the world’s most closed, more than any other large democracy Trumpism has not only ushered in a
autarkic economies to some of the in the world, declaring a striking new political regime, but also a new
most export-oriented and globally seventy percent reduction in infant regime of language—one that cries out
integrated. Besnik Pula reaches mortality rates. for intelligent and informed analysis.
deep into the region’s history and When Words Trump Politics takes
In Movement-Driven Development, insights from linguistic anthropology
comparatively examines its long-run
Christopher L. Gibson combines and related fields to provide tools to
industrial development to explain
rigorous statistical methodology resist the politics of division and hate.
this shift. In the 1970s, Central and
with rich case studies to argue that
Eastern European socialist leaders Adam Hodges’s short essays address
this transformation is the result of a
intensified engagements with the Trump’s Twitter insults, racism and
subnationally-rooted process driven
capitalist West, which challenged white nationalism, “truthiness” and
by civil society actors, namely the
the Stalinist developmental model “alternative facts,” #FakeNews and
Sanitarist Movement. He argues that
in favor of exports and transnational conspiracy theories, and many other
their ability to leverage state-level
integration. A new reliance on ex- timely and controversial discussions.
political positions to launch a gradual
ports launched the integration of Hodges breaks down the specific
but persistent attack on health policy
Eastern European industry into value linguistic techniques and processes
implementation enabled them to in-
chains that cut across the East-West that make Trump’s rhetoric successful.
fuse their social welfare ideology into
political divide. This book enriches He identifies the language ideologies,
the practice of Brazil’s democracy.
our understanding of a regional shift, word choices, and recurring meta-
while also explaining the distinct “An impeccable, multifaceted study phors that underlie Trumpian rhetoric.
international roles that Central of a uniquely successful movement of
public health professionals in Brazil, When Words Trump Politics is an
and Eastern European states have essential resource for political resis-
[this] is a foundational contribution to
assumed in the globalized twenty- the evolution of social movement and tance, for anyone who cares about
first century. development theory.” freeing democracy from the spell
Emerging Frontiers in the —Peter Evans, of demagoguery.
Global Economy Brown University
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STANFORD BRIEFS 13
Paradoxes of the Popular Remote Freedoms In the Name of the Nation
Crowd Politics in Bangladesh Politics, Personhood and India and Its Northeast
Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury Human Rights in Aboriginal Sanjib Baruah
Central Australia
Few places are as politically pre- In India, the eight states that border
carious as Bangladesh, even fewer as Sarah E. Holcombe Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and
crowded. It is also one of the poorest Remote Freedoms investigates how the Tibetan areas of China are often
among such densely populated universal human rights are under- referred to as just “the Northeast.”
nations. In spite of an overriding stood, practiced, negotiated, and In the Name of the Nation offers a
anxiety of exhaustion, there are a few challenged in concert and in conflict critical and historical account of the
important caveats to the familiar feel- with Indigenous rights. Moving country’s troubled relations with
ings of despair—a growing economy, between communities, government, this borderland region. Partly as
and an uneven, yet robust, nationalist regional NGOs, and international a result of its “frontier” dynamics,
sentiment—which, together, generate UN forums, Sarah E. Holcombe the political trajectory of the region
revealing paradoxes. In this book, addresses how the notion of rights has been different from the rest of
Nusrat Chowdhury offers insights plays out in the sociopolitical con- the country. The region has some of
into the so-called Bangladesh text of Australia, focusing specifi- India’s highest voter turnout rates,
Paradox in order to analyze the cally on Indigenous Anangu women but special security laws produce
constitutive contradictions of and their experiences of violence. significant democracy deficits
popular politics. Chowdhury writes Engaging in a translation of the that are now almost as old as the
provocatively about everyday Universal Declaration of Human Republic. That these policies have
democracy in Bangladesh in a rich Rights into the local Pintupi-Luritja been enforced to foment national
ethnography that studies some of the vernacular and observing various unity while multiple alternative
most consequential protests of the Indigenous interactions with law conceptions of the “nation” animate
last decade, making an original case enforcement and domestic violence politics in the region forces us to
for the crowd as a defining feature of outreach programs, Holcombe reflect on the very foundations of
democratic practices in South Asia reveals how, in the post-colonial the nation form. Sanjib Baruah
and beyond. Australian context, human rights are offers a nuanced account of this
“Chowdhury puts the paradoxical double-edged. They enforce assimi- impossibly complicated story,
power of the street at the center of lation to a neoliberal social order at asking how democracy can be
Bangladeshi history. A bold, the same time that they empower sustained, and deepened, in
compelling analysis.” and enfranchise the Indigenous these conditions.
—Jean Comaroff, citizen as a political actor. South Asia in Motion
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Political History 15
The Implicated Subject The Deepest Border Full Spectrum Dominance
Beyond Victims and Perpetrators The Strait of Gibraltar and the Irregular Warfare and the
Michael Rothberg Making of the Modern Hispano- War on Terror
African Borderland Maria Ryan
When it comes to historical violence
and contemporary inequality, none Sasha D. Pack America’s war on terror is widely
of us are completely innocent. The Deepest Border tells the story of defined by the Afghanistan and
Arguing that the familiar categories how a borderland society formed Iraq fronts. Yet, as this book dem-
of victim, perpetrator, and bystander around the Strait of Gibraltar, onstrates, both the international
do not adequately account for our bringing historical perspective to campaign and the new ways of
connection to injustices, Michael one of the contemporary world’s fighting that grew out of it played
Rothberg offers a new theory of critical border zones. Sasha D. out across multiple fronts beyond
political responsibility through the Pack reconsiders the region’s major the Middle East. Maria Ryan
figure of the implicated subject. The tensions and conflicts, including shows how secondary fronts in the
Implicated Subject builds on Roth- the Rif Rebellion, the Spanish Philippines, sub-Saharan Africa,
berg’s previous influential work on Civil War, the European phase of and Georgia and the Caspian Sea
memory to engage in reflection and World War II, the colonization and basin became key test sites for
analysis of cultural texts, archives, decolonization of Morocco, and developing what the Department
and activist movements from such the ongoing controversies over the of Defense called “full spectrum
contested zones as transitional exclaves of Gibraltar, Ceuta, and dominance”: mastery across the
South Africa, contemporary Israel/ Melilla. Integrating these threads entire range of possible conflict,
Palestine, post-Holocaust Europe, into a long history of the region, from conventional through irregu-
and a transatlantic realm marked The Deepest Border speaks to broad lar warfare.
by the afterlives of slavery. As these questions about how sovereignty
Full Spectrum Dominance explores
diverse sites of inquiry indicate, the operates on the “periphery,” the
whether irregular warfare has
processes and histories illuminated maintenance and construction of
been effective in creating global
by implicated subjectivity are legion borders, and the enduring legacies
stability or if new terrorist groups
in our interconnected world. An of imperialism and colonialism.
have emerged in response to
array of globally prominent artists,
“Sasha D. Pack’s highly original the intervention. As the U.S. has
writers, and thinkers speak to this study of this critical Mediterranean increasingly turned to irregular
interconnection and show how chokepoint represents a masterpiece capabilities and objectives, under-
confronting our own implication in the field of border studies.”
standing the underlying causes as
in difficult histories can lead to new —Julia Clancy-Smith, well as the effects of the quest for
forms of internationalism and long- University of Arizona
full spectrum dominance becomes
distance solidarity. 368 pages, January 2019
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Cultural Memory in the Present
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16 Political History
Risen from Ruins The Political Theory Neoliberalism’s Demons
The Cultural Politics of of Neoliberalism On the Political Theology of
Rebuilding East Berlin Late Capital
Thomas Biebricher
Paul Stangl Adam Kotsko
Neoliberalism has become a dirty
This book combines political word. Yet the term remains neces- Neoliberalism is usually considered
analysis with spatial and architec- sary for understanding the varieties an economic policy agenda, but
tural history to examine the urban of capitalism across space and Neoliberalism’s Demons argues
landscape of East Berlin from time. Arguing that neoliberalism that it is much more than that. A
the end of World War II until the is widely misunderstood when complete worldview, neoliberalism
construction of the Berlin Wall. reduced to a doctrine of markets presents the competitive market-
Following the destruction of the and economics alone, this book place as the model for true human
war, decision makers balanced shows that it has a political dimen- flourishing, transforming every
historic preservation against the sion that we can reconstruct and aspect of our shared social life.
opportunity to model the Socialist critique. By examining the views The book explores the sources of
future and reject the example of the of state, democracy, science, and neoliberalism’s remarkable success
Nazi dictatorship through architec- politics in the work of six major and the roots of its current decline.
ture and urban design. The political figures—Eucken, Röpke, Rüstow, Neoliberalism’s appeal is its promise
and ideological agenda of East Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan— of unfettered free choice, but that
German elites and the ruling The Political Theory of Neoliberalism freedom is a trap. If we choose
Socialist Unity Party (SED) had offers the first comprehensive rightly, we ratify our own exploita-
a profound effect on the built account of the varieties of neolib- tion. If we choose wrongly, we are
environment. Paul Stangl’s analysis eral political thought. The book demonized as the cause of social
expands our understanding of urban also interprets recent neoliberal ills. By tracing the political and
planning, historic preservation, and reforms of the European Union to theological roots of the neoliberal
Socialist Realism in East Berlin. diagnose contemporary capitalism concept of freedom, Adam Kotsko
“A comprehensive analysis of the more generally. The latest economic offers a fresh perspective, one that
politics of urban space in East Berlin. crises hardly brought the neoliberal emphasizes the dynamics of race,
A book of great breadth and depth, era to an end. Instead, as Thomas gender, and sexuality. He accounts
it deserves a wide readership among Biebricher shows, we are witness-
scholars of memory, urban space, for the rise of right-wing populism,
ing an authoritarian liberalism arguing that, far from breaking with
and Soviet Communism.” whose reign has only just begun. the neoliberal model, it actually
—Michael Meng,
Clemson University Currencies: New Thinking for doubles down on neoliberalism’s
Financial Times
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Political THEOry 17
The Sexual Contract Rebranding China The Reputational Imperative
30th Anniversary Edition, Contested Status Signaling in Nehru’s India in Territorial
With a New Preface by the Author the Changing Global Order Conflict
Carole Pateman Xiaoyu Pu Mahesh Shankar
Thirty years after its initial publica- China is intensely conscious of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal
tion, The Sexual Contract remains its status, at home and abroad. Nehru, left behind a legacy of both
a groundbreaking work that Contradictory posturing as a fragile great achievements and surprising
challenges the standard view of developing country and a nascent defeats. Most notably, he failed to
the implications of the idea, deeply global power makes decoding resolve the Kashmir dispute with
embedded in Western thought, China’s foreign policy a challenge, Pakistan and the territorial conflict
that we should think of the state as generating uncertainty in many parts with China. Mahesh Shankar offers a
if it were derived from an original of the world. Using the metaphor of compelling and novel understanding
contract. This award-winning rebranding to understand China’s of these puzzling foreign policy mis-
book, by leading feminist political varying displays of status, Xiaoyu Pu steps: reputation. India’s investment
theorist Carole Pateman, provides analyzes a rising China’s challenges in its international image powerfully
a critique of the traditional social and dilemmas on the global stage. shaped the state’s negotiation and
contract that continues to be bargaining tactics during this period.
Rebranding China demystifies how
relevant to discussions about the
the state represents its global position The Reputational Imperative
marriage contract and the employ-
by analyzing recent military trans. proves not only that reputation is a
ment contract, as well as to newer
formations, regional diplomacy, and significant driver in these conflicts
cases, such as the welfare contract
international financial negotiations. but also that it’s about more than
and the environmental contract.
Drawing on a sweeping body of simply looking good on the global
With an updated preface by the
research, including original Chinese stage. Shankar answers longstanding
author, this book speaks to ever-
sources and interdisciplinary ideas questions about Nehru’s territorial
important questions about freedom
from sociology, psychology, and negotiations and provides a deeper
and subordination.
international relations, this book puts understanding of how a state’s global
“The Sexual Contract is one of forward an innovative framework for image works. He highlights the
the most challenging and thought- interpreting China’s foreign policy. pivotal—yet often overlooked—role
provoking books that I have readit reputation can play in a broad global
has significant implications for con- “This is a must-read for anyone in-
temporary feminist debates.” terested in China’s foreign relations security context.
and China’s domestic political devel- “An enlightening and unbiased read.”
—Feminist Review
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