NEW SERIES DEMOCRACY IN TIMES OF UPHEAVAL

Edited by Matt Qvortrup

2022. XI, 243 pp.

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Volume 3

Yanina Welp THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE

Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin America

2022. XIII, 160 pp., 4 fig., 1 tab.

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Volume 4

Matt Qvortrup, Daniela Vancic (Eds.)

COMPLEMENTARY DEMOCRACY

The Art of Deliberative Listening

2022. VI, 204 pp., 6 fig., 8 tab.

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2nd Edition

10/2023. Approx. 200 pp., 3 fig., 3 tab.

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Volume 5

David W. Shin

SOUTH KOREA’S FRAGILE DEMOCRACY

The Long Shadow of North Korea’s War of Legitimacy and South Korea’s

Authoritarian Legacy

02/2024. Approx. 170 pp.

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Volume 6

Andrew Blick DEMOCRATIC TURBULENCE IN THE UNTED KINGDOM

11/2023. Approx. 200 pp.

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09/2023. Approx. 250 pp., 3 fig., 2 tab.

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Volume 8

Roslyn Fuller

PRINCIPLES OF DIGITAL DEMOCRACY

Theory and Case Studies

10/2023. Approx. 314 pp., 22 fig., 3 tab.

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Fortunato Musella

Monocratic Government

The Impact of Personalisation on Democratic Regimes

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 8

March 2022

English, VI, 156 pp., 35 fig.

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This book analyses the impact of personalisation of political leaders on democratic government. It explores topics such as governmental decrees, Trump-governance, digital innovation and the coronavirus outbreak. Offering comparative insights into how political leaders govern in the US, France, Germany, Italy and Hungary, it brings into focus the study of political personalisation in relation to some of the key trends and crises in modern politics.

Government; Prime Ministers; Personalisation; Presidentialisation; Emergency

Fortunato Musella, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.

Egodi Uchendu, Olawari D. J. Egbe (Eds.)

Nigeria's 2019 Democratic Experience

June 2022

English, XII, 240 pp., 3 fig.

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Nigeria’s democratisation efforts since attaining political independence from Britain in 1960 have been tumultuous and have spanned over three successive republics. A persistent bug decimating Nigeria’s democracy and repeatedly leading to military coups has been brazen electoral violence perpetrated by the nation’s political elite. Nigeria's 2019 Democratic Experience analyses and explains what went wrong in Nigeria’s experiment with democracy.

Nigeria; Democratization; Democracy in Nigeria; Democratic Experience; Electoral Violence; Electoral Influences; Ethnic Politics

Egodi Uchendu, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria; Olawari D. J. Egbe, Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

Nicolai N. Petro

The Tragedy of Ukraine

What Classical Greek Tragedy Can Teach Us About Conflict Resolution

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 9

December 2022

English, XIII, 285 pp., 3 fig.

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The Tragedy of Ukraine seeks to transform discourse about the Ukrainian conflict. It challenges the conventional view that this is primarily an interstate conflict. By acknowledging the conflict’s deep domestic roots, all parties within Ukraine and beyond can move from confrontation to dialogue. To assist in this endeavor, the book employs the lens of classical Greek tragedy, which has performed a similar function in Athenian society.

Ukraine; Russia; Maidan; Greek tragedy; Conflict resolution; Ukrainian politics

Nicolai N. Petro, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA.

José A. Tapia

Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 11

September 2022

English, XVI, 132 pp., 14 fig.

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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. This book discusses the importance of that crisis, surprisingly underplayed in the scientific literature, and presents evidence suggesting a potential role of the Chernobyl disaster among its causes. Eastern Europe; Chernobyl; USSR; Mortality crisis; Nuclear energy

José A. Tapia Granados, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Asoka Bandarage

Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World

Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 30

May 2023

English, XVIII, 249 pp., 22 fig.

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This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. It argues for transformation of consciousness from a philosophy of dualism and domination to one of interdependence and partnership with nature and among humanity. It offers collective and ecological alternatives and a Middle Path of sustainability and social justice.

Interdependence; Sustainability; Social Justice; Sri Lanka; Collective Alternatives

Asoka Bandarage, California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Frank Furedi

The Road to Ukraine

How the West Lost its Way

Series: De Gruyter Disruptions 2

September 2022

English, XI, 102 pp.

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The war in Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. Contrary to the claim that wars are not supposed to happen in Europe or that we live in the era of the End of History, the past has caught up with the West. The Road To Ukraine: How the West Lost Its Way argues that the failure of the West to take its past seriously has left it confused and unprepared to deal with the current crisis.

Ukraine; War in Ukraine; World War One; World War, 1914-1918; Historical Amnesia

Frank Furedi, Professor Emeritus University of Kent in Canterbury, UK.

Jean-Francois Caron

Violent Alternatives to War

Justifying Actions Against Contemporary Terrorism

Series: Facing Contemporary Terrorism 1

September 2021

English, V, 121 pp.

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Violent Alternatives to War: Justifying Actions Against Contemporary Terrorism engages in a moral discussion of the challenges associated with violent alternatives to war when confronting terrorism and suggests a comprehensive approach to how this form of violence can be legitimized and how it ought to be used against this contemporary threat. Terrorism; Political Violence; Alternatives to War; Just War Theory

Jean-François Caron, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

Jean-François Caron

The Moral Dilemmas of Fighting Terrorism and Guerrilla Groups

Series: Facing Contemporary Terrorism 2

January 2023

English, V, 128 pp.

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The Moral Dilemmas of Fighting Terrorism and Guerrilla Groups discusses pressing ethical dilemmas associated with the fight against terrorist organizations by providing readers with a rigorous, yet accessible analysis of how these forms of violence can be justified and how they ought to be fought by entities targeted by groups resorting to these strategies.

Terrorism; Guerilla Warfare; Ethics; Political violence; Counter-terrorism; Irregular threats

Jean-François Caron, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

Boris Kashnikov

The Rise of Humanitarian Terrorism

Series: Facing Contemporary Terrorism 3

March 2024

English, Approx. 200 pp.

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While wars are usually declared and waged as “just”, they should often be regarded as terrorism nonetheless. This reality is referred to as “humanitarian terrorism”. The Rise of Humanitarian Terrorism discusses its internal logic. The American-led so called “War on Terror” that emerged out of the ruins of the World Trade Center is a good example, as are the recent Russian war in Chechnya, the war in Syria and the Israeli war in Palestine. War; Terrorism; Just War Theory; Drone; Warfare Boris Kashnikov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Anton Leist, Rolf Zimmermann (Eds.)

After the War?

How the Ukraine War Challenges Political Theories

December 2023

English, Approx. 320 pp.

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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-118334-3 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-118426-5 political realism; jus ad bellum; Russia

The war by Russia against the Ukraine will be of serious consequences under a number of political categories. This book studies these consequences under the perspective of political realism, international law, standing of Western democracy, historical interpretation.

Anton Leist, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Rolf Zimmermann, University of Konstanz, Germany.

Eran Zohar

Understanding Non-State Actors

How Rebels Acquire Their Weapons

October 2023

English, Approx. 340 pp., 53 fig.

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Understanding Non-State Actors offers a historical review on non-state actors (NSAs) that have been major players in local and international politics. It is a unique look at the history of conflicts between governments and NSAs through the arming dimension. Using examples across time and place this book builds a comprehensive theory that explains how NSAs acquire weapons and the factors that influence these efforts.

Non-state-actors; Guerrilla; Weapons; Terror; Al Qaeda; ISIS

Eran Zohar, Kfar Hananya, Israel.

Bryan S. Turner

A Theory of Catastrophe

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 19

May 2023

English, V, 153 pp.

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Sociology has developed theories of social change in the fields of evolution, conflict and modernization, viewing modern society as essentially unstable and conflict driven. However, it has not seriously studied catastrophes: the total breakdown of society. A Theory of Catastrophe develops a sociology of catastrophes through historical examples, comparing natural and political causes and the social theories that might offer explanations. Social Change; Disaster; Catastrophe

Bryan S. Turner, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, Australia.

Energy Futures

Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 10

December 2022

English, VII, 227 pp., 40 fig.

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Everyday life as we knew it is increasingly challenged in a world of climate, social, health and political crisis. Energy Futures proposes and demonstrates a new critical and interventional futures-oriented energy anthropology. Combining the theories and methods of futures anthropology with the critical expertise and perspectives of energy anthropology this book disrupts the dominant narratives about how energy will be sourced, shared and used.

Energy Futures; Futures Anthropology; Data ethics; Sociotechnical Imaginaries; Crisis

Simone Abram, Durham, UK; Karen Waltorp, Copenhagen, Denmark; Nathalie Ortar, ENTPE, France; Sarah Pink, Monash, Australia.

Alan Howard, Daniel Nussbaum, Brenda Shaffer

Operational Energy

December 2023

English, Approx. 300 pp.

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ISBN 978-3-11-079650-6

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The Operational Energy textbook provides military officers and students in defense studies the knowledge and skills to effectively plan for the operational energy needs of their forces and missions.

Energy; Military Strategy and Doctrine; Logistics; Security; Planning

Brenda Shaffer, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA.

Brenda Shaffer

Iran is More Than Persia

Ethnic Politics in Iran

December 2022

English, VIII, 153 pp., 12 fig.

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Iran is more than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran analyses ethnic minorities in Iran to provide a deeper insight into the ethnic politics of the region. It explores the stability of the ruling regime in light of the challenges that multiethnicity brings. Drawing on a rich material of primary data and interviews, this book offers unparalled insights into ethnic politics in Iran.

Iran; Ethnic Groups; Ethnic Minorities; Middle East; Politics; International Relations; Foreign Policy; Revolutions; Regime Stability; Oil

Brenda Shaffer, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA.

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Carl C. Yonker

The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria

A Political History of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 1

December 2022

English, XI, 291 pp., 10 fig.

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The Syrian Social Nationalist Party devoted itself to reviving and unifying the Syrian nation and establishing this nation’s complete independence over its historical homeland, Greater Syria. It continues its struggle today, influencing and shaping Lebanese and Syrian society and politics. Yet, the party remains largely unknown and misunderstood, a condition that stems from the lack of any comprehensive study of it. This book fills this gap. Nationalism; Syria and Lebanon; Syria; Lebanon; Ideological Movements; Middle East History; Radical Politics

Carl C. Yonker, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Masoud Kazemzadeh

The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy

1949–Present

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social S ciences 20

May 2022

English, XI, 197 pp., 1 fig.

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The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy: 1949–Present presents a comprehensive overview of the Iran National Front (INF) as a historical and potential future political force. Drawing on a range of primary sources, interviews, and translated documents, the book explores and discusses the current platform of the INF, its leadership, policies, strategies, criticisms and weaknesses of the party.

Iranian history; Iran National Front; Iranian politics; Iran Nation Party; Iranian governance

Masoud Kazemzadeh, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA.

Dahlia Scheindlin

The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel

Promise Unfulfilled

Series: Democracy in Times of Upheaval 7

September 2023

English, Approx. 250 pp., 3 fig.

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A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition between religion and the rule of law; the statist society and chaotic minoritocracy; modern illiberal populism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The comprehensive portrait exposes endemic flaws of democracy in Israel, but suggests clear paths towards reaching Israel’s unfulfilled promise of democracy.

Israel; Democracy; Palestine; Religion and State; Politics; Law; Conflict

Dahlia Scheindlin, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ze'ev Maghen

Reading Revolutionary Iran

The Worldview of the Islamic Republic's Religio-Political Elite

Series: Studies on Modern Orient 46

March 2023

English, XXVIII, 662 pp.

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The aim of this volume is to take the founders and leaders of the Islamic Republic seriously as intellectuals, and expose the educated and specialist reader to their variegated but related worldviews – worldviews that are in many ways diametrically antithetical to those informing the Zeitgeist of present-day Western societies.

Iran; Khomeinism; Islamism; Khamenei

Ze’ev Maghen, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Open Access

Eylaf Bader Eddin

Translating the Language of the Syrian Revolution (2011/12)

Series: Studies on Modern Orient 43

December 2023

English, Arabic, Approx. 258 pp., 48 fig.

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This book investigates the language of the Syrian revolution and its translation into English through three levels of translation. The first level explores the context of translations from Arabic into English. The second level describes translation as an act of importation into the dominant discourse. The third level looks at translation from the margin to the center, represented by activist translations from Arabic into English.

Arab Protests; Revolutions; Activism; Social Movements

Eylaf Bader Eddin, Université Aix-Marseille, France and University of Marburg, Germany.

OOfir Winter Peace in the Name of Allah

Islamic Discourses on Treaties with Israel

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 3

February 2022

English, XIII, 246 pp., 3 fig.

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Through an analysis of dozens of fatwas, sermons, essays, books, interviews, and other media, Peace in the Name of Allah examines how Egyptian, Jordanian, and Emirati political and religious authorities introduced Islamic justifications for peace with Israel, and how those opposed countered them.

Islam and Peace; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Middle Eastern Conflict; Religion and Politics; Religion and International Relations

Dr. Ofir Winter, Institute for National Security Studies and Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Patrick Bernhagen, David Kybelka

Corona, the Lockdown and the Media

A Quantitative Frame Analysis of Media Coverage and Restrictive Policy Responses

Series: Viral Politics 2

November 2023

English, Approx. 160 pp., 36 fig.

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Corona, the Lockdown and the Media investigates media influence on political decisions to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Building on previous research, the authors propose that news reporting on the pandemic pitch human impact against economic consequences. They model the relationship between the pandemic, public opinion, policy responses and media reporting and test the model using data from France, Germany and the UK.

Public Policy; Media Influence; COVID-19; Frame Analysis; Crisis Response

Patrick Bernhagen and David Kybelka, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Iskren Ivanov

Pandemics Among Nations

U.S. Foreign Policy and the New Grand Chessboard

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences

12

June 2022

English, IX, 243 pp., 6 fig.

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Pandemics Among Nations addresses the geopolitical puzzle of the post-pandemic world order and explains how COVID19 has remastered Brzezinski’s theory of the Grand Chessboard. Ivanov argues that a China-led system of alliances will prove to be a bigger challenge to US global dominance than a unified Eurasia. If the United States desire to preserve their dominant position in the post-pandemic age they need to reshape their concept of smart power.

United States; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; International Relations; International Order; World Order; Chessboard

Iskren Ivanov, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Raj Chari, Isabel Rozas

Viruses, Vaccines, and Antivirals: Why Politics Matters

Series: Viral Politics 1

November 2021

English, XIII, 129 pp., 42 fig.

Pb. *RRP € 29.95 [D] / RRP US$ 30.99 / RRP £ 26.00

ISBN 978-3-11-076484-0

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This short book brings together novel crossinterdisciplinary investigation from both natural and social science, representing a true hybrid across disciplines examining the ‘politics’ and ‘science’ of COVID-19. Viruses, Vaccines, and Antivirals: Why Politics Matters considers the dynamics surrounding viruses, proposed vaccines, and antiviral therapies, contextualizing what governments have done during the COVID-19 crisis. COVID-19; Pandemics; Viral Politics; Vaccines; Antivirals

Raj Chari and Isabel Rozas, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

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Pick, Avijit Sarkar Global Digital Divides in the COVID-19 Era

James

Purposeful Use of the Internet and Technologies

Series: Digital Geographies 2

June 2024

English, Approx. 260 pp.

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This book examines global digital divides prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing internet and technology trends, spatial distributions, determinants, and the aspiration of an equitable digital society. Purposeful use of the internet and technologies is analysed globally and for most major regions and countries. In digitally-underserved economies, basic use is examined. In advanced economies, AI and machine learning is showcased.

Pandemic; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Internet; Technology

James B. Pick & Avijit Sarkar, School of Business, University of Redlands, Redlands, USA.

Deborah Lupton, Clare Southerton, Marianne Clark, Ash Watson The Face Mask In COVID Times

A Sociomaterial Analysis

December 2022

English, XIII, 102 pp., 17 fig.

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ISBN 978-3-11-111665-5

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Beyond its role as a protective covering against coronavirus infection, the face mask is the bearer of immense symbolic and political power and arouses intense emotions. Adopting an international perspective informed by social theory, The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis offers an intriguing and original investigation of the social, cultural and historical dimensions of face-masking as a practice in the age of COVID.

COVID-19; Face Mask; Pandemic; Anti-Mask Activism; Sociology Of COVID

Deborah Lupton, Marianne Clark, Ash Watson, Vitalities Lab, UNSW Sydney; Clare Southerton, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Gerard Delanty (Ed.)

Pandemics, Politics, and Society

Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis

February 2021

English, VIII, 270 pp., 1 fig.

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With dynamic contributions from key academics, Pandemics, Politics, and Society shows that Covid-19 has widespread implications for the core of our society. Articles range across its social, economic and political dimensions, including the role of medical experts, emergency governance and social inequalities. This volume is accessible to both academics and the public, and directly relates to courses on pandemics, global risks and mega-hazards.

Pandemic; Society; Social Organisation; Ethics; Emergency Governance

Gerard Delanty, Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.

Open Access

Lobbying

Strategies, Access and Influence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Series: Viral Politics 3

November 2022

English, XI, 162 pp., 25 fig.

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ISBN 978-3-11-078390-2

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ISBN 978-3-11-078305-6

Pandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. The contributions in this book analyse patterns in and implications of this ‘viral lobbying’. Based on surveys and focus group interviews, the book provides novel evidence on the lobbying strategies used during the pandemic, as well as the resulting access to and lobbying influence on public policy.

Public Policy; Lobbying; Pandemic Politics; Stakeholder Consultation

Michele Crepaz, Queen’s University Belfast, Wiebke M. Junk, Univ. of Copenhagen, Marcel Hanegraaff, Joost Berkhout, Univ. of Amsterdam.

Race and Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean

A Crossview from Brazil

Series: Latin America in Perspective 1

December 2022

English, XVI, 206 pp., 8 fig., Photo Section auf den S. XIV-XVI (auf Bilderdruckpapier!)

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Race and Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Crossview from Brazil discusses the racial issue in Latin America by inserting Brazil’s perspective within the regional debate. Through a dialogical scheme, the volume offers a panorama of historical contexts and distinctions, contemporary state of affairs, mobilizations and interethnic relations of the black population and the impact of racial policies across the region.

Afro descendants; Racism; Discrimination; Latin America; Social movements

Rebecca Lemos Igreja, U Brasilia; Richard Santos, UFS Bahia, Brazil; Carlos Agudelo, U de Paris, France.

Frank Furedi

100 Years of Identity Crisis

Culture War Over Socialisation

September 2021

English, VIII, 251 pp.

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ISBN 978-3-11-070512-6

The concept of Identity Crisis came into use in the 1940s and has continued to dominate the cultural zeitgeist ever since. This exploration of its origins argues that its principal driver was and continues to be the conflict surrounding the socialisation of young people, which provides a terrain on which the Culture Wars and the politicisation of identity has flourished. This study is a unique account of the origins and rise of the Culture Wars. Identity Crisis; Socialisation; Culture War

Frank Furedi, Professor Emeritus University of Kent in Canterbury, UK.

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Ingrid

Biese Men Do It Too

Opting Out and In

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 2

July 2022

English, X, 179 pp.

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ISBN 978-3-11-072498-1

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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-072579-7 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-072590-2

Men Do It Too: Opting Out and In introduces readers to the research and debate on opting out and offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of men leaving mainstream careers to live and work on their own terms. The book investigates how contemporary life on the one hand and masculine norms and work expectations on the other affect men’s decisions to opt out, what they do instead, and how these decisions affect them.

Men; Masculinities; Opting Out; Career; Sustainable Lifestyles

Ingrid Biese, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Bent Greve (Ed.)

De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences

Handbooks 1

September 2022

English, VII, 445 pp., 73 fig.

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ISBN 978-3-11-072124-9 eBook *RRP € / RRP US$ / RRP £

PDF ISBN 978-3-11-072176-8 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-072182-9

Globalisation, regionalisation, new technology, demography, voters’ expectations and re-structuring of societies are expected to influence welfare state development for years to come. This handbook analyses how different welfare state models and regimes will be able to cope with contemporary and future challenges, providing a variety of evidence based tools that make it essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers alike. Welfare State; Social Policy; Sustainability Bent Greve, University of Roskilde, Denmark.

Cara Reed, Michael Reed Enough of Experts

Expert Authority in Crisis

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 17

May 2023

English, VII, 232 pp.

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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-073491-1 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-073497-3

Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the challenges to expert authority in neoliberal political economies and societies, critically assessing the orthodox or ‘received’ model of expert authority as it has come under escalating pressures from a nexus of ideological, organizational, technological and cultural changes. The book also presents a new model of expert authority grounded in the ‘dynamics of contestation and trust’. Experts; Expert authority; Power; Control

Cara Reed and Michael Reed, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.

Matías Saidel

Neoliberalism Reloaded

Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 13

January 2023

English, X, 199 pp.

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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-072393-9 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-072401-1

Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right analyzes the violent enforcement of neoliberal governmentality and the emergence of a new Right that combines political authoritarianism with neoliberal economic principles. It shows that the roots of the violence lie within neoliberal power apparatuses whose racialized, colonized, genderized and precarized populations cannot adjust to competitive norms.

Punitive Neoliberalism; Neofascism; Neoliberal Governmentality; Dispossession; Right-wing Populism

Matías Saidel, National University of Entre Ríos & CONICET, Argentina.

Rodney Loeppky

A Deal They Can’t Resist

Adaptive Accumulation and American Public Policy

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 7

January 2022

English, VI, 148 pp., 1 fig.

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ISBN 978-3-11-076174-0 eBook *RRP € / RRP US$ / RRP £

PDF ISBN 978-3-11-076180-1 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-076185-6

This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation, a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public programs, as a means to reroute public revenues into private revenue streams. Along the way, corporations project quasi-public aspirations as a central part of their commercial mission, as the state carves out new – or expands old – areas of accumulative growth for corporate America.

US Politics; US Political Economy; US Public Policy, Privatization; Inequality

Rodney Loeppky, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Isabel Heinemann

Family Values

Divorce, Working Women, and Reproductive Rights in TwentiethCentury America

Transl. by Alex Skinner

September 2023

English, Approx. 570 pp., 25 fig.

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ISBN 978-3-11-103553-6 eBook

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Divorce, working women, and reproductive rights radically changed family structures in the United States over the course of the 20 century. Yet is this also true for family values and gender norms? Has there truly been a “value shift” of the family? For the first time, Isabel Heinemann examines public debate and expert discourse on the American family and its values from a long-term perspective and comes to surprising conclusions.

United States of America; family; working women; societal change; marriage; 20th century

Isabel Heinemann, University of Münster, Germany.

Open Access

Frank Jacob, Jowan A. Mohammed (Eds.)

Gender and Protest

On the Historical and Contemporary Interrelation of Two Social Phenomena

Funded by Nord University

September 2023

English, V, 257 pp., 1 fig.

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ISBN 978-3-11-110013-5

For centuries women had to protest to gain equality. Their demands were often matched by counter-protest from conservative forces within historical societies.The present volume will take a closer look at the interrelationship between gender and protest and also analyze and discuss the diverse impacts of this special coherence of the two historical forces.

Protest; gender studies; women's studies

Frank Jacob, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway; Jowan A. Mohammed, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway.

OAnna Peterson (Ed.)

With God on Our Side

Religion, Social Movements, and Social Change

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 33

June 2024

English, Approx. 220 pp.

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ISBN 978-3-11-123536-3 eBook *RRP € / RRP US$ / RRP £

PDF ISBN 978-3-11-123538-7 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-123548-6

Religion plays a central role in a variety of social movements, including many that are not explicitly faith-based. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the ways religion contributes movements for social change. It draws on a variety of global case studies to build an argument about religion’s distinctive capacity to provide logistical support, to inspire activist practices, and to link big ideas to everyday experiences.

Social Movements; Religion; Social Change; Activism; Religious Movements

Anna Peterson, University of Florida, USA.

Emily Beausoleil Staging Democracy

The Political Work of Live Performance

Series: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Politics 1

August 2023

English, X, 176 pp., 32 fig.

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Staging Democracy brings together creative practices and multidisciplinary scholarship to show that the very qualities that have led some to think of the arts as unclear, irrational, and irresponsible – and thus politically suspect – lie behind performance’s distinct potency to enact democratic forms of engagement in conditions of deep difference and inequality.

Democracy; pluralism; performance; inequality; aesthetics; civic dialogue

Emily Beausoleil, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand.

Stephen R. O'Sullivan

The Comic Book as Research Tool

Creative Visual Research for the Social Sciences

October 2023

English, Approx. 240 pp., 11 fig.

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ISBN 978-3-11-078105-2 eBook *RRP € / RRP US$ / RRP £

PDF ISBN 978-3-11-078113-7 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-078122-9

The Comic Book as Research Tool: Creative Visual Research for the Social Sciences explores the potential of the comic book in research. It illustrates the value of the comic form and its ability to support the challenges of the research process. It explains how the comic can aid researchers in data collection and communication. It positions the comic amongst other creative and visual media as means to attract new audiences for scientific research.

Comic Book; Visual Research; Methodology; Research Representation; Communication; Education Media

Stephen R. O’Sullivan, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Antoinette Pole, Renée van Vechten

The Politics and Policy of Food

Power, Sustainability, and Wellness

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences

18

February 2024

English, Approx. XX, 300 pp., 20 fig.

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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-074087-5 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-074095-0

The Politics and Policy of Food provides an overview of the food system in the context of US culture and politics, examining food policy and its socio-historical and political development through the lenses of power, sustainability, and wellness, and depicting how this complex system does—and doesn’t—work.

Food policy; Politics of food; Food systems; Public health; Environmental sustainability

Antoinette Pole, Montclair State University, New York, USA; Renée Van Vechten, University of Redlands, California, USA.

The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary

A Case Study in Authoritarianism, Culture War and Resistance

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 6

March 2022

English, XX, 232 pp.

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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-074981-6 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-074993-9

The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary: A Case Study in Culture War, Authoritarianism and Resistance presents a case study as to how an authoritarian regime like the one in Hungary seeks to tame academic freedom.

Academic freedom; Authoritarian populism; Academic capitalism; Resistance; Knowledge production

Andrew Ryder, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.