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Titre : The Politics of Ritual Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Molly FARNETH Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2023 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691198910 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political livesThe Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals. In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Molly Farneth argues that rituals are social practices in which people create, maintain, and transform themselves and their societies. Far from mere scripts or mechanical routines, rituals are dynamic activities bound up in processes of continuity and change. Emphasizing the significance of rituals in democratic engagement, Farneth shows how people adapt their rituals to redraw the boundaries of their communities, reallocate goods and power within them, and cultivate the habits of citizenship.Transforming our understanding of rituals and their vital role in the political conflicts and social movements of our time, The Politics of Ritual examines a broad range of rituals enacted to just and democratic ends, including border Eucharists, candlelight vigils, and rituals of mourning. This timely book makes a persuasive case for an innovative democratic ritual life that can enable people to create and sustain communities that are more just, inclusive, and participatory than those in which they find themselves. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88957130 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=596844 The Power of Hope : How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair / Carol GRAHAM / Princeton University Press (2023)
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Titre : The Power of Hope : How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Carol GRAHAM Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2023 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691233918 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that predict future life outcomes. In this timely and innovative account, economist Carol Graham argues for the importance of hope—little studied in economics at present—as an independent dimension of well-being. Given America’s current mental health crisis, thrown into stark relief by COVID, hope may be the most important measure of well-being, and researchers are tracking trends in hope as a key factor in understanding the rising numbers of “deaths of despair” and premature mortality.Graham, an authority on the study of well-being, points to empirical evidence demonstrating that hope can improve people’s life outcomes and that despair can destroy them. These findings, she argues, merit deeper exploration. Graham discusses the potential of novel well-being metrics as tracking indicators of despair, reports on new surveys of hope among low-income adolescents, and considers the implications of the results for the futures of these young adults.Graham asks how and why the wealthiest country in the world has such despair. What are we missing? She argues that public policy problems—from joblessness and labor force dropout to the lack of affordable health care and inadequate public education—can’t be solved without hope. Drawing on research in well-being and other disciplines, Graham describes strategies for restoring hope in populations where it has been lost. The need to address despair, and to restore hope, is critical to America’s future. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88956864 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=595595 The Price of Collapse : The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China / Timothy BROOK / Princeton University Press (2023)
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Titre : The Price of Collapse : The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Timothy BROOK Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2023 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691253695 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule.The mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster, the Ming price regime collapsed, and with it the Ming political regime.A masterful work of scholarship, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88957236 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=597041
Titre : The State Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Philip PETTIT Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2023 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691182209 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopherThe future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper? Or is the state just not up to the task? In this book, the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit examines the nature of the state and its capacity to serve goals like peace and justice within and beyond its borders. In doing so, he breaks new ground by making the state the focus of political theory—with implications for economic, legal, and social theory—and presents a persuasive, historically informed image of an institution that lies at the center of our lives.Offering an account that is more realist than utopian, Pettit starts from the function the polity is meant to serve, looks at how it can best discharge that function, and explores its ability to engage beneficially in the life of its citizens. This enables him to identify an ideal of statehood that is a precondition of justice. Only if states approximate this functional ideal will they be able to deal with the perennial problems of extreme poverty and bitter discord as well as the challenges that loom over the coming centuries, including climate change, population growth, and nuclear arms. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88957058 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=596604 To Build a Black Future : The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care / Christopher Paul HARRIS / Princeton University Press (2023)
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Titre : To Build a Black Future : The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Christopher Paul HARRIS Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2023 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691257280 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and careWhen #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. To Build a Black Future examines the spirit and significance of this insurgency, offering a revelatory account of a new political culture—responsive to pain, suffused with joy, and premised on care—emerging from the centuries-long arc of Black rebellion, a tradition that traces back to the Black slave.Drawing on his own experiences as an activist and organizer, Christopher Paul Harris takes readers inside the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) to chart the propulsive trajectory of Black politics and thought from the Middle Passage to the present historical moment. Carefully attending to the social forces that produce Black struggle and the contradictions that arise within it, Harris illustrates how M4BL gives voice to an abolitionist praxis that bridges the past, present, and future, outlining a political project at once directed inward to the Black community while issuing an outward challenge to the world.Essential reading for the age of #BlackLivesMatter, this visionary and provocative book reveals how the radical politics of joy, pain, and care, in sharp contrast to liberal political thought, can build a Black future that transcends ideology and pushes the boundaries of our political imagination. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88956715 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=595452 Virtuous Bankers : A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England / Anne MURPHY / Princeton University Press (2023)
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PermalinkAfghanistan : A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition / Thomas J. BARFIELD / Princeton University Press (2022)
PermalinkAfrica’s Struggle for Its Art : History of a Postcolonial Defeat / Bénédicte SAVOY / Princeton University Press (2022)
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PermalinkAporophobia : Why We Reject the Poor Instead of Helping Them / Adela CORTINA / Princeton University Press (2022)
PermalinkBecoming Great Universities : Small Steps for Sustained Excellence / Richard J. LIGHT / Princeton University Press (2022)
PermalinkBehind Deep Blue : Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion / Feng-Hsiung HSU / Princeton University Press (2022)
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