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Brazilian Authoritarianism : Past and Present / Lilia Moritz SCHWARCZ / Princeton University Press (2022)
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Titre : Brazilian Authoritarianism : Past and Present Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Lilia Moritz SCHWARCZ Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2022 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691230726 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : How Brazil’s long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country’s present crises and epidemic of violenceBrazil has long nurtured a cherished national myth, one of a tolerant, peaceful, and racially harmonious society. A closer look at the nation's heritage, however, reveals a far more troubling story. In Brazilian Authoritarianism, esteemed anthropologist and historian Lilia Schwarcz presents a provocative and panoramic overview of Brazilian culture and history to demonstrate how the nation has always been staunchly authoritarian. It has papered over centuries of racially motivated cruelty and exploitation—sources of the structural oppression experienced today by its Black and Indigenous population. Linking the country’s violent past to its dire present, Schwarcz shows why the social democratic left was defeated and how Jair Bolsonaro ascended to the presidency.Schwarcz travels through five hundred years of colonial history to consider Brazil’s allegiance to slavery, which made it the last country to abolish the system. She delves into eight elements that pervade Brazil’s problematic culture: racism, bossism, patrimonialism, corruption, inequality, violence, gender issues, and intolerance. But Schwarcz also argues that Brazil’s future is not absolutely hopeless. History is not destiny, and even as the nation experiences its worst crises ever—social, political, moral, and environmental—it has the potential to overcome them.A stark, revealing investigation into Brazil’s difficult roots, Brazilian Authoritarianism shines a light on how the country might imagine a more hopeful path forward. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88956946 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=596425 Breaking the Social Media Prism : How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing / Chris BAIL / Princeton University Press (2022)
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Titre : Breaking the Social Media Prism : How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Chris BAIL Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2022 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691241401 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social mediaIn an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. Breaking the Social Media Prism challenges common myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and radicalizing algorithms, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves.Drawing on innovative online experiments and in-depth interviews with social media users from across the political spectrum, this book explains why stepping outside of our echo chambers can make us more polarized, not less. Bail takes you inside the minds of online extremists through vivid narratives that trace their lives on the platforms and off—detailing how they dominate public discourse at the expense of the moderate majority. Wherever you stand on the spectrum of user behavior and political opinion, he offers fresh solutions to counter political tribalism from the bottom up and the top down. He introduces new apps and bots to help readers avoid misperceptions and engage in better conversations with the other side. Finally, he explores what the virtual public square might look like if we could hit "reset" and redesign social media from scratch through a first-of-its-kind experiment on a new social media platform built for scientific research.Providing data-driven recommendations for strengthening our social media connections, Breaking the Social Media Prism shows how to combat online polarization without deleting our accounts. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88957097 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=586309 Can College Level the Playing Field? : Higher Education in an Unequal Society / Sandy BAUM / Princeton University Press (2022)
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Titre : Can College Level the Playing Field? : Higher Education in an Unequal Society Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Sandy BAUM Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2022 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691232928 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injusticeWe often think that a college degree will open doors to opportunity regardless of one’s background or upbringing. In this eye-opening book, two of today’s leading economists argue that higher education alone cannot overcome the lasting effects of inequality that continue to plague us, and offer sensible solutions for building a more just and equitable society.Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson document the starkly different educational and social environments in which children of different races and economic backgrounds grow up, and explain why social equity requires sustained efforts to provide the broadest possible access to high-quality early childhood and K–12 education. They dismiss panaceas like eliminating college tuition and replacing the classroom experience with online education, revealing why they fail to provide better education for those who need it most, and discuss how wages in our dysfunctional labor market are sharply skewed toward the highly educated. Baum and McPherson argue that greater investment in the postsecondary institutions that educate most low-income and marginalized students will have a bigger impact than just getting more students from these backgrounds into the most prestigious colleges and universities.While the need for reform extends far beyond our colleges and universities, there is much that both academic and government leaders can do to mitigate the worst consequences of America’s deeply seated inequalities. This book shows how we can address the root causes of social injustice and level the playing field for students and families before, during, and after college. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88956676 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=595238
Titre : Capitalism : The Story behind the Word Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Michael SONENSCHER Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2022 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691238883 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politicsWhat exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher shows that many of our received ideas fail to pick up the work that the idea of capitalism is doing for us, without us even realizing it.“Capitalism” was first coined in France in the early nineteenth century. It began as a fusion of two distinct sets of ideas. The first involved thinking about public debt and war finance. The second involved thinking about the division of labour. Sonenscher shows that thinking about the first has changed radically over time. Funding welfare has been added to funding warfare, bringing many new questions in its wake. Thinking about the second set of ideas has offered far less room for manoeuvre. The division of labour is still the division of labour and the debates and discussions that it once generated have now been largely forgotten. By exploring what lay behind the earlier distinction before it collapsed and was eroded by the passage of time, Sonenscher shows why the present range of received ideas limits our political options and the types of reform we might wish for. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88956947 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=596418 Christianity's American Fate : How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular / David A. HOLLINGER / Princeton University Press (2022)
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Titre : Christianity's American Fate : How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular Type de document : e-book Auteurs : David A. HOLLINGER Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2022 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691233888 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural lifeHow did American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white evangelicalism? This sweeping work by a leading historian of modern America traces the rise of the evangelical movement and the decline of mainline Protestantism’s influence on American life. In Christianity’s American Fate, David Hollinger shows how the Protestant establishment, adopting progressive ideas about race, gender, sexuality, empire, and divinity, liberalized too quickly for some and not quickly enough for others. After 1960, mainline Protestantism lost members from both camps—conservatives to evangelicalism and progressives to secular activism. A Protestant evangelicalism that was comfortable with patriarchy and white supremacy soon became the country’s dominant Christian cultural force.Hollinger explains the origins of what he calls Protestantism’s “two-party system” in the United States, finding its roots in America’s religious culture of dissent, as established by seventeenth-century colonists who broke away from Europe’s religious traditions; the constitutional separation of church and state, which enabled religious diversity; and the constant influx of immigrants, who found solidarity in churches. Hollinger argues that the United States became not only overwhelmingly Protestant but Protestant on steroids. By the 1960s, Jews and other non-Christians had diversified the nation ethnoreligiously, inspiring more inclusive notions of community. But by embracing a socially diverse and scientifically engaged modernity, Hollinger tells us, ecumenical Protestants also set the terms by which evangelicals became reactionary. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88956863 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=595594 A Commonwealth of Hope : Augustine's Political Thought / Michael LAMB / Princeton University Press (2022)
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PermalinkDoing the Right Thing : How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring / Marybeth GASMAN / Princeton University Press (2022)
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PermalinkFixing the Climate : Strategies for an Uncertain World / Charles F. SABEL / Princeton University Press (2022)
PermalinkFrom Development to Democracy : The Transformations of Modern Asia / Dan SLATER / Princeton University Press (2022)
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