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Marx on Campus: A Short History of the Marburg School
Lothar Peter traces the intellectual history of the Marburg School, one of the most influential bastions of Marxist thought in post-war West Germany alongside the Frankfurt School, and situates it in the political developments of its time.
Selective Security in the War on Drugs
Paramilitaries, crime, and tens of thousands of disappeared persons—the so-called war on drugs has perpetuated violence in Latin America, at times precisely in regions of economic growth. Legal and illegal economy are difficult to distinguish. A failure of state institutions to provide security for its citizens does not sufficiently explain this. Selective Security in the War on Drugs analyzes authoritarian neoliberalism in the war on drugs in Colombia and Mexico. It interprets the “security projects” of the 2000s—when the security provided by the state became ever more selective—as embedded in processes of land appropriation, transformed property relations, and global capital accu...
The Imperial Mode of Living
With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western mode of production and living. The logic of liberal markets since the 19thCentury, and especially since World War II, has been inscribed into everyday practices that are usually unconsciously reproduced. The authors show that they are a main driver of the ecological crisis and economic and political instability. The Imperial Mode of Living implies that people's everyday practices, including individual and societal orientations, as well as identities, rely heavily on the unlimited appropriation of r...
Global Studies Directory
Publication of the Global Studies Directory represents an unprecedented project in world practice. Based on the professional assessment by a large international team of experts, the Directory offers information on the most well-known scholars, political and public figures who have made outstanding contributions to the establishment and development of global studies or made a fundamental impact on the formation of global world. The Directory also contains comprehensive information about organizations, periodicals and special literature of direct relevance to the theory and practice of globalization and fully demonstrates the state of affairs in the field of study on a global level. This project is a continuation of many years of research which first resulted in the publication of the Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary, the companion publication to the Directory.
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Boris Blank, Dieter Meier: Oh Yeah--Yello 40
A documentary history of the great Swiss electronic music duo Yello, famed for their '80s hits "The Race" and "Oh Yeah" Forty years ago, armed with tape, scissors and a hefty dose of wit, Zurich band Yello--aka Boris Blank, Dieter Meier and, initially, Carlos Perón--set out to write their very own chapter of music history. In no time at all they found themselves playing the Roxy club in New York. Today, thanks to albums such as Solid Pleasure, You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excessand Flag, and singles like "Oh Yeah" (famously included in the soundtracks to American films Ferris Bueller's Day Offand The Secret of My Success), Yello are enshrined among the pantheon of electropop pioneers. For Oh Yeah--Yello 40, the two original members dug deep into their archives to come up with an intriguing haul of Polaroids, posters, letters, fanzine reviews, sketches, pictures of their trip to Cuba and even the handwritten sheet music to "Bostich," their seminal early single.
Refeudalization and the Crisis of Civilization
Discussing the civilizatory crisis and processes of refeudalization this volume brings into dialogue two of the most creative approaches, in Olaf Kaltmeier and Edgardo Lander, to rethink capitalism in the 21st century. In Part 1, Olaf Kaltmeier, takes issue with the state of social inequality in the region, highlighting the concentration of wealth within the upper 1% of society in Latin America. Comparing the current economic situation with the ancient regime, the discussion centers around the new phenomena like billionaires as president, increased luxury consumption, an emerging culture of distinction, and the intensification of land and spatial segregation. In Part 2, Lander urgently asses...
