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Travellers of the World Revolution
The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on 20th-century history. The book offers a new and fascinating account of this transnational organisation founded in 1919 by Lenin and Trotsky and dissolved by Stalin in 1943, telling the story through the eyes of the activists who became its "professional revolutionaries". Studer follows such figures as Willi Mnzenberg, Mikhail Borodin, M.N. Roy and Evelyn Trent, Tina Modotti, Agnes Smedley and many others less well-known as they are despatched to the successive political hotspots of the 1920s and '30s, from revolutionary Berlin to Baku, from Shanghai to Spain, from Nazi G...
Western Privilege
Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers, high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this book, Amélie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the processes that lead to the formation of Westerners as a social group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting and contingent nature of Westernness—and also its deep connection to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities of the global South.
Exchanges and Correspondence
Through the eighteen essays of this book, the reader becomes the beholder of a challenging survey of “feminism-in-the-making,” from its early stages in the 18th century to the present, in Anglo-Saxon countries and elsewhere, including Eastern Europe and some places under the influence of communism or Islam. The development of exchanges and correspondence enabled feminism to pre-exist the word itself, which leads several contributors to ponder over its meaning as well as over the notion of influence, a pivotal component of their reflection. Through the complex interplay of harmony and disharmony, openly acknowledged or carefully hidden similarities or differences, and the delineation of t...
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Les Fugitives
L’auteur retrace le destin d’une quinzaine de jeunes femmes qui quittent leur pays du jour au lendemain, laissant parfois derrière elle famille, emploi et dans les cas les plus tragiques, des enfants. A travers ses longs portraits de « fugitives », Hélène Coutard décrit avec beaucoup de sensibilité l’insoutenable condition féminine en Arabie saoudite ; les stratégies, les ruses pour préparer la fuite. Un matin, faire comme si on partait pour son cours d’anglais et demander au taxi de foncer vers l’aéroport. Les périples sont des véritables épopées, éprouvantes, rocambolesques avec tout au bout, au Canada, en Australie ou en France, l’espoir d’une vie meilleure. ...
Sex and Secularism
"Drawing on a wealth of scholarship by second-wave feminists and historians of religion, race, and colonialism, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked today as a fundamental and enduring principle was not originally associated with the term "secularism" when it first entered the lexicon in the nineteenth century. In fact, the inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the articulation of the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. Scott points out that Western nation-states imposed a new order of women's subordination, assigning them to a feminized familial sphere meant to complement the rational masculine realms of politics and economics. It was not until the question of Islam arose in the late twentieth century that gender equality became a primary feature of the discourse of secularism"-- Publisher's description
Desigualdades en la globalización
La condición de transnacionalidad no constituye un fenómeno nuevo. Durkheim y Mauss, ya a principios del siglo XX elaboraron herramientas analíticas para estudiar los “hechos sociales transnacionales”, tales como lenguas comunes, ideas literarias y creencias religiosas que atraviesan las fronteras; hechos que no están ligados a un organismo estatal determinado. Este libro, que reúne un conjunto de textos que Anne-Catherine Wagner escribió en distintos momentos durante los últimos veinte años, interroga –desde diferentes investigaciones y aristas– la configuración de un espacio social transnacional y las posibilidades desiguales de movilidad –en sentido amplio– en esta et...
Dictionary of European actors
If the European political space has been extensively explored, research has remained all too often focused on the institutions of the European Union and the Council of Europe rather than on the actors who make Europe. This dictionary brings a new angle to scholarship on Europe by systematically investigating its actors: those who work within the institutions or in close contact with them; those who are the targets of European policies; those in the name of whom reforms are carried out; those who promote Europe and those who oppose it. It showcases a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach that bridges the usual separation between the European Union and the Council of Europe. In each entry,...
Au-delà et en deçà de l'État
Étude de la problématique "genre et politique" au-delà, en deçà, voire à côté de l'Etat. Elle s'intéresse aux relations entre mouvements de femmes, politiques publiques destinées à promouvoir l'égalité des sexes et dynamiques transnationales et multi-niveaux. Elle déplace le regard de l'enceinte étatique vers un monde complexe où les pouvoirs s'enchevêtrent et interagissent.--[Memento].
