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Violence and Reflexivity
Addressing the relationship among social critique, violence, and domination, Violence and Reflexivity: The Place of Critique in the Reality of Domination examines a critique of violent and unjust social arrangements that transcends the Enlightenment/postmodern opposition. This critique surpasses the “reflexive violence” of classical enlightenment universalism without committing the “violence of reflexivity” by negating any possibility of collective radical social engagement. The unifying thread of the collection, edited by Marjan Ivković, Adriana Zaharijević, and Gazela Pudar-Draško, is a sensitivity to the field of tension created by these extremes, especially for the issue of ho...
Sociological Amnesia
The history of sociology overwhelmingly focuses on 'the winners' from the classical 'canon' - Marx, Durkheim, and Weber - to today's most celebrated sociologists. This book strikingly demonstrates that restricting sociology in this way impoverishes it as a form of historically reflexive knowledge and obscures the processes and struggles of sociology's own making as a form of disciplinary knowledge. Sociological Amnesia focuses on singular contributions to sociology that were once considered central to the discipline but are today largely neglected. Chapters explore the work of illustrious predecessors such as Raymond Aron, Erich Fromm and G.D.H. Cole as well as examining exceptional cases of...
Revolution of Things
An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran In Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics. To show how shifting relations between things and terms form the grounds for different modes of action, Sefat reconstructs the political history of postrevolutionary Iran at the intersection of everyday objects and words. Just as Islamism fashioned its own objects in Tehran during the 1980s, he explains, tyrannical objects generated a distinct form of Islamism by means of their material properties; everyday t...
Mass Intellectuality of the Neoliberal State
This book addresses the political effects of the massification of higher education and intellectual labor in the neoliberal state. Using the case of Chile, the author argues that public professionalism emerges in the mass university system, producing excesses of knowledge which infuse the state with political purpose at many levels. The emergence of the student movement in 2011, then the major social mobilization against the neoliberal state since the restoration of democracy in 1990, provided a clear manifestation of the politicization and ideological divisions of the mass university system. In conditions of mass intellectuality, public professionals mobilize their political affinities and links with society, eventually affecting the direction of state power, even against neoliberal policy. Through several interviews with academics, public professionals, and other documentary and statistical analyses, the book illustrates the different sites of political socialization and the ideological effectiveness of the emergent mass intellectuality of the neoliberal state.
Violence and Reflexivity
This book presents a multi-faceted reconsideration of dominant approaches to violence and social critique. Its unifying thread is a dedication to overcoming violence and domination on a scale larger than individual micro-resistances, even as many contributors reject programmatic thought and "self-possessed" political action.
The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities
Assesses the rise of the 'New' Humanities alongside the traditional disciplines and inter-disciplinary 'studies' areas, stressing the positive impact of the Humanities and confronting the threats facing them today.
Advances in Databases and Information Systems
The 3rd Eastern European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS’99) took place on 13-16- September 1999, in Maribor, Slovenia. It was organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, the Moscow chapter of ACM SIGMOD, Slovenian Society Informatika, and the Slovenian Ministry of Technology. The aim of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the exchange of scientific achievements and experiences using innovative methods and approaches between the research communities of Central and Eastern Europe and the rest of the world in the area of databases and information systems. The 1999 conference continues the series of ADBIS events held in Moscow, St. Peters...
A resistência internacional ao golpe de 2016
A Resistência Internacional ao Golpe de 2016: Compreendendo um dos Períodos mais Polarizados da Política Brasileira Recente Esta obra, essencial para entender a política brasileira contemporânea, foi organizada por Carol Proner, Gisele Cittadino, Juliana Neuenschwander, Katarina Peixoto e Marília Carvalho Guimarães. Ela apresenta uma coleção de artigos e análises de acadêmicos, juristas e ativistas internacionais sobre o impeachment da ex-Presidente Dilma Rousseff. Com contribuições de figuras como Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Boaventura de Sousa Santos e Noam Chomsky, o livro contesta a narrativa convencional do impeachment, classificando-o como um golpe político. Este volume oferece um mergulho nas implicações legais, sociais e políticas do evento, proporcionando uma visão global sobre as transformações no Brasil e na América Latina. É uma leitura indispensável para quem deseja entender as complexidades da política atual e as ondas de mudança no cenário internacional.
Bioinspired Optimization Methods and Their Applications
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and Their Applications, BIOMA 2022, held in Maribor, Slovenia, in November 2022. The 19 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers in this BIOMA proceedings specialized in bioinspired algorithms as a means for solving the optimization problems and came in two categories: theoretical studies and methodology advancements on the one hand, and algorithm adjustments and their applications on the other.
