 | | | | Discourses of the Perverse -reading the symptoms, rewriting the future There is no pure 'thing' called democracy. Yet its perversion from an ideal held however indistinctly by those who yearn to be free of some 'thing' that holds them back from expressing what they feel is their potential, their right, their dream, is a source of anguish, anxiety, anger and ultimately violence. It suggests a 'thing' never quite lost, never quite found but always a nagging hope of something better that could be achieved if only .. if only what? Some sense of trying to give shape to the 'if only' as a dream of a democracy of the people has variously been seen recently in the... |
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| Baal and the Politics of Poetry "Introduction" Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within the political context of its production. The book argues that the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its audience about the nature of human politics. By attuning ourselves to the specific historical context of this one poem, we can develop a more nuanced... |
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| The Politics and Complexities of Crisis Management in Ukraine: A Historical Perspective Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. In the decades between the end of the cold war and the crisis of 2014, the country suffered a large decline in agricultural and industrial production, plunging economic indicators into a sharp decline and leading to large-scale poverty and hardship. This collection by leading scholars from the region explores the various crises affecting Ukraine since independence. Valuable crisis management research is made available from both Russian and Ukrainian sources and the on-going crisis in Ukraine put in context and analysed. |
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| "Rethinking the health consequences of social class and social mobility", Early View (2018) The task of studying the impact of social class on physical and mental health involves, among other things, the use of a conceptual toolbox that defines what social class is, establishes how to measure it, and sets criteria that help distinguish it from closely related concepts. One field that has recently witnessed a wealth of theoretical and conceptual research on social class is psychology, but geographers' and sociologists' attitude of diffidence toward this " positivistic " discipline has prevented them from taking advantage of this body of scholarship. This paper aims to highlight... |
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| The end of alternatives? Capitalist transformation, rural activism and the politics of possibility in China This paper examines the politics of possibility for rural activism in reform era China. By periodizing rural reforms from 1990, we explore the political-economic changes that have coalesced in the reform era, and how these changes condition forms and possibilities of activism. We argue that the current modernization–urbanization drive that emerged around 2008 is foreclosing opportunities for the pro-peasant cooperative forms that New Rural Reconstruction activists imagined earlier in the decade. Instead, as the process of capitalist agrarian change deepens in the countryside, food- and... |
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| The class politics of prejudice: Brexit and the land of no-hope and glory 1 The debates relating to social class and whether it is still a useful concept in describing a lived reality of the British population has never been far away from media, political and academic dispute. Thatcher's Britain throughout the 1980s attempted to dilute class meaning with what was called 'a home owning democ-racy' and thus end class collective politics through easily available credit for the working class while simultaneously attacking trade union organization, recruitment and political action. During the late 1990s and into the noughties a 'New Labour' administration attempted to... |
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| The Comic Counterfactual: Laughter, Affect, and Civic Alternatives This project contributes the comic counterfactual to the critical lexicon of rhetorical studies. Using a range of examples from political comedy, this paper offers six distinguishing features and several temporal functions of this concept. I argue that the comic counterfactual invites audiences to critically reflect upon the political, social, and performative consequences of historical events by bringing affective, sensory weight to alternative visions, moving unaccountable private interests into public culture, targeting the subtle determinisms that can easily creep into communication,... |
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| A century of rural self-governance reforms: reimagining rural Chinese society in the post-taxation era In 2006, the Chinese central government abolished the agricultural tax. This came after several years of intense focus on the growing rural crisis, sparking a new debate on the shape of rural society. Putting these contemporary debates in the context of 100 years of rural governance reforms, this paper argues that contemporary rural advocates find themselves in a situation similar to that of the first half of the twentieth century, and their reimagination of rural governance draws on the ideas of that time as well. It focuses on the contemporary visions for rural reform of Xu Yong, Dang... |
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| John Morrow and Jonathan Scott (eds.), Liberty, Authority, Formality (book review) A review of: John Morrow & Jonathan Scott (eds.), Liberty, Authority, Formality, The European Legacy, 15:7, 2010, 906-7 |
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