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Political Culture Political Science and Identity Politics

• Author : Howard J. Wiarda
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2016-04-08
• Genre : Political Science
• Pages : 214
• ISBN : 9781317078852

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Political Culture (defined as the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns underlying the political system) has long had an uneasy relationship with political science. Identity politics is the latest incarnation of this conflict. Everyone agrees that culture and identity are important, specifically political culture, is important in understanding other countries and global regions, but no one agrees how much or how precisely to measure it. In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others. Today, political culture, now updated to include identity politics, stands as one of these great explanatory paradigms in political science, the others being structuralism and institutionalism. Rather than seeing them as diametrically exposed, Howard Wiarda shows how they may be made complementary and woven together in more complex, multicausal explanations. This book is brief, highly readable, provocative and certain to stimulate discussion. It will be of interest to general readers and as a text in courses in international relations, comparative politics, foreign policy, and Third World studies.

Introduction to Politics

• Author : Robert Garner
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2020-03-15
• Genre : Political Science
• Pages : 632
• ISBN : 9780198820611

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Combining theory, comparative politics and international relations, Introduction to Politics, Fourth Edition, provides the most comprehensive introduction to the subject for first year undergraduate students, with the most global perspective. Written by three experts in the field, this book takes a balanced approached to the subject, serving as a strong foundation for further study. Assuming no prior knowledge, the authors use an accessible yet analytical approach which encourages critical analysis and debate, helping students to develop the vital skills they need for future studies and employment. The new edition has been fully updated with additional case studies and examples to help students to understand how key theories and principles apply in the context of real-world events. New to the fourth edition is a chapter on 'Non-Western Approaches', which helps students to bring more diverse perspectives to their study of politics. Furthermore, additional coverage of populism has been included, to reflect current events and developments in discourse. This ensures that Introduction to Politics, Fourth Edition is the most contemporary, relevant and essential guide for students new to the study of politics.

The Politics of Judgment

• Author : Kennan Ferguson
• Publisher : Lexington Books
• Release Date : 2007-02
• Genre : Philosophy
• Pages : 153
• ISBN : 0739120875

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This innovative and theoretically sophisticated book investigates how aesthetic judgment forms the groundwork for understanding political identities. It posits aesthetics as central to conceptions of politics that are based on how people understand the relationship between themselves and larger communities. Ferguson focuses not only on how different theoretical conceptions of political judgment relate to one another, but also on their historical development and potential meaning for contemporary scholarship across the humanities and social sciences. Drawing on recent contributions to philosophy, economics, cultural studies, feminism, psychology, and anthropology, The Politics of Judgment demonstrates how modern political identities depend upon and are formed by aesthetic judgment. Political theorists, social scientists, philosophers and cultural critics will find this book especially useful, though general readers will also be attracted by the author's keen insight into contemporary political questions.

Culture Identity and Politics

• Author : Ernest Gellner
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1987
• Genre : Political Science
• Pages : 189
• ISBN : 0521334381

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Essays exploring the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world.

The Concept of Political Culture

• Author : Stephen Welch
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2016-07-27
• Genre : Political Science
• Pages : 208
• ISBN : 9781349227938

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'...erudite, thought-provoking and well-written.'Archie Brown, Professor of Politics, Oxford University. The return to prominence of the concept of political culture offers an opportunity to re-evaluate its contribution to the social sciences. This study casts a broader than usual net, embracing not only political science (with equal emphasis placed on the concept's use in communist studies), but also sociology and history. On this basis a distinctive theory of political culture, and not merely another typology, is developed. Political culture, instead of being a token in the sterile debate between interest- and culture-based explanation, offers the means of transcending that debate.

Cultural Politics and Political Culture in Postmodern Europe

• Author : J. Peter Burgess
• Publisher : Rodopi
• Release Date : 1997
• Genre : Social Science
• Pages : 448
• ISBN : 9042003170

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The present volume assembles essays from a broad cultural and professional spectrum around the question of European cultural identity. The heterogeneity of the contributors — their differing points of departure and methods — attests to a tension in intellectual communities which today is more intense than ever. Europe's identity crisis is not merely an empirical matter. It reflects a far deeper, and far older,discursive crisis. The mandate of Europe's traditional intellectual institutions to preserve and police their own cultural heritage has proved incapable of evolving in a manner sufficient to account for the mutation in its object: European culture. It is not merely that Europe's identity, like any identity in the flux of history, has changed. Rather, the notion of identity, the very basis of any questions of who we are, where we are going, and the appropriate political forms and social institutions for further existence, all rely on a logic of identity which has, at best, become extremely problematic. It is this problematization which provides the common thread unifying the following essays. Each contributor, in his/her own way and with respect to his/her own research object, confronts the adequacy of the concept of cultural identity. The hidden presuppositions of this concept are indeed remarkable, and the logic of cultural identity prescribes that they remain undisclosed.

Trump s America

• Author : Liam Kennedy
• Publisher : New Perspectives on the American Presidency
• Release Date : 2020-08-31
• Genre : Uncategorized
• Pages : 256
• ISBN : 1474458874

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Explores the cultural and political significance of the election of President Trump Donald J. Trump's presidency has delivered a seismic shock to the American political system, its public sphere, and to our political culture worldwide. Written by leading scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as professionals in the field of political journalism, this collection of essays offers a deeper understanding of Trump and the impact that his rise to power has had both domestically and worldwide. The first section provides varied perspectives on the realignments of political culture in the United States that signify a paradigm shift, a radical disruption of fundamental beliefs and values about the political process and national identity. The second section of the book focuses on US foreign policy and diplomacy, taking stock of how the Trump presidency has disturbed the international system and US primacy within it. The third section of the book addresses the dynamics and consequences of what has come to be called "post-truth" politics, where conviction surpasses facts and the norms of political communication have been profoundly disrupted. Liam Kennedy is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin.

Identity Politics And Women

• Author : Valentine M. Moghadam
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2019-04-09
• Genre : Social Science
• Pages : 458
• ISBN : 9780429723162

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Identity politics refers to discourses and movements organized around questions of religious, ethnic, and national identity. This volume focuses on political cultural movements that are making a bid for state power, for fundamental juridical change, or for cultural hegemony. In particular, the contributors explore the relations of culture, identity, and women, providing vivid illustrations from around the world of the compelling nature of Woman as cultural symbol and Woman as political pawn in male-directed power struggles. The discussions also provide evidence of women as active participants and as active opponents of such movements. Taken together, the chapters provide answers to some pressing questions about these political-cultural movements: What are their causes? Who are the participants and social groups that support them? What are their objectives? Why are they preoccupied with gender and the control of women? The first section of the book offers theoretical, comparative, and historical approaches to the study of identity politics. A second section consists of thirteen case studies spanning Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Hindu countries and communities. In the final section, contributors discuss dilemmas posed by identity politics and the strategies designed in response.

Cultural Pluralism Identity Politics and the Law

• Author : Austin Sarat
• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
• Release Date : 2014-05-14
• Genre : Law
• Pages : 188
• ISBN : 0472023764

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How do moves to recognize ethnic and cultural identity affect the idea of equality before the law?

Cultural Studies Political Theory

• Author : Jodi Dean
• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• Release Date : 2000
• Genre : Political Science
• Pages : 362
• ISBN : 0801485789

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This collection of work at the intersection of cultural studies and contemporary political theory brings together thinkers from both traditions. Challenging the terms that have shaped culture wars since the 1980s, the essays reject the accusations of the right that everything is political, and of the left that politics is everything. They respond with an alternative, with an explanation of processes of politicization and culturalization that asks, "what does it mean for something to be political?"

Transnational Identity Politics and the Environment

• Author : Gabriel Ignatow
• Publisher : Lexington Books
• Release Date : 2007
• Genre : Political Science
• Pages : 137
• ISBN : 0739120158

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This study in global sociology argues that environmental activism today has taken on a hybrid, transnational character in reaction to the 'retreat of the state' and the political activism of transnational migrant communities. The argument is illustrated with in-depth case studies of contemporary environmental social movements in Turkey and Lithuania.

Studies of Identity in the 2008 Presidential Campaign

• Author : Robert E. Denton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2010
• Genre : Political Science
• Pages : 235
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105215496857

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"The trouble with conventional thinking dare I call it PC? is that it stifles new insights. Studies of Identity in the 2008 Presidential Campaign brings a welcome collection of fresh perspectives to a topic burdened by the same-old, same-old conventionality. This volume is incisive and thought-provoking."-Stephen D. Cooper, Marshall University --

Identity Politics Reconsidered

• Author : L. Alcoff
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2006-01-09
• Genre : Social Science
• Pages : 289
• ISBN : 9781403983398

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Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of 'identity' within ethnic, women's, disability, and gay and lesbian studies in order to stimulate discussion about issues that are simultaneously theoretical and practical, ranging from ethics and epistemology to political theory and pedagogical practice. This collection of powerful essays by both well-known and emerging scholars offers original answers to questions concerning the analytical legitimacy of 'identity' and 'experience', and the relationships among cultural autonomy, moral universalism and progressive politics.

Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa 1990 1994

• Author : S. Nombuso Dlamini
• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• Release Date : 2005
• Genre : Social Science
• Pages : 231
• ISBN : 9780802039118

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"Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa" shows how the youth identify variously as fans of jazz or hip-hop who espouse a none-racial national character, as athletes who feel a strong connection to traditional Zulu patriarchy, or in many other social and political subcultures.

Radical Identity Politics

• Author : Torben Bech Dyrberg
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release Date : 2020-07-31
• Genre : Political Science
• Pages : 288
• ISBN : 9781527557499

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This book outlines significant traits of radical leftist identity politics. In this type of discourse, arguments are organized around global friend/enemy schemes in ways that are at odds with the right/left matrix of democracy. This is shown by combining discourse analysis of how leftist critics argue in public debates centred on their reactions to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015 and theoretical discussions on leftist identity politics orbiting around Schmitt, Marcuse and Mouffe. It is argued that the friend/enemy approach sacrifices the egalitarian and libertarian core values of the Left, leading it to adopt positions used to brand the reactionary Right. It also holds that leftist identity politics undermines democracy by moralizing enmity and stigmatizing dissent, and by promoting an elitist and relativist agenda. Against this background, the book looks at the nature of the right/left distinction and its political functions in modern democracy. This is further elaborated in relation to the works of Foucault and Rawls’s analyses of parrhesia (free speech) and public reason, which provide a more fruitful approach to right/left and democracy than those based on enmity. For Foucault and Rawls, a vibrant pluralist democracy relies on the autonomy of politics, which secures a space in which citizens are free and equal, which is crucial for free speech and assembly. They focus on issues related to the autonomy of politics and the freestanding nature of public reason; right/left as lateral political orientation coupled with fairness as political justification and the links between regime form and political community as decisive for democracy.