Author: Richard A. Matthew
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739103500
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Dichotomy of Power studies the future of the nation-state as the world's basic political organization and the foundation of modern international relations. Richard A. Matthew argues that this Hegelian construct--once championed as the rational and preferred basis for global order--developed through a series of dichotomies: the cut and thrust of realism mediated by idealism; coercive power politics balanced by a constitutive mode of power; and a collaborative search for a just society. The book analyzes the conceptualization of the nation-state in the Western tradition of political thought, from the classical bifurcation of politics to the postmodern debate about the nation-state as the ideal mechanism for organizing power in a new global age.
Dichotomy of Power
Author: Richard A. Matthew
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739103500
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Dichotomy of Power studies the future of the nation-state as the world's basic political organization and the foundation of modern international relations. Richard A. Matthew argues that this Hegelian construct--once championed as the rational and preferred basis for global order--developed through a series of dichotomies: the cut and thrust of realism mediated by idealism; coercive power politics balanced by a constitutive mode of power; and a collaborative search for a just society. The book analyzes the conceptualization of the nation-state in the Western tradition of political thought, from the classical bifurcation of politics to the postmodern debate about the nation-state as the ideal mechanism for organizing power in a new global age.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739103500
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Dichotomy of Power studies the future of the nation-state as the world's basic political organization and the foundation of modern international relations. Richard A. Matthew argues that this Hegelian construct--once championed as the rational and preferred basis for global order--developed through a series of dichotomies: the cut and thrust of realism mediated by idealism; coercive power politics balanced by a constitutive mode of power; and a collaborative search for a just society. The book analyzes the conceptualization of the nation-state in the Western tradition of political thought, from the classical bifurcation of politics to the postmodern debate about the nation-state as the ideal mechanism for organizing power in a new global age.
The Politics of Weight
Author: Amelia Greta Morris
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030136701
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book speaks to the politics of weight through an interrogation of dieting, power and the body. In feminist theory, there is no greater site of contestation than that of the body, and Morris explores how these debates often become centred upon a dichotomy between oppression and liberation. Whilst there is a vast diversity of scholarship that challenges this binary including post-colonial, post-structuralist and Marxist feminist work, the dichotomy nevertheless endures. The Politics of Weight argues that the ‘feminine’ body is not simply a site of oppression or liberation by drawing upon the intersections that exist between Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and post-structuralist feminist work on the body. This provides a unique lens for exploring weight. Through in-depth analysis of interviews with women who seemingly sit on either side of the ‘oppression’ and ‘liberation’ debate, members of dieting clubs and fat activists, the book highlights the complexities that surround women’s relationship to weight and the body. Likewise it draws upon the wealth of black feminist scholarship to explore the discourses surrounding Oprah Winfrey’s dieting ‘journey,’ seeking to demonstrate how discipline and race interact and how this plays out in dieting and weight. The Politics of Weight will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, sociology, geography and political science.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030136701
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book speaks to the politics of weight through an interrogation of dieting, power and the body. In feminist theory, there is no greater site of contestation than that of the body, and Morris explores how these debates often become centred upon a dichotomy between oppression and liberation. Whilst there is a vast diversity of scholarship that challenges this binary including post-colonial, post-structuralist and Marxist feminist work, the dichotomy nevertheless endures. The Politics of Weight argues that the ‘feminine’ body is not simply a site of oppression or liberation by drawing upon the intersections that exist between Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and post-structuralist feminist work on the body. This provides a unique lens for exploring weight. Through in-depth analysis of interviews with women who seemingly sit on either side of the ‘oppression’ and ‘liberation’ debate, members of dieting clubs and fat activists, the book highlights the complexities that surround women’s relationship to weight and the body. Likewise it draws upon the wealth of black feminist scholarship to explore the discourses surrounding Oprah Winfrey’s dieting ‘journey,’ seeking to demonstrate how discipline and race interact and how this plays out in dieting and weight. The Politics of Weight will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, sociology, geography and political science.
Challenging the Dichotomy
Author: Les Field
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816531307
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Challenging the Dichotomy explores how dichotomies regarding heritage dominate the discussions of ethics, practices, and institutions. Contributing authors underscore the challenge to the old paradigms from multiple forces. The case studies and discourses, both ethnographic and archaeological, arise from a wide variety of regional contexts and cultures.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816531307
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Challenging the Dichotomy explores how dichotomies regarding heritage dominate the discussions of ethics, practices, and institutions. Contributing authors underscore the challenge to the old paradigms from multiple forces. The case studies and discourses, both ethnographic and archaeological, arise from a wide variety of regional contexts and cultures.
The Darkside Dichotomy
Author: Aaron Nash
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781086774269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Aaron Nash has seen more than his fair share of hardships. Since a near-death experience upended his life, he's figured out the formula for turning agony into success, using pain as a catalyst to overcome what he once thought was insurmountable. In Darkside Dichotomy, Aaron pulls examples from his life, to teach you how to take your setbacks and convert them into jet fuel. As the founder and owner of Platinum Fitness, he has helped thousands of clients lose hundreds of thousands of pounds, by showing them how changing their mindset can change their entire lives. If you're struggling with negative emotions and looking for the motivation to move beyond your limitations, this book will show you step-by-step how to break through your personal barriers and live the life of your dreams... All by tapping into the negative energy we so often deny ourselves and eliminating shame.Without darkness, we could not see the light. The Darkside Dichotomy is not your father's motivational book. It was written to fight the battles we face in the Millennium. It is not a polished update of irrelevant age-old theories; it is an immersion into the night of your soul.Step into the darkness..
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781086774269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Aaron Nash has seen more than his fair share of hardships. Since a near-death experience upended his life, he's figured out the formula for turning agony into success, using pain as a catalyst to overcome what he once thought was insurmountable. In Darkside Dichotomy, Aaron pulls examples from his life, to teach you how to take your setbacks and convert them into jet fuel. As the founder and owner of Platinum Fitness, he has helped thousands of clients lose hundreds of thousands of pounds, by showing them how changing their mindset can change their entire lives. If you're struggling with negative emotions and looking for the motivation to move beyond your limitations, this book will show you step-by-step how to break through your personal barriers and live the life of your dreams... All by tapping into the negative energy we so often deny ourselves and eliminating shame.Without darkness, we could not see the light. The Darkside Dichotomy is not your father's motivational book. It was written to fight the battles we face in the Millennium. It is not a polished update of irrelevant age-old theories; it is an immersion into the night of your soul.Step into the darkness..
The Dichotomy of Leadership
Author: Jocko Willink
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250354951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Extreme Ownership comes a revolutionary approach to help leaders recognize and attain the leadership balance crucial to victory. More than three million readers of Extreme Ownership learned to apply combat-proven leadership lessons from authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. Now, in the new edition of the sequel, Willink and Babin dive deeper into the most challenging aspect of leading people: The Dichotomy of Leadership. This most difficult—and essential— element of leadership requires finding the balance between the forces that pull at every leader in opposite directions. Humbling lessons learned in combat and in teaching leadership to the next generation of SEAL leaders, highlighted for the authors with crystal clarity what works and what doesn’t. As leadership consultants to over 1600 companies and organizations across the U.S. and multiple countries, they have worked with thousands of leaders across the full spectrum of industries in the business world. Through dynamic examples from their combat and training experiences in the SEAL Teams and vignettes from the business arena, Willink and Babin demonstrate how each leadership concept applies on the battlefield, in business, and in life. With a new Foreword and Q&A section, this revised edition of Dichotomy provides the crucial insight and awareness necessary for leaders to understand when to lead and when to follow, when to focus and when to detach, when to tighten the reins and when to let the team run, when to aggressively maneuver and when to be prudent. In The Dichotomy of Leadership, the authors deliver a book that rivals Extreme Ownership with life-changing guidance that should be essential reading for every leader and every team for generations. Understanding how to maintain balance enables leaders to most effectively lead, accomplish their mission, and achieve the ultimate goal of every team: Victory.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250354951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Extreme Ownership comes a revolutionary approach to help leaders recognize and attain the leadership balance crucial to victory. More than three million readers of Extreme Ownership learned to apply combat-proven leadership lessons from authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. Now, in the new edition of the sequel, Willink and Babin dive deeper into the most challenging aspect of leading people: The Dichotomy of Leadership. This most difficult—and essential— element of leadership requires finding the balance between the forces that pull at every leader in opposite directions. Humbling lessons learned in combat and in teaching leadership to the next generation of SEAL leaders, highlighted for the authors with crystal clarity what works and what doesn’t. As leadership consultants to over 1600 companies and organizations across the U.S. and multiple countries, they have worked with thousands of leaders across the full spectrum of industries in the business world. Through dynamic examples from their combat and training experiences in the SEAL Teams and vignettes from the business arena, Willink and Babin demonstrate how each leadership concept applies on the battlefield, in business, and in life. With a new Foreword and Q&A section, this revised edition of Dichotomy provides the crucial insight and awareness necessary for leaders to understand when to lead and when to follow, when to focus and when to detach, when to tighten the reins and when to let the team run, when to aggressively maneuver and when to be prudent. In The Dichotomy of Leadership, the authors deliver a book that rivals Extreme Ownership with life-changing guidance that should be essential reading for every leader and every team for generations. Understanding how to maintain balance enables leaders to most effectively lead, accomplish their mission, and achieve the ultimate goal of every team: Victory.
If...Then
Author: Taina Bucher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190493046
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. As such, we live algorithmic lives. Life, however, is not blindly controlled or determined by algorithms. Nor are we simply victims of an ever-expanding artificial intelligence. Rather than looking at how technologies shape or are shaped by political institutions, this book is concerned with the ways in which informational infrastructure may be considered political in its capacity to shape social and cultural life. It looks specifically at the conditions of algorithmic life -- how algorithms work, both materially and discursively, to create the conditions for sociality and connectivity. The book argues that the most important aspect of algorithms is not what they are in terms of their specific technical details but rather how they become part of social practices and how different people enlist them as powerful brokers of information, communication and society. If we truly want to engage with the promises of automation and predictive analytics entailed by the promises of "big data", we also need to understand the contours of algorithmic life that condition such practices. Setting out to explore both the specific uses of algorithms and the cultural forms they generate, this book offers a novel understanding of the power and politics of algorithmic life as grounded in case studies that explore the material-discursive dimensions of software.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190493046
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. As such, we live algorithmic lives. Life, however, is not blindly controlled or determined by algorithms. Nor are we simply victims of an ever-expanding artificial intelligence. Rather than looking at how technologies shape or are shaped by political institutions, this book is concerned with the ways in which informational infrastructure may be considered political in its capacity to shape social and cultural life. It looks specifically at the conditions of algorithmic life -- how algorithms work, both materially and discursively, to create the conditions for sociality and connectivity. The book argues that the most important aspect of algorithms is not what they are in terms of their specific technical details but rather how they become part of social practices and how different people enlist them as powerful brokers of information, communication and society. If we truly want to engage with the promises of automation and predictive analytics entailed by the promises of "big data", we also need to understand the contours of algorithmic life that condition such practices. Setting out to explore both the specific uses of algorithms and the cultural forms they generate, this book offers a novel understanding of the power and politics of algorithmic life as grounded in case studies that explore the material-discursive dimensions of software.
In Search of Sunjata
Author: Ralph A. Austen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253334527
Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
These essays examine Sunjata from a variety of perspectives.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253334527
Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
These essays examine Sunjata from a variety of perspectives.
Seeing Power
Author: Nato Thompson
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612190448
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In our chaotic world of co-opted imagery, does art still have power? A fog of images and information permeates the world nowadays: from advertising, television, radio, and film to the glut produced by the new economy and the rise of social media . . . where even our friends suddenly seem to be selling us the ultimate product: themselves. Here, Nato Thompson—one of the country’s most celebrated young curators and critics—investigates what this deluge means for those dedicated to socially engaged art and activism. How can anyone find a voice and make change in a world flooded with such pseudo-art? How are we supposed to discern what’s true in the product emanating from the ceaseless machine of consumer capitalism, a machine that appropriates from art history, and now from the methods of grassroots political organizing and even social networking? Thompson’s invigorating answers to those questions highlights the work of some of the most innovative and interesting artists and activists working today, as well as institutions that empower their communities to see power and reimagine it. From cooperative housing to anarchist infoshops to alternative art venues, Seeing Power reveals ways that art today can and does inspire innovation and dramatic transformation . . . perhaps as never before.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612190448
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In our chaotic world of co-opted imagery, does art still have power? A fog of images and information permeates the world nowadays: from advertising, television, radio, and film to the glut produced by the new economy and the rise of social media . . . where even our friends suddenly seem to be selling us the ultimate product: themselves. Here, Nato Thompson—one of the country’s most celebrated young curators and critics—investigates what this deluge means for those dedicated to socially engaged art and activism. How can anyone find a voice and make change in a world flooded with such pseudo-art? How are we supposed to discern what’s true in the product emanating from the ceaseless machine of consumer capitalism, a machine that appropriates from art history, and now from the methods of grassroots political organizing and even social networking? Thompson’s invigorating answers to those questions highlights the work of some of the most innovative and interesting artists and activists working today, as well as institutions that empower their communities to see power and reimagine it. From cooperative housing to anarchist infoshops to alternative art venues, Seeing Power reveals ways that art today can and does inspire innovation and dramatic transformation . . . perhaps as never before.
Dichotomy of Self
Author: Robertson Cal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988624801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
At every moment we choose which part of our self to nurture: Should it be the Sexual self or the Spiritual self? When we satisfy our sexual self, do we dishonor our Spirit? When we nourish a life that is guided by our Spirit, does our desire for sexual connection simply evaporate? How do we reconcile a life that honors one of these powerful forces and ignores the other? Must the sexual and spiritual self be constantly at war? Can they even co-exist? Dichotomy of Self perfectly acknowledges the existence of the two halves of our nature: our carnal self that demands earthly approval and physical satisfaction through the pleasures of the flesh; and the spiritual self-the essence of who we really are-that seeks a connection with a higher power. Dichotomy of Self, attempts to liberate sexuality from the bedrooms of Saturday night, and removes spirituality from the breathless, sunlit churches of Sunday morning. It places these seemingly separate, powerful forces on center stage and spotlights their every aspect. There are stories, poems, photo essays, and personal experiences that reflect many different aspects of "Dichotomy of Self" Overall; it is an intense yearning-for both sexual expression and for spiritual intimacy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988624801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
At every moment we choose which part of our self to nurture: Should it be the Sexual self or the Spiritual self? When we satisfy our sexual self, do we dishonor our Spirit? When we nourish a life that is guided by our Spirit, does our desire for sexual connection simply evaporate? How do we reconcile a life that honors one of these powerful forces and ignores the other? Must the sexual and spiritual self be constantly at war? Can they even co-exist? Dichotomy of Self perfectly acknowledges the existence of the two halves of our nature: our carnal self that demands earthly approval and physical satisfaction through the pleasures of the flesh; and the spiritual self-the essence of who we really are-that seeks a connection with a higher power. Dichotomy of Self, attempts to liberate sexuality from the bedrooms of Saturday night, and removes spirituality from the breathless, sunlit churches of Sunday morning. It places these seemingly separate, powerful forces on center stage and spotlights their every aspect. There are stories, poems, photo essays, and personal experiences that reflect many different aspects of "Dichotomy of Self" Overall; it is an intense yearning-for both sexual expression and for spiritual intimacy.
Power and Authority in Internet Governance
Author: Blayne Haggart
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000361624
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: Is the state "back" in internet regulation? If so, what forms are state involvement taking, and with what consequences for the future? The volume includes case studies from across the world and addresses a wide range of issues regarding internet infrastructure, data and content. The book pushes the debate beyond a simplistic dichotomy between liberalism and authoritarianism in order to consider also greater state involvement based on values of democracy and human rights. Seeing internet governance as a complex arena where power is contested among diverse non-state and state actors across local, national, regional and global scales, the book offers a critical and nuanced discussion of how the internet is governed – and how it should be governed. Power and Authority in Internet Governance provides an important resource for researchers across international relations, global governance, science and technology studies and law as well as policymakers and analysts concerned with regulating the global internet.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000361624
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: Is the state "back" in internet regulation? If so, what forms are state involvement taking, and with what consequences for the future? The volume includes case studies from across the world and addresses a wide range of issues regarding internet infrastructure, data and content. The book pushes the debate beyond a simplistic dichotomy between liberalism and authoritarianism in order to consider also greater state involvement based on values of democracy and human rights. Seeing internet governance as a complex arena where power is contested among diverse non-state and state actors across local, national, regional and global scales, the book offers a critical and nuanced discussion of how the internet is governed – and how it should be governed. Power and Authority in Internet Governance provides an important resource for researchers across international relations, global governance, science and technology studies and law as well as policymakers and analysts concerned with regulating the global internet.