Tag: New Books in Political Science
Madhuri Karak , March 9th, 2018
When the army brutally dispersed Red Shirts protestors in Bangkok’s busy commercial district in May 2010, motorcycle taxi drivers emerged as a key force, capable of playing cat-and-mouse…
Nadirah Mansour , July 16th, 2017
The term ‘sectarianism’ has dominated much of the discourse on the Middle East and dictates that much of the unrest in the region is due to religious and…
Heath Brown , June 12th, 2017
Jessie Daniels and Arlene Stein have written Going Public: A Guide for Social Scientists (University of Chicago Press, 2017). How can political scientists and other social scientists speak…
Ian Cook , March 2nd, 2017
Does patronage always imply a corruption of democratic political processes? Across sixteen essays by historians, political scientists and anthropologists Patronage as Politics in South Asia (Cambridge… Visit New…
Stephen Pimpare , October 12th, 2016
How do new policies move from one city or country to another, and is there something distinct about how those transfers work in our perpetually accelerating and ever-more…
Amanda Jeanne Swaine , September 13th, 2016
Jessica Greenberg’s After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment (Stanford University Press, 2014) explores a dual tension at work in Serbia in the early 2000s….
Dave O'Brien , September 9th, 2016
What can social theory offer to visions of an alternative society? In his new book, Social Theory for Alternative Societies (Palgrave, 2016), Dr Matt Dawson, a Lecturer in…
Ian Cook , May 19th, 2016
What role does Bangalore’s private news culture play in shaping the southern Indian metropolis’ ongoing urban transformation? Sahana Udupa‘s new book Making News in Global India: Med… Visit…
Nick Cheesman , April 19th, 2016
Labour consciousness is not just class-based; it also emerges out of cultural identities, as Tran Ngoc Angie argues powerfully in Ties that Bind: Cultural Identity, Class, and Law…
Carrie Figdor , February 22nd, 2016
The social sciences are about social entities – things like corporations and traffic jams, mobs and money, parents and war criminals. What is a social entity? What makes…
Alejandra Bronfman , January 5th, 2016
This marvelous ethnography traces one of the surprising outcomes of shifting neoliberal regimes in Barbados. As women find themselves leading entrepreneurial lives, they also find themselves engaging ……