Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr., dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas, and facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown--as both musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenon--and of its intrinsic relationship to the politics and cu...(展开全部)

In "The Cultural Politics of the Emotions," Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the emotionality of texts." She offers analyses of the role of emotions in debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, and reconciliation and reparation, and reflects on the role of emotions in feminist and queer politics. Of interest to readers in gender studies and cul...(展开全部)

In "The Cultural Politics of the Emotions," Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the emotionality of texts." She offers analyses of the role of emotions in debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, and reconciliation and reparation, and reflects on the role of emotions in feminist and queer politics. Of interest to readers in gender studies and cul...(展开全部)

Shih-Diing Liu is Professor of Communication at the University of Macau. He completed his PhD at the University of Westminster. His research has appeared in journals including Dushu (Beijing), Positions, and New Left Review. Wei Shi is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Macau. She completed her PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her articles...(展开全部)

迈克尔·欧克肖特(Michael Oakeshott，1901—1990)，英国哲学家，政治思想家，20世纪最重要的保守主义知识分子。其思想融英国观念论与休谟的怀疑论于一炉，对伯克等人所建立的英国传统保守主义思想从哲学上做了系统阐述，他对于知识论、政治哲学、历史哲学、宗教哲学和教育哲学都有着深湛的研究和阐发。在英美学术界享有极高声誉，被誉为“20世纪少有的杰出政治哲学家”、“这个世纪最有原创性的学院政治哲学家”、“从密尔或甚至伯克以来盎格鲁-撒克逊传统最伟大的政治哲学家”。 本文集收入了欧克肖特大部分作品，其中包括在他生前发表的著作——《政治中的理性主义》(节选本)(1962)、“论人类行为》(1975)、《论历史及其他论文》(1983)和《人文知识的声音：迈克尔·欧克肖特论教育》(1989)，也包括在他去世后，由别人给他整理出版的著作《宗教、政治与...(展开全部)

This was Stern's dissertation which focused on three major figures in the rise of illiberalism, Paul de Lagarde, Julius Langbehn, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck.

Review “Here at last is a comprehensive, thoroughly absorbing reader on contemporary culinary tastes and techniques. No student of food, globalization, or political economy can afford to overlook this valuable collection.” Stanley Brandes, University of California, Berkeley “A fascinating collection of essays that ranges from everyday food consumption to the global politics of ...(展开全部)

美国人类学家、罗格斯大学副教授。是中国对外开放后最早进入中国对苗族进行研究的外国学者。

Louisa Schein’s study of cultural production in post-Mao China begins and ends with the Miao, one of China's 56 officially designated minority nationalities. As she points out in her introduction, however, “this book is about China as much as it is about the Miao” (p. 2). Indeed, this book is very much about the complementary and indispensable relation that each bears to the ot...(展开全部)

Adeeb Khalid offers the first extended examination of cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule. With the Russian conquest in the 1860s and 1870s the region came into contact with modernity. The Jadids, influential Muslim intellectuals, sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture by adapting it to the modern state. Through education, literacy, use of the press...(展开全部)