List 4 of books from editorial Ibidem

The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South

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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017

This book contributes to the debates on the production and eradication of poverty in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been addressed by popular movements and the governments of various states across the globe....

The Sarcophagus of Identity

Tribalism, Nationalism, and the Transcendence of the Self

by James Skelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

Given the increasing centrality of identity to contemporary politics, James Skelly's book provides a critical and useful analysis of the dominant and problematic conceptual bases for self and identity. Inspired in part by his lawsuit against the U.S. Secretary of Defense while serving as an active...

Dealing with the Yugoslav Past

Exhibition Reflections in the Successor States

by Alina Zubkovych
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

This book analyzes the representation of the socialist past in the national history museums of the former Yugoslavia. Through travels to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Macedonia, the study elucidates the process of constructing the national narratives that maintain and legitimize...

Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right [four-volume set]

A Guide to Archives

by Archie Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

This truly unique collection is the essential guide to archival research on conservatism, the right wing, and the far right, offering a detailed overview of primary sources in all media. It details documents, film, video, sound recordings, microfilm and microfiche, cartoons, sheet music, newspaper...

A European Crisis: Perspectives on Refugees, Solidarity, and Europe

by Nevena Nancheva, Timofey Agarin, Anja Pećnik
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018

This is a book about the crisis of the European integration project as seen from the vantage point of people’s movements across and to the European continent. But why should the issue of refugees or of migration have anything to do with the dynamics of the integration or disintegration of the European...

Socio-Economic Foundations of the Russian Post-Soviet Regime

The Resource-Based Economy and Estate-Based Social Structure of Contemporary Russia

by Simon Kordonsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

Simon Kordonsky divides the social structure of contemporary Russia into distinct estates or social groups and describes each organization's unique resource-based political and economic nature. As he guides readers through Russia's peculiar service and support estate system, Kordonsky reveals how...

The Euromaidan’s Effect on Civil Society

Why and How Ukrainian Social Capital Increased after the Revolution of Dignity

by Sophie Falsini
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

Sophie Falsini presents a fascinating analysis of the current state and future prospects of Ukrainian civil society in light of the 2013–2014 events. Since then, the country has been shaken by both sociopolitical disorders and a deep humanitarian emergency, also exacerbated by the crisis of internally...

Joining a Prestigious Club

Cooperation with Europarties and Its Impact on Party Development in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine 2004–2015

by Maria Shagina, Andreas Umland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

Brussels’s idea of a “wider Europe” implies that Europeanisation is not limited to EU member states. The EU can, so it claims, also exert impact beyond its borders. One of the channels of external EU influence is cooperation between Europarties and parties outside the Union. Through mutual visits...

Wandering Workers

Mores, Behavior, Way of Life, and Political Status of Domestic Russian Labor Migrants

by Juri Plusnin, Yana Zausaeva, Natalia Zhidkevich
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015

This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia—the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia. Although otkhodnichestvo is a mass phenomenon, it is not reflected...

Ethnic Entrepreneurs Unmasked

Political Institutions and Ethnic Conflicts in Contemporary Bulgaria

by Petar Cholakov
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018

Based on an institutional approach to ethnic conflict, Petar Cholakov highlights the idiosyncrasies of, and the challenges to, interethnic relations in Bulgaria. He traces the emergence of the currently implemented Bulgarian ethnic model in its interconnection with the party system, and especially...

Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

2017/1: A New Land: Rediscovering Agency in Belarusian History, Politics, and Society

by Andreas Umland, Felix Ackermann
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

This special issue provides a forum for discussion of what Belarusian Studies are today and which new approaches and questions are needed to revitalize the field in the regional and international academic arena. The major aim of the issue is to go beyond the narratives of dictatorship and authoritarianism...

Latvia—a Work in Progress?

100 Years of State- and Nation-Building

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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

A quarter century after the formation of the Popular Front and a decade since joining the EU, processes of state and nation building in Latvia are still ongoing. Such issues as citizenship, language policy, minority rights, democratic legitimacy, economic stability, and security all remain objects...

Democracy, Plan, and Market

Yakov Kronrod's Political Economy of Socialism

by David Mandel
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

This is the first book in English to present a succinct overview of the influential work of the Russian economist Yakov Abramovich Kronrod (1912–1984) on the political economy of socialism. Kronrod headed the theoretical section of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of the USSR in the 1970s...

Di chi tiene la penna: immagini di scrittori e scrittura nel romanzo italiano dal 1911 al 1942 [Italian-language Edition]

Letture da Annie Vivanti, Luigi Pirandello, Jolanda, Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Achille Campanile

by Simona Bianconi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

Simona Bianconi explores the creative process of writing, its communicative aspects and the traces of the writer himself in his creations, as well as the effect writing has on the personality of the author.Through the analysis of texts by six outstanding protagonists of the Italian novel in the first...

Ibidem: 334 books