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Rethinking the Social : Sociology of Crisis Experience in Central and Eastern Europe /
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The book casts a spotlight on Central and Eastern European societies, making their experiences visible and meaningful within the postcolonial discourse. The modernization theory overlooks important aspects of postsocialist transformation. Consequently, sociological knowledge has drifted apart from the social production of knowledge, and sociology has become alarmingly irrelevant to the people it studies. Therefore, the book departs from preconceived notions of "normal" and "modern" to foreground the importance of actual social experience. After all, Central and Eastern Europe is a valuable yet underestimated social laboratory. Thus, the contributors experiment with new theoretical and methodological approaches to bridge the gap between social research and real people. Contributors are: Izabella Bukraba-Rylska, Jacek Burski, Grzegorz Ekiert, Kaja Gadowska, Anna Giza, Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, Michał Kaczmarczyk, Krzysztof T. Konecki, Mirosława Marody, Adam Mrozowicki, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Anne White, Renata Włoch, Tomasz Zarycki, and Marek Zirk-Sadowski. See Less
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1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004708549
Peaks of faith : Protestant mission in revolutionary China /
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This is a pioneering study of the impact of Christianization among the Chinese. Focusing primarily on the minority peoples of Yunnan province, it nonetheless fully mirrors the historical development of the Protestant mission in China. Drawing on many years of observation in the field and upon a comprehensive consultation of official documents relating to Christians on the mountain peaks, the study chronicles how the early foreign missionaries, thanks to their self-sacrifice and the examples they set of religious zeal, cemented the hitherto segregatory and leaderless tribes together, vigorously shaking the desolate mountain folk out of their age-long isolation. It was the trend of the time to identify Christianity as the desirable agent to promote socio-economic change in the undeveloped communities. This is a timely original contribution to the historical study of the Christian missionary enterprise and the pressing problem of freedom of worship that currently exists in China.
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1 online resource (161 pages) : map. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-158) and index. :
9789004319899 :
0924-9389 ; :
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Het Proces Sneevliet 1917 /
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Het artikel 'zegepraal', een jubelkreet over de Russische Februarirevolutie in het dagblad De Indiër in maart 1917 van Henk Sneevliet, voorman van de kleine groep linkse socialisten in Nederlands-Indië, leidde tot het eerste grote openbare politieke proces in de kolonie. De officier van justitie te Semarang achtte Sneevliets artikel opruiend op grond van de 'haatzaaiartikelen'uit het Wetboek van Strafrecht voor Europeanen em daagde Sneevliet voor het gerecht. De conservatieve Hollandse gemeenschap hoopte dat er eindelijk met de socialistische 'opruier'en revolutionair zou worden afgerekend. Het proces in november 1917 duurde vier dagen. Sneevliet voerde zelf zijn verdediging en hield een urenlang betoog tegen het Nederlandse koloniaal bestel. Hij werd schuldig bevonden, maar hiervoor echter niet strafbaar gesteld. Sneevliet werd ontslagen van rechtsvervolging. In december volgde echter, ook door de druk van de reactionaire pers, externering uit Nederlands-Indië vanwege zijn revolutionaire activiteiten. De overvloedig gedocumenteerde verdedigingsrede en het verslag van de procesgang werden door A. Baars en Sneevliet in januari 1918 gepubliceerd in een door henzelf beperkte oplage uitgegeven boek Het proces Sneevliet: De Sociaal-Democratie in Nederlandsch Indië . Deze unieke bron, waarvan slechts enkele bibliotheken een exemplaar bezitten, is in facsimilé herdrukt en door Fritjof Tichelman van een uitgebreide inleiding voorzien.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004643109
The Ideology of Work : Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour /
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In On the Reproduction of Capitalism , Louis Althusser cited an appendix which, it seems, remains lost or was never completed. This appendix was titled 'the Ideology of Work'. This book takes inspiration from this appendix, to think about what is at stake for both Marxism and sociology in analysing work from an Althusserian perspective today. The dominant form of this ideology of work today is theoretical humanism. This book demonstrates how theoretical humanism has undermined the analysis of work and makes the case for a Marxism in sociology with a committed theoretical anti-humanism at the forefront of its endeavour.
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1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004703179
The ecological crisis and the logic of capital /
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The worsening environmental crisis has become a serious threat to mankind. The search for a solution to this crisis must begin by understanding its causes. Taking an eco-socialist perspective, The Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital explores the logic of capitalism as a fundamental cause of today's environmental crisis, in particular the thirst for profit and the capitalist mode of production. By demonstrating the inherent antagonism between capital and ecology, this book argues that proposals to resolve the crisis within the capitalist system are utopian, that proposed remedies relying on scientific progress, alternative energies, low-carbon technologies or the introduction of ecological ethics and new attitudes toward Nature into market mechanisms are doomed to failure without a radical overhaul of the principles that govern capitalism.
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1 online resource. :
9789004356009 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.