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Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

Black Power Music! Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement critically explores the soundtracks of the Black Power Movement as forms of movement music. That is to say much of classic Motown soul and funk music often mirrored and served as mouthpieces for the views and values as well as the aspirations and frustrations of the Black Power Movement. Black Power Music! is also about the intense interconnections between Black popular culture and Black political culture both before and after the Black Power Movement and the ways in which the Black Power Movement in many senses symbolizes the culmination of centuries of African American politics creatively combined with and ingeniously conveyed through African American music. Consequently the term Black Power music can be seen as a code word for African American protest songs and message music between 1965 and 1975. Black Power music is a new concept that captures and conveys the fact that the majority of the messages in Black popular music between 1965 and 1975 seem to have been missed by most people who were not actively involved in or in some significant way associated with the Black Power Movement. | Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

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Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance A Multilevel Analysis

Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance A Multilevel Analysis

Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance examines the social phenomenon of exotic dancing. Presenting a compelling multilevel analysis of dancer interactions organizational practices and institutional forces this book challenges our understanding of sexuality and power. Centering the voices and experiences of exotic dancers this book explores the relationship between exotic dancing and power at the micro-interactional meso-organizational and macro-institutional levels informing a feminist theory of power that seeks out systems of domination in order to challenge and change them. Through direct interviews and observations collected between 1993 and 2021 from 40 different clubs in the United States Deshotels and Forsyth demystify the seemingly contrary findings about exotic dancing and power. They show how and why individual dancers can be simultaneously empowered and exploited beyond individual traits interactions or settings in the nexus of gender and power in exotic dancing. The book will be useful for scholarly readers in the subject areas of sociology cultural studies gender/sexualities studies sex work and organizations theory. Written in a clear accessible manner this book will also appeal to a general audience interested in understanding the complex interactions of gender power feminism and exotic dance. | Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance A Multilevel Analysis

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The Power of the Supreme People's Court Reconceptualizing Judicial Power in Contemporary China

The Power of the Supreme People's Court Reconceptualizing Judicial Power in Contemporary China

This book explores the recent development of the Supreme People’s Court of China the world’s largest highest court. Recognizing that its approach to exercising power in an authoritarian context has presented a challenge to the understanding of judicial power in both democratic and non-democratic legal settings it captures the essence of the Court through its institutional design as well as functional practice. It argues that regardless of the deep-seated political and institutional constraints the Court has demonstrated a highly pragmatic interest in fulfilling its primary functions and prudently expanding judicial power in the context of reform-era China. This notwithstanding it also discusses how the Court’s incompetence and reluctance to challenge the bureaucratism and politicization suggests that the call for an impartial and authoritative judicial power will continue to be jeopardized while the Court operates in the shadow of Party authority and lacks meaningful checks and balances. Drawing on the experience of the Court this book reflects on some deep-rooted misunderstandings of legal development in China providing a source of inspiration for reconceptualizing the internal logic of a distinct category of judicial power. | The Power of the Supreme People's Court Reconceptualizing Judicial Power in Contemporary China

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Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

In the economic debate power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition. This is a consequence of the combination of methodological individualism and the assumption of competition as a natural and everlasting coordinating mechanism operating without any sort of coercion. This methodology however is not adequate to analyze the forms of social coercion that characterize capitalism. Economics and Power criticizes the main theories of power developed in economic literature analyzing ultraliberal contractualism to radical political economics and ultimately suggesting a Marxist conception of power and coercion in capitalism. Palermo’s ontological argument is rooted in the philosophy of ‘critical realism’. This unique volume presents his main finding as being that the essential coercive mechanism of capitalism is competition. Capitalist power is not caused by a lack of competition but by the central role it plays in this mode of production. Following this the chapters reconstruct a Marxian conception of power where it is analyzed as a social relation and argues that perfect competition does in fact exist under the disguise of capitalist power. This book criticizes the construct of power and the underlying ideas surrounding perfect competition. This book is of interest to those who study political economy as well as economic theory and philosophy. | Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

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Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

In recent years the Zimbabwe crisis rendered the country and its citizens to be a typical case of ‘failed states’ the world over. Zimbabwean society was and is still confronted with different challenges which include political economic and social problems. Attempts to overcome these challenges have thrown light on the power that rests within individuals and or groups to change and even revolutionize their localities communities states and ultimately the world at large. Through experience individuals and groups have promoted ideas that have aided in changing mentalities attitudes and behaviors in societies at different levels. This book brings together contributors from various academic disciplines to reflect on and theorize the contours of power including the intrinsic and or extrinsic models of power which pertain to individuals communities and or groups in order to transform society. Reflections are on various groups such as political movements environmental movements religious groups advocacy groups gender groups to mention but a few as they struggle against marginalization discrimination exploitation and other forms of oppression showing their agency or compliance. | Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

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Power in Conservation Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

Power in Conservation Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden—conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people and conservation interventions govern and affect peoples and ecologies. This book argues that being able to think deeply particularly about power improves conservation policy-making and practice. Political ecology is by far the most well-known and well-published approach to thinking about power in conservation. This book analyzes the relatively neglected but robust anthropology of conservation literature on politics and power outside political ecology especially literature rooted in Foucault. It is intended to make four of Foucault’s concepts of power accessible concepts that are most used in the anthropology of conservation: the power of discourses discipline and governmentality subject formation and neoliberal governmentality. The important ethnographic literature that these concepts have stimulated is also examined. Together theory and ethnography underpin our emerging understanding of a new Anthropocene-shaped world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation environmental anthropology and political ecology as well as conservation practitioners and policy-makers. | Power in Conservation Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

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Identity-Based Student Activism Power and Oppression on College Campuses

Identity-Based Student Activism Power and Oppression on College Campuses

Historically and contemporarily student activists have worked to address oppression on college and university campuses. This book explores the experiences of students engaged in identity-based activism today as it relates to racism sexism homophobia transphobia ableism and other forms of oppression. Grounded by a national study on student activism and the authors’ combined 40 years of experience working in higher education Identity-Based Student Activism uses a critical power-conscious lens to unpack the history of identity-based activism relationships between activists and administrators and student activism as labor. This book provides an opportunity for administrators educators faculty and student activists to reflect on their current ideas and behaviors around activism and consider new ways for improving their relationships with each other and ultimately their campus climates. | Identity-Based Student Activism Power and Oppression on College Campuses

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China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

As American leadership over climate change declines China has begun to identify itself as a great power by formulating ambitious climate policies. Based on the premise that great powers have unique responsibilities this book explores how China’s rise to great power status transforms notions of great power responsibility in general and international climate politics in particular. The author looks empirically at the Chinese party-state’s conceptions of state responsibility discusses the influence of those notions on China’s role in international climate politics and considers both how China will act out its climate responsibility in the future and the broader implications of these actions. Alongside the argument that the international norm of climate responsibility is an emerging attribute of great power responsibility Kopra develops a normative framework of great power responsibility to shed new light on the transformations China’s rise will yield and the kind of great power China will prove to be. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations China studies foreign policy studies international organizations international ethics and environmental politics. | China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

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The Power of Phenomenology Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

The Power of Phenomenology Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

The Power of Phenomenology took form when the two authors realized that a single theme has run through the course of their almost half-century-long collaboration like a red thread—namely the power of phenomenological inquiry and understanding in a wide range of contexts. This book demonstrates how they have experienced the power of phenomenology in their therapeutic work with patients especially those struggling with horrific trauma; in their encounters with psychological and philosophical theories; and in their efforts to comprehend destructive ideologies and the collective traumas that give rise to them. The Power of Phenomenology presents the trajectory of this work. Each chapter begins with a contribution written by one or both authors extending the power of phenomenological inquiry to one or more of these diverse contexts. The contributions are followed one or two at a time by a dialogue between the authors illustrating the dialectical process of their long collaboration. The unusual format seeks to bring the phenomenology of their collaborative efforts to life for the reader. The Power of Phenomenology will appeal to psychoanalysts psychoanalytic psychotherapists and scholars of philosophy. | The Power of Phenomenology Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

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Journalism Gender and Power

Journalism Gender and Power

Journalism Gender and Power revisits the key themes explored in the 1998 edited collection News Gender and Power. It takes stock of progress made to date and also breaks ground in advancing critical understandings of how and why gender matters for journalism and current democratic cultures. This new volume develops research insights into issues such as the influence of media ownership and control on sexism women’s employment and macho news cultures the gendering of objectivity and impartiality tensions around the professional identities of journalists news coverage of violence against women the sexualization of women in the news the everyday experience of normative hierarchies and biases in newswork and the gendering of news audience expectations amongst other issues. These issues prompt vital questions for feminist and gender-centred explorations concerned with reimagining journalism in the public interest. Contributors to this volume challenge familiar perspectives and in so doing extend current parameters of dialogue and debate in fresh directions relevant to the increasingly digitalized interactive intersections of journalism with gender and power around the globe. Journalism Gender and Power will inspire readers to rethink conventional assumptions around gender in news reporting—conceptual professional and strategic—with an eye to forging alternative progressive ways forward.

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Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism

Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism

This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan to provide insights into the ways this technology has been both promoted and resisted constituting and being constituted by Japan’s sociocultural landscape. Each chapter pays close attention to a particular discursive site including newspaper editorials public relations campaigns local site fights urban antinuclear activism and post-Fukushima pronuclear and antinuclear articulations. The book also raises the question of democracy and sustainability through the examination of nuclear power discourses. It demonstrates the power of discourse in shaping nuclear power by creating knowledge influencing decisions relationships identity and community. Readers will gain a range of insights from the book: prominent articulations on nuclear power discourse state and corporate strategies for enticing consent for controversial facilities and technologies the power of the media in framing public knowledge the role of social movements and activisms in civic society the power of community and nuclear power as a problematic in representative democracy and sustainability. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in social discourse social movements Japanese society cultural studies environmental communication media analysis energy and sustainability and democracy among others. | Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism

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The Power of Emotions in World Politics

The Power of Emotions in World Politics

This book argues that the link between emotions and discourse provides a new and promising framework to theorize and empirically analyse power relationships in world politics. Examining the ways in which discourse evokes reveals and engages emotions the expert contributors argue that emotions are not irrational forces but have a pattern to them that underpins social relations. However these are also power relations and their articulation as socially constructed ways of feeling and expressing emotions represent a key force in either sustaining or challenging the social order. This volume goes beyond the emotions matter approach to offer specific ways to integrate the consideration of emotion into existing research. It offers a novel integration of emotion discourse and power and shows how emotion discourses establish assert challenge or reinforce power and status difference. It will be particularly useful to university researchers doctoral candidates and advanced students engaged in scholarship on emotions and discourse analysis in International Relations. | The Power of Emotions in World Politics

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Women Media and Power in Indonesia

Women Media and Power in Indonesia

This book demonstrates the crucial link between gender and structures of power in democratic Indonesia and the role of the online news media in regulating this relationship of power. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a theoretical framework and social actor analysis as the methodological approach this book examines the discursive representation of three prominent female Indonesian political figures in the mainstream Indonesian online news media in a period of social-political transition. It presents newfound linguistic evidence in the form of discourse strategies that reflect the women’s dynamic relationship with power. More broadly the critical analysis of the news discourse becomes a way of uncovering and evaluating implicit barriers and opportunities affecting women’s political participation in Indonesia and other Asian political contexts Indonesia’s process of democratisation and the influential role of the online news media in shaping and reflecting political discourse. | Women Media and Power in Indonesia

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Mega-Events City and Power

Mega-Events City and Power

This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced. It adopts Bourdieu's concept of field to explore the interests and disputes involved in the production of sports mega-events across different times and spaces and the role of host cities in these processes. It aims to identify the bases that give these spectacles the power to produce disruptions in the social fabric of the host cities and countries and to enable the production of authoritarian forms of exercising power. By observing the historical constitution of the field of production of sport spectacle as an autonomous field this book explores how sport mega-events create both an arena and a context for radical expressions of authoritarianism of neoliberal planning models. It will be of interest to students scholars and professionals in architecture and urban studies urban planning municipal governance sport and leisure studies and those interested in the relationship between State and capital in the production of urban space. | Mega-Events City and Power

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Power and Inequality Critical Readings for a New Era

Power and Inequality Critical Readings for a New Era

Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to those studying politics and society this new edition of Power and Inequality provides a unique mix of theoretical and empirical pieces such as state and electoral politics that address both classic issues in political sociology and more recent developments such as globalization. With strong integration of race and gender throughout this collection offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives including Marxism feminism critical race theory postmodernism and power structure theory. | Power and Inequality Critical Readings for a New Era

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The Nuclear Power Decisions British Policies 1953-78

The Nuclear Power Decisions British Policies 1953-78

Originally published in 1980. More so than any other energy resource nuclear power has the capacity to provide much of our energy needs but is highly controversial. This book discusses the major British decisions in the civil nuclear field and the way they were made between 1953 and 1978. It spans the period between the decision to construct Calder Hall – claimed as the world’s first nuclear power station – and the Windscale Inquiry – claimed as the world's most thorough study of a nuclear project. For the period up to 1974 this involves a study of the internal processes of British central government. The private issues include the technical selection of nuclear reactors the economic arguments about nuclear power and the political clashes between institutions and individuals. The public issues concern nuclear safety and the environment and the rights and opportunities for individuals and groups to protest about nuclear development. The book demonstrates that British civil nuclear power decision making had many shortcomings and concludes that it was hampered by outdated political and administrative attitudes and machinery and that some of the central issues in the nuclear power debate were misunderstood by the decision makers themselves. | The Nuclear Power Decisions British Policies 1953-78

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The Social Power of Algorithms

The Social Power of Algorithms

The vast circulations of mobile devices sensors and data mean that the social world is now defined by a complex interweaving of human and machine agency. Key to this is the growing power of algorithms – the decision-making parts of code – in our software dense and data rich environments. Algorithms can shape how we are retreated what we know who we connect with and what we encounter and they present us with some important questions about how society operates and how we understand it. This book offers a series of concepts approaches and ideas for understanding the relations between algorithms and power. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on the integration of algorithms into the social world. As such this book directly tackles some of the most important questions facing the social sciences today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Information Communication & Society. | The Social Power of Algorithms

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Power and Its Problems in Carolingian Europe

Power and Its Problems in Carolingian Europe

A key theme in this collection of thirteen essays is the creative tension between the Carolingian dynasty and its aristocratic followers across 250 years. The first section explores the rising dynasty's attempts to consolidate its power through war and rewards. The second section focuses on the exercise of authority through a complex system of governance and representation and the pivotal role played by the courts of Charlemagne and his successors. In the third section we see the Carolingian system undergoing a crisis of legitimacy challenged by civil war royal divorce and aristocratic encroachment on dynastic exclusivity. These essays anatomise the dynamics of power relations in the greatest empire of the early medieval west. | Power and Its Problems in Carolingian Europe

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Communication Yearbook 40

Communication Yearbook 40

Communication Yearbook 40 completes four decades of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. In the final Communication Yearbook volume editor Elisia L. Cohen includes chapters representing international and interdisciplinary scholarship demonstrating the broad global interests of the International Communication Association. The contents include summaries of communication research programs that represent the most innovative work currently. Emphasizing timely disciplinary concerns and enduring theoretical questions this volume will be valuable to scholars throughout the communication discipline and beyond.

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China's Maritime Security Strategy The Evolution of a Growing Sea Power

China's Maritime Security Strategy The Evolution of a Growing Sea Power

This book examines the evolution of China’s maritime security strategy and questions what has made China shift from a constrained to a more assertive strategy. Historically China has not been an active player in maritime security but in recent years Beijing has begun to pursue policies and measures to safeguard its maritime rights and interests in the Indo-Pacific region. This growing influence in the region has become a concern for other countries about what kind of sea power China is developing. This book seeks to address this concern by providing an overview of the development of China’s maritime security strategy from the era of Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping. It suggests that while the involvement of maritime actors and the development of naval capability have provided the depth to the strategy the national strategic guidelines from each generation of Chinese leadership have determined the overall direction of the maritime security strategy. After 40 years of development China has established a set of priorities for its maritime agenda: territorial integrity is at the top followed by development and then regional and international maritime cooperation. These findings help us to understand China’s multidimensional maritime power as being both assertive and cooperative. This book will be of much interest to students of naval strategy maritime security Chinese politics and International Relations. | China's Maritime Security Strategy The Evolution of a Growing Sea Power

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Language Mind and Power Why We Need Linguistic Equality

Language Mind and Power Why We Need Linguistic Equality

Language is a natural resource: Power and vulnerability are associated with access to language just as to food and water. In this new book a linguist and philosopher elucidate why language is so powerful illuminate its very real social and political implications and make the case for linguistic equality—equality among languages and equality in access to/knowledge of language and its use—as a human right and tool to prevent violence and oppression. Students and instructors will find this accessible interdisciplinary text invaluable for courses that explore how language reflects power structures in linguistics philosophy/ethics and cognitive science/psychology. | Language Mind and Power Why We Need Linguistic Equality

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