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Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from “less respectable” segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region allows Patricia Joan Saunders to read them against the grain and consider whether and how their “pulp” preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality and national politics are constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from within the Caribbean.

Consumers --- Consumption (Economics) --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Caribbean Area. --- Caribbean Area --- Civilization. --- critical inquiry, shopping, buyer, consumption, Caribbean studies, Caribbean, Caribbean popular culture, pop culture, sistah lit, middle-class, pulp, contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, television, race, gender, class, sexuality, national politics, perform, Global Marketplace, Epistemology, Self-Fashioning, Jamaican Pop Culture, Caribbean Women, Contemporary Caribbean Art, Cultural Insurgency.

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For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, much scholarly attention has been paid to state actions and the Uyghur's efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. This has left the other half of the puzzle-the motivations and ambitions of Han settlers themselves-sorely understudied. With Oil and Water, anthropologist Tom Cliff offers the first ethnographic study of Han in Xinjiang, using in-depth vignettes, oral histories, and more than fifty original photographs to explore how and why they became the people they are now. By shifting focus to the lived experience of ordinary Han settlers, Oil and Water provides an entirely new perspective on Chinese nation building in the twenty-first century and demonstrates the vital role that Xinjiang Han play in national politics-not simply as Beijing's pawns, but as individuals pursuing their own survival and dreams on the frontier.

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The history of capitalism is not to be explained in mere economic terms. David Harris Sacks here demonstrates that the modern Western economy was ushered in by  broad processes of social, political, and cultural change. His study of Bristol as it opened it gate to national politics and the Atlantic economy reveals capitalism to be not just a species of economic order but a distinct form of life, governed by its own ethical norms and cultural practices. Availing himself of the methods of "thick description," socio-economic analysis, and political theory, Sacks examines the dynamics by which early modern Bristol moved from a medieval commercial economy to an early capitalist one. Throughout the period, the life of the city depended heavily on the successes of its great overseas merchants. But their quest for a monopoly of trade with the outside world, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Levant, came into conflict with the concerns of Bristol's artisans and retail shopkeepers. The battles of the two factions conditioned social and cultural developments in Bristol for two centuries. Locally, the conflict set the terms for developing conceptions of justice and authority. On a larger scale, it drew the community firmly into the great affairs of the realm and the wider world of expanding markets beyond.

Capitalism --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- History. --- History --- Bristol (England) --- Economic conditions. --- Commerce --- Market economy --- Bristol, Eng. --- Corporation of the City of Bristol (England) --- Bristol (Avon) --- City of Bristol (England) --- City and County of Bristol (England) --- City & County of Bristol (England) --- Bristol (England : Unitary authority) --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- artisans. --- atlantic economy. --- atlantic seaboard. --- authority. --- bristol. --- capitalism. --- city life. --- cultural change. --- cultural practices. --- early capitalist economy. --- economic conditions. --- economic history. --- economics. --- english history. --- ethical norms. --- ethics. --- history of capitalism. --- justice. --- levant. --- medieval commercial economy. --- merchandise. --- merchants. --- modern western economy. --- monopoly. --- national politics. --- overseas merchants. --- pilgrimage. --- political change. --- political theory. --- retail shopkeepers. --- social change. --- thick description. --- urban life.

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Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where most Americans live. Drawing on a wide variety of data sources and case studies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of electoral politics in America's municipalities. Arguing that current explanations of voting behavior are ill suited for most local contests, Eric Oliver puts forward a new theory that highlights the crucial differences between local, state, and national democracies. Being small in size, limited in power, and largely unbiased in distributing their resources, local governments are "managerial democracies" with a distinct style of electoral politics. Instead of hinging on the partisanship, ideology, and group appeals that define national and state elections, local elections are based on the custodial performance of civic-oriented leaders and on their personal connections to voters with similarly deep community ties. Explaining not only the dynamics of local elections, Oliver's findings also upend many long-held assumptions about community power and local governance, including the importance of voter turnout and the possibilities for grassroots political change.

Democracy --- Local elections --- County elections --- Elections, County --- Elections, Local --- Elections, Municipal --- Municipal elections --- Election law --- Elections --- Law and legislation --- #SBIB:324H42 --- Politieke structuren: verkiezingen --- Ha, Shang E. --- Callen, Zachary. --- American 1 : --- General & Multiperiod. --- America. --- American government. --- American municipalities. --- American politics. --- bias. --- city council members. --- classical democratic theory. --- constitutive power. --- custodial performance. --- election results. --- electoral politics. --- grassroots politics. --- homevoters. --- incumbent. --- intermunicipal political exclusion. --- local community. --- local democracy. --- local elections. --- local governance. --- local government. --- local politicians. --- local politics. --- managerial democracy. --- municipal government. --- municipal governments. --- municipalities. --- national elections. --- national politics. --- political candidates. --- political dynamics. --- political engagement. --- political participation. --- population size. --- resource distribution. --- state elections. --- voter choice. --- voter turnout. --- voting behavior.

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We Are Worth Fighting For' is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university's Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university's appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of "conscious" hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos. At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. Co-founded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the student mobilization at Howard during the spring of 1989 and thereafter. 'We Are Worth Fighting For' explores how black student activists-young men and women- helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics. This history adds to the literature on Black campus activism, Black Power studies, and the emerging histories of African American life in the 1980s.

African American universities and colleges --- African American college students --- African American student movements --- History --- Political activity --- Howard University. --- Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. --- Howard University --- Students --- Washington (D.C.) --- Administration Building. --- American national politics. --- Black Power. --- Black campus activism. --- Black nationalist ethos. --- Black political struggle. --- Black radicalism. --- Black youth movements. --- Charter Day Convocation. --- James Cheek. --- Jesse Jackson. --- Lee Atwater. --- Ras Baraka. --- anti-apartheid movement. --- campus politics. --- cultural programs. --- direct action. --- hip hop. --- historically Black colleges and universities. --- nationalist philosophy. --- on-campus struggles. --- philosophy of struggle. --- presidential campaigns. --- student activism.