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Rule and resistance can no longer be understood in national contexts only. They both have transnationalised over the last decades. The scholarly discourse, however, still lags behind these developments. While International Relations only sees institutional “governance”, social movement studies only see instances of resistance. Both, however, lack the necessary vocabulary to describe the dynamic interplay between systems of rule and resistance. While we are governed by transnational structures of rule, a systematic analysis of how this operates and how it can be resisted remains to be developed. This book develops an understanding of these power relations through rich empirical case studies of different forms of rule-resistance relationships. Some resistant groups demand reforms of particular policies and institutions. Others attack institutions head-on. Yet other actors attempt to escape the rules they reject. Which forms of resistance can we expect under different kinds of rule? How can we understand transnational rule in the first place? The book gives new inspiring answers to these difficult questions.

Nation-state and globalization. --- Globalization and the nation-state --- Globalization --- Protest --- Social Movements' Resistance

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At the turn of the twenty-first century, globalization - both the process and the idea - bestrode the world. Widely acclaimed by political and economic pundits as the most important phenomenon of our time, it took the world by storm. Two decades later, it has come under sustained attack by the re-invigorated forces of the extreme right and radical left. Does globalization still matter in our unsettled world? Responding in the affirmative, this study develops and applies a new framework of an 'engaged theory of globalization' to analyze some of today's most pressing global challenges: the rise of national populism, ecological degradation, rapid urbanization, new sources of insecurity, and the changing landscape of higher education. Offering a comprehensive appraisal of globalization in our unsettled times, the authors explain why and how transplanetary interrelations continue to matter in a world that is wavering between globalist expansion and nationalist retrenchment.

Globalization. --- Nation-state and globalization. --- Globalization and the nation-state --- Globalization --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement

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Le Triangle fatal est un ouvrage tiré d'un cycle de trois leçons données par Stuart Hall à l'université de Harvard en 1994. Hall y traite de l'identité culturelle, qu'il tient pour la question politique centrale de notre époque, en examinant la construction discursive de trois de ses formes principales : la race, l'ethnicité et la nation. À chaque fois, il reconstruit les opérations discursives effectuées par ces notions, les significations qu'elles induisent, les différences qu'elles produisent et qui leur permettent d'avoir des effets réels. Par exemple, même si l'on sait que les races, entendues au sens biologique et génétique, n'existent pas, la dimension biologique de la notion de race est inéliminable : c'est la signification investie dans des caractéristiques physiques qui lui permet de fonctionner comme fabrique d'altérité, comme système de différenciations culturelles, sociales et politiques. C'est aussi sa fausse évidence ou naturalité qui lui confère sa permanence et son emprise. L'ethnicité est une catégorisation qui se veut plus large, et moins stigmatisante, que celle de race - une définition de l'identité davantage axée sur une communauté culturelle, en particulier de langue, de traditions et de coutumes. Selon Hall, dans le contexte de la mondialisation et de l'accélération des migrations mondiales, la résurgence de la problématique ethnique s'explique par le déclin d'hégémonie de l'échelon fondateur de l'identité collective moderne : la nation. L'identité étant ainsi scindée de son lieu concret d'origine, au profit d'un espace mondial plus abstrait, les identités prolifèrent et se mêlent les unes aux autres, de façon désordonnée, voire anarchique. C'est le paradigme de l'hybridité ou de l'identité diasporique, à propos de quoi Hall explique en conclusion : « La question n'est pas de savoir qui nous sommes, mais qui nous pouvons devenir. » Ce bref livre, qui présente de façon succincte la méthode et certaines des idées centrales de Stuart Hall, constitue le point d'entrée idéal dans une oeuvre dense et complexe, abordant des problématiques qui demeurent d'une brûlante actualité.

Ethnicité --- Nation --- Race --- ethnicité --- identité collective --- identité culturelle --- nation --- Ethnicity --- Ethnocentrism --- Nation-state and globalization --- Political aspects --- Ethnicity. --- Group identity. --- Ethnocentrism. --- Nation-state and globalization. --- Nationalism. --- Political aspects. --- Ethnicité. --- Identité collective. --- Nationalisme. --- Race - Political aspects

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Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author looks to a history that has refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read and re-read familiar stories, objects, symbols, and myths.Whose Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the medieval past. Myths about the medieval period are especially beloved among the globally resurgent far right, from crusading emblems on the shields borne by alt-right demonstrators to the on-screen image of a purely white European populace defended from actors of color by Internet trolls. This collection attacks these myths directly by insisting that readers encounter the relics of the Middle Ages on their own terms.Each essay uses its author’s academic research as a point of entry and takes care to explain how the author knows what she or he knows and what kinds of tools, bodies of evidence, and theoretical lenses allow scholars to write with certainty about elements of the past to a level of detail that might seem unattainable. By demystifying the methods of scholarly inquiry, Whose Middle Ages? serves as an antidote not only to the far right’s errors of fact and interpretation but also to its assault on scholarship and expertise as valid means for the acquisition of knowledge.

Civilization, Medieval. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages. --- Influence. --- Europe. --- alt-right. --- crusades. --- globalism. --- medievalism. --- middle ages. --- nation-state. --- race. --- white supremacy.

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In Self-determination and Minority Rights in China , Linzhu Wang examines the rights of China’s minorities from the perspective of self-determination. The book offers an insight into the ethnic issues in contemporary China, by examining the principle of self-determination in shaping China’s ethnic grouping and appraising the rights of the minorities and their limits. Based on a comprehensive survey of the practice of self-determination in the Chinese context and the Regional Ethnic Autonomy regime, the author seeks to answer the questions of how the ethnic policies and laws have come to be, why they are problematic, and what can be done to promote minority rights in China.

Minorities --- Self-determination, National --- National self-determination --- Nationalism --- Nation-state --- Nationalities, Principle of --- Sovereignty --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Civil rights