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SUP New Books http://www.sup.org/rss/newbooks.xml The latest titles from Stanford University Press en-us Copyright 2013 Stanford University Press webmaster@www.sup.org (Webmaster) http://www.sup.org/favicon.ico A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861–1950 A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861–1950 Sabina Donati "This book successfully crosses one of the great divides in Italian historiography, that between Liberal and Fascist regimes, in accounting for the development of an Italian national political identity. The scholarship, organization, and theoretical thrust of the book conspire to produce a thoroughly excellent piece of work."—John Agnew, UCLA"This book makes particular contributions to women's history, legal history, citizenship studies, comparative nationalism, and an analysis of fascism. Threads of history interweave to present a new understanding—this book is more than the sum of its many parts."—Mark Choate, Brigham Young University <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=18124">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>This book examines the fascinating origins and the complex evolution of Italian national citizenship from the unification of Italy in 1861 until just after World War II. It does so by exploring the civic history of Italians in the peninsula, and of Italy's colonial and overseas native populations. Using little-known documentation, Sabina Donati delves into the policies, debates, and formal notions of Italian national citizenship with a view to grasping the multi-faceted, evolving, and often contested vision(s) of italianità. In her study, these disparate visions are brought into conversation with contemporary scholarship pertaining to alienhood, racial thinking, migration, expansionism, and gender. As the first English-language book on the modern history of Italian citizenship, this work highlights often-overlooked precedents, continuities, and discontinuities within and between liberal and fascist Italies. It invites the reader to compare the Italian experiences with other European ones, such as French, British, and German citizenship traditions.Sabina Donati is Lecturer at Webster University Geneva. http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=18124 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=18124 Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language Ilit Ferber "This is a remarkable and timely study of Walter Benjamin's early writings. No longer an obscure hermetic work from some distant historical moment, Benjamin's Trauerspiel becomes central to contemporary philosophical concerns."—Andrew Benjamin, Monash University"Ilit Ferber's study of the structuring role played by the concept of melancholy in Benjamin's Origin of German Trauerspiel offers a penetrating and absolutely original account of a central problem in Benjamin's development of a philosophically-based criticism. Ferber's book reveals melancholy, usually treated as something merely subjective and psychological, as a 'fundamental mood of philosophical disclosure' and a 'philosophical, structural edifice.' By displacing the emphasis from personal pathology to historical and philosophical structures, she is able to open up melancholy as a structure of loss with profound consequences for narrative, history, and philosophy. The full thrust of Benjamin's emphasis on Baroque eschatology emerges here for the first time: the loss of the world, both present and impending, is represented as the melancholic structure of an era.Philosophy and Melancholy intervenes powerfully in contemporary debates on the ongoing role of psychoanalytic criticism, on the philosophical problem of the relationship of consciousness to objects, and on the role of affect in language."—Michael Jennings, Princeton University <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20524">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his own fate, Ferber considers the concept's implications for his philosophy. Informed by Heidegger's discussion of moods and their importance for philosophical thought, she contends that a melancholic mood is the organizing principle or structure of Benjamin's early metaphysics and ontology. Her novel analysis of Benjamin's arguments about theater and language features a discussion of the Trauerspiel book that is amongst the first in English to scrutinize the baroque plays themselves. Philosophy and Melancholy also contributes to the history of philosophy by establishing a strong relationship between Benjamin and other philosophers, including Leibniz, Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger.Ilit Ferber is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=20524 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=20524 Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq David Fitzgerald "An excellent study that takes a hard look at America's longest and possibly darkest military shadow."—Antulio J. Echevarria II, Director of Research, US Army War College"Among the many notable works on the legacy of Vietnam, the decline and resurgence of counterinsurgency doctrine, and the conduct of the Iraq-Afghanistan wars, Fitzgerald's is exemplary. It is a masterful work of research, of synthesis and original analysis, and of clear and insightful writing." —Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M University; author of ThePhilippine War, 1899-1902 <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22860">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years and the conflict in Bosnia, culminating in the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. It explains how the lessons of Vietnam led the Army to Iraq and the way in which their confronting and reimagining of these lessons offered them a way out of that war. In the process it provides an illustration of how military leaders make use of history and demonstrates the difficulties of drawing lessons from the past that can usefully be applied to contemporary circumstances. The book outlines how the construction of lessons is tied to the construction of historical memory and describes the interplay between the two processes—demonstrating how histories are constructed to serve the needs of the present. In so doing, it creates a new theory of doctrinal development. David Fitzgerald is Lecturer in International Politics in the School of History at University College Cork, Ireland. http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=22860 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=22860 Voice from the North: Resurrecting Regional Identity Through the Life and Work of Yi Sihang (1672–1736) Voice from the North: Resurrecting Regional Identity Through the Life and Work of Yi Sihang (1672–1736) Sun Joo Kim "Sun Joo Kim issues a powerful challenge to the focus on the Seoul elite that dominates most academic discussions of Korea's history. Directing our scholarly glaze toward the neglected north, she invites us to rethink the relationship between the center and the periphery during the Choson dynasty."—Donald Baker, University of British Columbia"Sun Joo Kim's fine new book opens a window on a subject rarely treated in English: regional discrimination against northerners in Korea during the Choson period, and the acute consciousness that historians in North Korea have about it today. Kim adds so much to our understanding of the distinctly Korean and regional heritage that rests at the foundation of this regime. She also teases out the 'amnesia' about the northern region on the part of historians of pre-modern Korea, which is both a traditional predilection and something reinforced by the division of the country. This widely-researched book is essential reading for anyone trying to understand Korea's pronounced history of regionalism."—Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago, author of Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22177">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>Voice from the North resurrects the forgotten historical memory of the people and region in late Choson Korea while also enriching the social history of the country. Sun Joo Kim accomplishes this by examining the life and work of Yi Sihang, a historically obscure person from a hinterland in Korea's northwestern region who was also a member of the literati. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Yi Sihang left numerous writings on his region's history and culture, and on the political and social discrimination that he and others in his region faced from the central elite. This work explores a regional history and culture through the frames of microhistory and historical memory. Kim criticizes the historiographical problem of "otherizing" the northern region and fills a gap in Korean historiography—the lack of historical study of the northern region from a regional perspective, P'yongan Province in particular. The biographical format of this work engages readers in the investigation of a person's life within the changing world of his time and also creates a space where private and public intersect. Kim places Yi Sihang at the center of the historical stage while describing, analyzing, and reconstructing the world around him through his life story.Sun Joo Kim is Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Director of Korea Institute, Harvard University. http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=22177 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=22177 Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 Aaron Stephen Moore "An expertly written and cogently argued study, singular in its skillful combining of intellectual, cultural, and politico-economic history. Moore breaks new ground in particular by showing how Japanese engineers in the 1930s and early forties strove to make 'concrete' expanded notions of technology through infrastructure projects on the continent."—Steven J. Ericson, Dartmouth College"Constructing East Asia offers a robust counterpoint to the standard narrative of imperial Japan dominated by fanatical ultra-nationalists steeped in irrational Shinto spiritualism. Instead, we find technocrats—otherwise rational actors grounded in science—deploying the 'technological imaginary' to rationalize colonial exploitation and imperial designs on the Asian mainland. Moore's scholarship is exceptionally thorough, precise, and often provocative."—Walter E. Grunden, Bowling Green State University <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22812">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut and dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 1931–1945. Challenging the status quo, Constructing East Asia examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and engineers used technology as a system of power and mobilization—what historian Aaron Moore terms a "technological imaginary"—to rally people in Japan and its expanding empire. By analyzing how these different actors defined technology in public discourse, national policies, and large-scale infrastructure projects, Moore reveals wartime elites as far more calculated in thought and action than previous scholarship allows. Moreover, Moore positions the wartime origins of technology deployment as an essential part of the country's national policy and identity, upending another predominant narrative—namely, that technology did not play a modernizing role in Japan until the "economic miracle" of the postwar years.Aaron Stephen Moore is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=22812 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=22812 Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America Michael Trask "Full of surprises, Trask's book shows how Cold War academic culture shared in the irony, detachment, and performance of 1950s camp. Or so the New Left believed, which explains why they viewed homosexuals and college professors with such suspicion. This stunning history of postwar America shows what was at stake when angry young men put their bodies on the line on college campuses in the 1960s, and it illuminates the ongoing paradoxes of Left protest."—Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22511">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book argues that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures. Both Cold War liberals and radicals understood the university as a privileged site for "doing politics," and both exiled homosexuality from the political ideals each group favored. Liberals, who advanced a politics of style over substance, saw gay people as unable to separate the two, as incapable of maintaining the opportunistic suspension of disbelief on which a tough-minded liberalism depended. Radicals, committed to a politics of authenticity, saw gay people as hopelessly beholden to the role-playing and duplicity that the radicals condemned in their liberal forebears. Camp Sites considers key themes of postwar culture, from the conflict between performance and authenticity to the rise of the meritocracy, through the lens of camp, the underground sensibility of pre-Stonewall gay life. In so doing, it argues that our basic assumptions about the social style of the postwar milieu are deeply informed by certain presuppositions about homosexual experience and identity, and that these presuppositions remain stubbornly entrenched despite our post-Stonewall consciousness-raising.Michael Trask is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky and the author of Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought (2003). http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=22511 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=22511 Galana: Elephant, Game Domestication, and Cattle on a Kenya Ranch Galana: Elephant, Game Domestication, and Cattle on a Kenya Ranch Martin Anderson <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22115">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>An avid sportsman, Martin Anderson first visited Kenya on a hunting safari in 1960, three years before the country gained its independence from English colonial administration. Anxious to return and be a part of Kenya's new beginning and Jomo Kenyata's encouragement of "harambee" (working together with European settlers/farmers), he partnered with a Kenya settler and started to raise cattle. Four years later and with one more partner, he accepted the government's offer to develop a vast tract of raw African bush for a game and cattle ranch. This book is a history of that grand and remarkable journey. Galana recounts the story of the creation, achievements, and demise of the largest cattle ranch in Kenya and perhaps all of Africa. Located on an arid 2,500-square-mile tract—1 percent of all the land in Kenya—the Galana Ranch was founded in 1968. Galana introduced cattle into a region with virulent insect-borne disease, adapted the animals to the land, and bred resistant stock. It conducted scientific research into the domestication of wildlife, and aimed to manage Galana's vast natural population of elephants, lions, rhino, lesser kudu, eland, oryx, and other game to help that population attain a level the land could support. In the 1970s and 80s, however, an epidemic of poaching nearly wiped out Galana's vast elephant herds, and the ranch shut down in 1989. This engrossing memoir goes to the heart of Kenya's wildlife management issues and political challenges through a personal tale of adventure and enterprise in Africa.Martin Anderson is currently a Distinguished Overseer at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, his alma mater. He has pursued many endeavors during his life: trial lawyer in Hawaii and San Francisco; active reservist in the United States Marine Corps with two tours of active duty in World War II and the Inchon/Chosin campaign in Korea; developing partner in Heavenly Valley Ski resort in Lake Tahoe and other land developments; and Kenya rancher. Martin currently lives in Palo Alto, CA and continues to visit Kenya annually. http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=22115 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=22115 After Yugoslavia: The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land After Yugoslavia: The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished LandEdited by Radmila Gorup "This collection brings together a remarkable roster of writers and scholars to consider the past, present, and future of the diverse yet closely interconnected cultural spaces that the dissolution of Yugoslavia left behind. There have been many attempts to explain the causes and character of Yugoslavia's demise, but so far few have identified—let alone analyzed or interpreted—Yugoslavia's legacy in such comprehensive, nuanced, and stimulating terms."—Wendy Bracewell, University College London <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=21918">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>The book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the dissolution of the common country. Most of the contributions can be seen as current attempts to make sense of the past and help cultures in transition, as well as to report on them. The volume is a mixture of personal essays and scholarly articles and that combination of genres makes the book both moving and informative. Its importance is unique. While many studies dwell on the causes of the demise of Yugoslavia, this collection touches upon these causes but goes beyond them to identify Yugoslavia's legacy in a comprehensive way. It brings topics and writers, usually treated separately, into fruitful dialog with one another.Radmila Gorup is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=21918 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=21918 The Adversary First Amendment: Free Expression and the Foundations of American Democracy The Adversary First Amendment: Free Expression and the Foundations of American Democracy Martin H. Redish "Martin Redish sets forth and forcefully defends a powerful and important theory of the First Amendment, persuasively illustrating its application in three significant areas: commercial speech, campaign spending, and anonymous speech. This is a must-read for anyone interested in First Amendment theory."—Eugene Volokh, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law"Redish's The Adversary First Amendment is a passionate defense of a strong and broad right of freedom of expression. Although Redish justifies freedom of expression by its contribution to democratic self-rule, he argues that adversary democracy requires protection of free expression in all domains in which individuals discover their interests and values and that it cannot be restricted to political arenas or to 'public discourse.' Although Redish's theory of free expression puts him at odds with some leading First Amendment theorists, his arguments are formidable. The Adversary First Amendment is destined to be part of the First Amendment canon."—Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20322">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>The Adversary First Amendment presents a unique and controversial rethinking of modern American democratic theory and free speech. Most free speech scholars understand the First Amendment as a vehicle for or protection of democracy itself, relying upon cooperative or collectivist theories of democracy. Martin Redish reconsiders free speech in the context of adversary democracy, arguing that individuals should have the opportunity to affect the outcomes of collective decision-making according to their own values and interests. Adversary democracy recognizes the inevitability of conflict within a democratic society, as well as the need for regulation of that conflict to prevent the onset of tyranny. In doing so, it embraces pluralism, diversity, and the individual growth and development deriving from the promotion of individual interests. Drawing on previous free speech scholarship and case studies of controversial speech, Redish advances a theory of free expression grounded in democratic notions of self-promotion and controlled adversary conflict, making a strong case for its application across such areas as commercial speech, campaign spending, and anonymous speech.Martin H. Redish is the Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy at Northwestern University School of Law. He is the author of Wholesale Justice (Stanford, 2008) and The Logic of Persecution (Stanford, 2004). http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=20322 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=20322 The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research The Handbook of Rational Choice Social ResearchEdited by Rafael Wittek, Tom A.B. Snijders, and Victor Nee "Spearheaded by three preeminent scholars, offering the best qualitative, quantitative, and theoretical work in the field, this handbook illustrates the diversity of empirical research guided by rational choice theory. The logic is engagingly simple, the substantive insights impressive."—Ronald S. Burt, The University of Chicago"A marvelous must-read for anyone interested in human behavior. The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research takes on the challengers to rational choice and shows in a remarkable breadth of applications how rational choice models and empirical evidence can advance our understanding of virtually every aspect of social interaction. This handbook is the antidote to the vast amount of misguided, misinformed, or out-of-date critiques of the rational choice perspective."—Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, New York University and Senior Fellow, emeritus, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University"This volume provides a deep and wide-ranging review of the strengths, weaknesses and accomplishments of modern rational choice theory. By taking a problem-oriented approach, and focusing on empirical evidence across topics ranging from institutional design to the assimilation of immigrants, and from the advance of secularization to the origins of war, the contributors offer a rich menu of directions for any researcher exploring this field."—John Sutton, The London School of Economics <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=21110">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology. Taking on issues ranging from financial markets and terrorism to immigration, race relations, and emotions, and a huge variety of other phenomena, rational choice proves a useful tool for theory- driven social research. Each chapter uses a rational choice framework to elaborate on testable hypotheses and then apply this to empirical research, including experimental research, survey studies, ethnographies, and historical investigations. Useful to students and scholars across the social sciences, this handbook will reinvigorate discussions about the utility and versatility of the rational choice approach, its key assumptions, and tools.Rafael Wittek is Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the University of Groningen. Tom A. B. Snijders is Professor of Statistics in the Social Sciences at the University of Oxford and the University of Groningen. Victor Nee is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=21110 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=21110 People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier Ruha Benjamin "Telling the story of the social and political lives of stem cells in America, Ruha Benjamin compels you to consider how political expedience and vague promises of a better future too often trump social equity in publicly funded scientific research. This is an immensely important and timely book, impeccably researched and forcefully argued."—Michael Montoya, University of California, Irvine, author of Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality"Ruha Benjamin powerfully contests the autonomy of scientists and argues instead for a radically inclusive public engagement in science. Grounded in the heated battle over stem cell research, People's Science highlights the voices of people with disabilities, African Americans, and women to show why citizens should have the power to influence science as much as scientists influence society. A must read for students and scholars interested in science and society, as well as advocates for more democratic participation in cutting-edge biotechnologies."—Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century"In this fascinating account of an experiment both political and scientific, Ruha Benjamin takes us behind the scenes of California's massive, voter-driven investment in stem cell research. People's Science examines the tread marks where the rubber meets the road: Whose interests are served, whose bodies provide the raw research materials, and which groups reap the benefits? This is a must-read contribution to our understanding of health disparities, 'biological citizenship,' and the politics of knowledge-making."—Steven Epstein, Northwestern University, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"As we move full steam into an era of citizen-driven science, Ruha Benjamin's wonderful examination of stem-cell initiatives is a welcome reminder that politics and social justice don't necessarily enjoy a good prognosis even when scientific priorities are motivated by democratic processes. Science of the people, by the people and for the people does not always mean all the people."—Dalton Conley, New York University <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20585">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments—good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace—ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting relationship between science and society, on the people who benefit—or don't—from regenerative medicine and what this says about our democratic commitments to an equitable society. People's Science uncovers the tension between scientific innovation and social equality, taking the reader inside California's 2004 stem cell initiative, the first of many state referenda on scientific research, to consider the lives it has affected. Benjamin reveals the promise and peril of public participation in science, illuminating issues of race, disability, gender, and socio-economic class that serve to define certain groups as more or less deserving in their political aims and biomedical hopes. Under the shadow of the free market and in a nation still at odds with universal healthcare, the socially marginalized are often eagerly embraced as test-subjects, yet often are unable to afford new medicines and treatment regimes as patients. Ultimately, Ruha Benjamin argues that without more deliberate consideration about how scientific initiatives can and should reflect a wider array of social concerns, stem cell research— from African Americans' struggle with sickle cell treatment to the recruitment of women as tissue donors—still risks excluding many. Even as regenerative medicine is described as a participatory science for the people, Benjamin asks us to consider if "the people" ultimately reflects our democratic ideals.Ruha Benjamin is Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American studies at Boston University and an American Council of Learned Societies fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Science, Technology, and Society Program. She is actively engaged in community initiatives that investigate the social impact and meaning of new biotechnologies in forensic and medical settings. She blogs about the broader questions of innovation and citizen science at facebook.com/peoples.science and on Twitter @Peoples_Science. http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=20585 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=20585 Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin AmericaEdited by Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero "Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero's collection offers us a vivid panorama of neoliberalism and its interruption, keeping in mind broader patterns of political economic transformation and civil society struggle. The chapters forcefully demonstrate neoliberalism's investment in violence and regulation, while opening our eyes to civil society's spaces to challenge them. From Buenos Aires to Venezuela, from race to gender, this collection represents an important theoretical and critical engagement with Latin America's current realities."—Sarah A. Radcliffe, University of Cambridge, author of Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism"Neoliberalism, Interrupted makes an important contribution to studying Latin America's rapidly changing socio-political landscape. The volume's authors remind us that the region presents a rich laboratory for experiments that defy existing categories of social and political theory in contradictory, but potentially exciting new ways."—Philip Oxhorn, McGill University"This book will resonate with all those interested in one of the most important political questions for Latin America today. The authors resist the temptation to provide easy answers—the essays are subtle and effective, their sophistication buttressed by empirical and theoretical rigor."—Sian Lazar, University of Cambridge"This timely collection brings together diverse disciplinary perspectives to explore the limits of neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Latin America. The contributors provide fine-grained, ethnographic analysis of alternatives to the 'Washington consensus,' both grandiose and grassroots, revealing in the process the promises and contradictions of 'post-neoliberal' political programs and social projects."—Patrick C. Wilson, University of Lethbridge <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=17903">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. socialism, right vs. left, indigenous vs. mestizo, and national vs. transnational. Deploying both ethnographic research and more synthetic reflections on meaning, consequence, and possibility, the essays focus on the ways in which a range of unresolved contradictions interconnect various projects for change and resistance to change in Latin America. Useful to students and scholars across disciplines, this groundbreaking volume reorients how sociopolitical change has been understood and practiced in Latin America. It also carries important lessons for other parts of the world with similar histories and structural conditions.Mark Goodale is Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Anthropology at George Mason University and Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights. He is the author of Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford, 2009) and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford, 2008). Nancy Postero is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Post-Multicultural Bolivia (Stanford, 2006), and co-author, with Leon Zamosc, of The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America (2003). http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=17903 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=17903 Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era Angelina Snodgrass Godoy "Of Medicines and Markets is an engaging and persuasive study of the intersection of intellectual property and human rights in Central America that conveys cogent doubts about the capacity of transnational 'access to medicine' movements to serve as an effective counterweight to global trade regimes. Godoy admirably dissects the forces which have conspired to depoliticize both resistance to intellectual property expansion and the human rights rhetoric in which this is voiced. The book delivers insights that should transform advocacy and scholarship; it should be widely read and acclaimed."—Rosemary J. Coombe, York University <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=18777">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>Central American countries have long defined health as a human right. But in recent years regional trade agreements have ushered in aggressive intellectual property reforms, undermining this conception. Questions of IP and health provisions are pivotal to both human rights advocacy and "free" trade policy, and as this book chronicles, complex political battles have developed across the region. Looking at events in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala, Angelina Godoy argues that human rights advocates need to approach intellectual property law as more than simply a roster of regulations. IP represents the cutting edge of a global tendency to value all things in market terms: Life forms—from plants to human genetic sequences—are rendered commodities, and substances necessary to sustain life—medicines—are restricted to insure corporate profits. If we argue only over the terms of IP protection without confronting the underlying logic governing our trade agreements, then human rights advocates will lose even when they win.Angelina Snodgrass Godoy is Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human Rights and founding director of the Center for Human Rights at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America (Stanford University Press, 2006). http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=18777 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=18777 Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson's Political Philosophy Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson's Political Philosophy Alexandre Lefebvre "Pierre Hadot wrote that essential to Bergsonism is the idea that philosophy entails the transformation of perception. In this hugely instructive new book Alexandre Lefebvre shows what such a transformation means for our appreciation of human rights. For him we require a new way of being in the world, one that involves a fundamental self-transformation and establishing relationships with others based on generosity and love. The remarkable innovation of this text is to use Bergson's philosophy for this end and to show that human rights involve a practice of self-care, one that opens us up to the world and to life and in which love is no longer tied to preference, exclusion, and closure. This message remains as vital today as when Bergson first attempted to articulate it in the 1930s. Lefebvre is to be congratulated for producing such a novel and fresh approach to the issue of human rights. The book is a fabulous exercise in contemporary philosophizing and deserves to be widely read."—Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick"Lefebvre's elaboration of Bergson's concept of love is brilliant. His insistence on Bergson's use of biology to understand morality ties the book into contemporary debates on neo-vitalism, and his discussion of De Waal engages with contemporary debates around naturalism and morality. This important book makes a real contribution to contemporary political theory and, more locally, to Bergson studies and studies in recent French thought."—Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University <center><a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=23067">To buy this book or view bibliographic details, click here.</a></center>The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early twentieth century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions. Indeed, Bergson is best known for his writings on time, evolution, and creativity. This book concentrates instead on his political philosophy—and especially on his late masterpiece, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion—from which Alexandre Lefebvre develops an original approach to human rights. We tend to think of human rights as the urgent international project of protecting all people everywhere from harm. Bergson shows us that human rights can also serve as a medium of personal transformation and self-care. For Bergson, the main purpose of human rights is to initiate all human beings into love. Forging connections between human rights scholarship and philosophy as self-care, Lefebvre uses human rights to channel the whole of Bergson's philosophy.Alexandre Lefebvre is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is author of The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza (Stanford, 2008). http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=23067 http://www.sup.org/rss/book_rss.cgi?id=23067