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The new nobility : the restoration of Russia's security state and the enduring legacy of the KGB
Overview: The security services have played a central-and often mysterious-role at key turning points in Russia during the tumultuous years following the Soviet collapse: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan school massacre. In this riveting investigation, two intrepid journalists penetrate the secret world of the FSB and illustrate how the security services have evolved into a ruthless, violently powerful force that is inextricably woven into modern Russia's fundamental makeup, and has become more shadowy than its predecessor, the Soviet KGB.
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Isabel la Católica como «chola globalizada» Iconoclasia y resignificación de un monumento boliviano
El 12 de octubre de 2020, activistas del colectivo Mujeres Creando atentaron contra el monumento a Isabel la Católica en la plaza epónima de La Paz, lanzando pintura roja y vistiendo a la estatua con pollera, sombrero bombín y aguayo. Se trata de una intervención sobre uno de los monumentos emblemáticos de la ciudad que, como varios otros, formó parte de los esfuerzos de las elites del Centenario por modernizar el país, exhibir una «Bolivia regenerada» y construir una identidad nacional con miras al futuro.
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Greece and the Augustan cultural revolution
\"This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece rooted in Europe and morally opposed to a stereotyped Asia. In Greece the regime signalled its admiration for Athens, Sparta, Olympia and Plataea as symbols of these past Greek glories. Cued by the Augustan monarchy, provincial-Greek notables expressed their Roman orientation by competitive cultural work (revival of ritual; restoration of buildings) aimed at further emphasising Greece's 'classical' legacy. Reprised by Hadrian, the Augustan construction of 'classical' Greece helped to promote the archaism typifying Greek culture under the principate\"-- Provided by publisher.
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La olla del mestizaje: Recetas y sociabilidad en el Potosí del siglo XVIII
El libro de cocina de doña Josepha de Escurrechea (Potosí, 1776) no solo permite reconstruir recetas, sino también las formas de la vida social de las elites organizadas en torno de la comida en una de las principales ciudades coloniales de América, además de rastrear las dinámicas de mestizaje, que tuvieron su correlato en las maneras de comer.
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Millionaire Migrants
Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.
* An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and Singapore
* Traces the histories of the migrants families over a 25 year period
* Offers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions of neo-liberal globalization, and an insertion of geography into transnational theory
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State Erosion
State failure is a central challenge to international peace and security in the post-Cold War era. Yet theorizing on the causes of state failure remains surprisingly limited. InState Erosion, Lawrence P. Markowitz draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Central Asian republics-Tajikistan, where state institutions fragmented into a five-year civil war from 1992 through 1997, and Uzbekistan, which constructed one of the largest state security apparatuses in post-Soviet Eurasia-to advance a theory of state failure focused on unlootable resources, rent seeking, and unruly elites.
In Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other countries with low capital mobility-where resources cannot be extracted, concealed, or transported to market without state intervention-local elites may control resources, but they depend on patrons to convert their resources into rents. Markowitz argues that different rent-seeking opportunities either promote the cooptation of local elites to the regime or incite competition over rents, which in turn lead to either cohesion or fragmentation. Markowitz distinguishes between weak states and failed states, challenges the assumption that state failure in a country begins at the center and radiates outward, and expands the \"resource curse\" argument to include cash crop economies, where mechanisms of state failure differ from those involved in fossil fuels and minerals. Broadening his argument to weak states in the Middle East (Syria and Lebanon) and Africa (Zimbabwe and Somalia), Markowitz shows how the distinct patterns of state failure in weak states with immobile capital can inform our understanding of regime change, ethnic violence, and security sector reform.
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Intelectuales y elites ¿Parte del problema o parte de la solución?
Durante las últimas décadas, existe una revitalización de la discusión sobre las elites, que sin embargo no ha estado acompañada de un debate profundo sobre el rol de los intelectuales en la reproducción social. Tal discusión resulta importante en un contexto en el que se suele mencionar el alejamiento de las elites de la sociedad como una de las razones del deterioro democrático, tanto en América Latina como a escala global.
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Venezuela: elites fugitivas en un país hecho escombros
La Revolución Bolivariana ha dado lugar a una reconfiguración de las elites en el país y a la emergencia de una nueva «burguesía bolivariana». Como en la novela de Francisco Herrera Luque, Los amos del valle, el país se parece más a una nación de feudos, hoy asociados a oscuros negocios bajo el ala del Estado, que en Venezuela rima con petróleo.
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The making of a transnational capitalist class
Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. With an indepth analysis that spans three decades, The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the world's largest corporations and related political organizations. Using social network analysis, William Carroll charts the making of a capitalist class which reaches beyond national forms of organization into a global field, but which faces spirited opposition from below in an ongoing struggle over alternative global futures.
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No longer separate, not yet equal
Against the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body? No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal pulls back the curtain on the selective college experience and takes a rigorous and comprehensive look at how race and social class impact each stage--from application and admission, to enrollment and student life on campus. Arguing that elite higher education contributes to both social mobility and inequality, the authors investigate such areas as admission advantages for minorities, academic achievement gaps tied to race and class, unequal burdens in paying for tuition, and satisfaction with college experiences. The book's analysis is based on data provided by the National Survey of College Experience, collected from more than nine thousand students who applied to one of ten selective colleges between the early 1980s and late 1990s. The authors explore the composition of applicant pools, factoring in background and \"selective admission enhancement strategies\"--including AP classes, test-prep courses, and extracurriculars--to assess how these strengthen applications. On campus, the authors examine roommate choices, friendship circles, and degrees of social interaction, and discover that while students from different racial and class circumstances are not separate in college, they do not mix as much as one might expect. The book encourages greater interaction among student groups and calls on educational institutions to improve access for students of lower socioeconomic status.
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