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Norm dynamics in multilateral arms control : interests, conflicts, and justice
\"Efforts to create or maintain rules to contain the risks stemming from an unrestrained multilateral arms race are at the core of a world order based on consensual norms rather than on a pure balance of power. Whereas security cooperation is conventionally considered to be motivated primarily by interest- and security-based factors, studies have shown that all actors use moral arguments and are deeply embedded in the normative patterns surrounding their realm of action. Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control, based on research conducted by a large PRIF team led by Harald M
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Sonic Agency
In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book highlights sound's invisible, disruptive and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation.
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Wombs of empire : population discourses and biopolitics in modern Japan
Japan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is thought of as relatively recent phenomenon, government and medical intervention in reproduction and fertility are hardly new in Japan. The \"population problem (jinko mondai)\" became a buzzword in the country over a century ago, in the 1910s, with a growing call among Japanese social scientists and social reformers to solve what were seen as existential demographic issues.
In this book, Sujin Lee traces the trajectory of population discourses in interwar and wartime Japan, and positions them as critical sites where competing visions of modernity came into tension. Lee destabilizes the essentialized notions of motherhood and population by dissecting gender norms, modern knowledge, and government practices, each of which played a crucial role in valorizing, regulating, and mobilizing women's maternal bodies and responsibilities in the name of population governance. Bringing a feminist perspective and Foucauldian theory to bear on the history of Japan's wartime scientific fascism, Lee shows how anxieties over demographics have undergirded justifications for ethnonationalism and racism, colonialism and imperialism, and gender segregation for much of Japan's modern history.
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Emergency contraception : the story of a global reproductive health technology
\"Globally, more than one fourth of all pregnancies are unintended. Emergency contraception can be used after sex to reduce the risk of pregnancy. But despite their safety and efficacy, emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) have sparked controversy worldwide. In examining the journey of ECPs in fourteen countries, this volume explores the ways that a global reproductive health technology both acquires local cultural meaning and encounters similar challenges everywhere it is introduced worldwide. This book's portraits of activism and opposition highlight the range of social, cultural, religious, and political contexts that shape the interpretation of new medical technologies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics
Communal Intimacy and the Violence of
Politics explores the notoriously brutal
Philippine war on drugs from below. Steffen Bo Jensen and
Karl Hapal examine how the war on drugs folded itself into communal
and intimate spheres in one Manila neighborhood, Bagong Silang.
Police killings have been regular occurrences since the birth of
Bagong Silang. Communal Intimacy and the Violence of
Politics shows that although the drug war was introduced from
the outside, it fit into and perpetuated already existing gendered
and generational structures. In Bagong Silang, the war on drugs
implicated local structures of authority, including a justice
system that had always been deeply integrated into communal
relations. The ways in which the war on drugs transformed these
intimate relations between the state and its citizens, and between
neighbors, may turn out to be the most lasting impact of Duterte's
infamously violent policies.
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Twitter and tear gas : the power and fragility of networked protest
No detailed description available for \"Twitter and Tear Gas\".
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Landlock : paralysing dispute over minerals on Adivasi land in India
This book explores the ways in which political controversy over a bauxite mining and refining project on constitutionally protected tribal lands in Andhra Pradesh descended into a state of paralysis where no productive outcome was possible.
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