What would it mean to imagine Islam as an immanent critique of the West? Sayyid Ahmad Khan lived in a time of great tribulation for Muslim India under British rule. By examining Khan's work as a critical expression of modernity rooted in the Muslim experience of it, Islam as Critique argues that Khan is essential to understanding the problematics of modern Islam and its relationship to the West. The book re-imagines Islam as an interpretive strategy for investigating the modern condition,...
A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)
by V. Spike Peterson
Moving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it. V. Spike Peterson clearly shows how two key features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide. The first is explosive growth in financial markets that shape business decision-making and public policy-making, and the second is dramatic growth in informal and flexible work arrangements that shape income-gene...
Keep Calm and Plan on Industrial Ecologist
by Keep Calm Designer Papers
A Critical Analysis of Role of Print Media in the East Africa Community (Eac) Integration
by Thomas Muema and Consolata Mutisya
Preparation A l'Etude de la Langue Latine, Suivie d'Une Nouvelle Methode d'Analyse Logique (Langues)
by Biagioli-G
Tsevi Hirsch Kalischer (1795-1874) was one of the first Orthodox rabbis to advocate direct political action in order to radically transform Jewish life. Kalischer lived in a time when Jewish tradition was increasingly challenged by rational thought and social integration. Applying his knowledge of rabbinic literature to the unusual historical events unfolding around him, he became convinced that behind the rise of individual Jews to great power was a divine plan to prepare the way for messianic...
Traffic in Asian Women (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
by Laura Hyun Yi Kang
In Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of U.S. power/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility of the Japanese military "comfort system" (1932-1945) within that broader geohistorical arc. Although...
Hochaltrigkeit (Integrative Modelle in Psychotherapie, Supervision Und Berat)
In der Politik wird die sogenannte Vergreisung der Gesellschaft meist als Problem gesehen, z.B. fur die Rentenkassen oder das Gesundheitssystem, doch sind mit dem hohen Alter auch positive Aspekte verbunden: Das Buch beleuchtet in interdisziplinarer Sicht Probleme, Herausforderung und Chancen der Hochaltrigkeit - sowohl aus gesellschaftlicher, vor allem aber aus individueller Perspektive. Mit einem modernen, biopsychosozialen Ansatz werden wichtige Themen wie das alternde Gehirn, die psychologis...
Alternative Economies and Spaces: New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy
Kleine Madchen Und High Heels: Uber Die Visuelle Sexualisierung Fruhadoleszenter Madchen
by Sarah Dangendorf