The Transnational and the Local in the Politics of Islam: The Case of West Sumatra, Indonesia (Salim Delmus Puneri)(Pevná vazba)

The Transnational and the Local in the Politics of Islam: The Case of West Sumatra, Indonesia (Salim Delmus Puneri)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores the relationship between transnational and local Islam as expressed in public discourse and policy-making, as represented in the local press. It does so against the background of local governments in majority Muslim regions across Indonesia promoting and passing regulations that

Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union (Balci Bayram)(Pevná vazba)

A tour d'horizon of the role Islam plays in politics and the private sphere in Central Asia and the

A View from the Highlands: Archaeology and Settlement History of West Sumatra, Indonesia (Tjoa-Bonatz Mai Lin)(Paperback)

This book analyses the rise of the settlement system in the heartland of the Minangkabau region in the highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It explores the regional settlement pattern arising from Adityavarman's highland interregnum (c. 1347-75), and provides the first attempt to place the

Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics: The Secular Kurdish Movement and Islam (Sarigil Zeki)(Pevná vazba)

The Kurdish Movement in Turkey's growing alliance with Islam One of the fault lines of Turkish politics traditionally has been the divide between religious and secular movements. However, as Zeki Sarigil argues, the secular Kurdish movement in Turkey has increasingly become aligned with Islam. As a

Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West (Ibrahim Raymond)(Pevná vazba)

A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam--the sword and scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Roman emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's

The Politics of Digital India: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures (Thomas Pradip Ninan)(Pevná vazba)

This book locates Digital India in context. It deals with the many ways in which Digital India is shaped by local pressures and political expediencies as much as by global pressures, namely from one of India's strongest allies, the USA. However, this relationship with the USA is by no means

For Humanity or for the Umma?: Aid and Islam in Transnational Muslim Ngos (Petersen Marie Juul)(Pevná vazba)

In the wake of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror', transnational Muslim NGOs have too often been perceived as illegitimate fronts for global militant networks such as al-Qaeda or as backers of national political parties and resistance groups in Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Yet clearly there is

Local Politics in a Comparative Perspective: The Cases of Petrozavodsk and Tubingen (Chernenkova Elena)(Paperback)

Local self-government is one of the core principles of the political organisation of municipalities across Europe, and municipalities are the venue for citizens to directly experience politics. But they are also embedded in broader social and political contexts, which influence and shape political

Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change (Ansari Ali M.)(Pevná vazba)

The surprise election of Hasan Rouhani in 2013 has refocused attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the Ahmadinejad presidency. With comparisons being drawn between Rouhani and his predecessor, the late Reformist President Mohammad Khatami, there has never

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West (Belton Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

The hacking of the 2016 US elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin's Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine western institutions. But how and why did all this come about and who has orchestrated

The Politics of Migration and Mobility in the Art World: Transnational Baltic Artistic Practices Across Europe (Duester Emma)(Pevná vazba)

Explores the nature of artistic practices for highly mobile artists from the Baltic States, moving regularly across multiple borders across Europe in order to maintain their position on the global art world. Artists with trans-local homes that combine and connect homeland, host country and a unique

The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War (Orenstein Mitchell A.)(Pevná vazba)

Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war. While most citizens in the West are new to the problems of election hacking, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, influence operations by foreign

Tribal Politics in the Borderland of Egypt and Libya (Hsken Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores the tribal politics of the Awlad 'Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. These tribal politics are part of heterarchy in which sovereignty is shared between tribes, states and other groups and, within this dynamic setting, the local politicians of the Awlad 'Ali are

The Politics of Bodies at Risk: The Human in the Body (Struble Maria Boikova)(Pevná vazba)

The Politics of Bodies at Risk re-engages and re-conceptualizes politics from the point of view of the everyday experiences of human materiality living with risk across geopolitical worlds and state

Augustus and the Destruction of History - The politics of the past in early imperial Rome(Pevná vazba)

Dreams Made Small: The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia (Munro Jenny)(Pevná vazba)

For the last 53 years, the Dani of the central highlands of West Papua, along with other Papuans, have struggled under the oppressive and violent conditions of Indonesian rule. Formal education holds the promise of escape from this stigmatization. Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic

Developing England's North: The Political Economy of the Northern Powerhouse (Berry Craig)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores the politics of local economic development in Northern England. Socio-economic conditions in the North - and its future prospects - have become central to national debates in the UK. The status of Northern regions and their local economies is intimately associated with efforts to

Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine (Horsley Richard A.)(Pevná vazba)

In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth�s mission and how he became a significant historical figure. In his study Horsley brings a fuller historical knowledge of the context and implications of

Unveiling Islam (Du Pasquier Roger)(Paperback)

In these closing years of the 20th century Islam has captured the attention of the West, and has baffled it. Alone among the world's religions, Islam is not just surviving but flourishing. From Indonesia to West Africa, and even in some Western countries, Muslims are reasserting their spiritual and

The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (Walsh Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Without an understanding and appreciation of the culture we seek to preserve and protect, the defense of Western civilization is fundamentally futile; a culture that believes in nothing cannot defend itself, because it has nothing to defend. The past not only still has something to tell us, but it

The Identitarians: The Movement Against Globalism and Islam in Europe (Zquete Jos Pedro)(Pevná vazba)

The Identitarians are a quickly growing ethnocultural transnational movement that, in diverse forms, originated in France and Italy and has spread into southern, central, and northern Europe. This timely and important study presents the first book-length analysis of this anti-globalist and

The Religion of Orange Politics: Protestantism and Fraternity in Contemporary Scotland (Webster Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish independence referendum, Joseph Webster details how Scotland's largest Protestant-only fraternity shapes the

The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development (Moeller Kathryn)(Paperback)

How and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of research in the

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe (Siklodi Nora)(Pevná vazba)

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe explores contemporary models of national and European Union (EU) citizenship in the context of intra-EU mobility. Scholars have often addressed these models from separate disciplinary standpoints. National citizenship has been studied through the prism