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Deconstructing Reagan. by Longley, Kyle

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Poltiical change in the Third World by Andrain, Charles F.

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Against abstraction : notes from an ex-Latin Americanist by Moreiras, Alberto

Table of Contents: “…Marranism and inscription -- My life at Z : a theoretical fiction -- The fatality of (my) subalternism -- May I kill a narco? -- The turn of deconstruction -- We have good reasons for this (and they keep coming) : revolutionary drive and democratic desire -- Time out of joint in Antonio Muñoz Molina's La noche de los tiempos and Todo lo que era sólido -- Ethos Daimon : the improbable imposture -- A conversation regarding the notion of infrapolitics, and a few other things -- Appendix. …”
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From the Ethical to Politics On Deconstructionś Necessary Leap Toward Immanence in Light of the Other. by Kayßer, Malte

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Encountering the Nigerian state

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Excess and Abjection in the Study of the African State; 1 Deconstructing "Oluwole": Political Economy at the Margins of the State; 2 The Spatial Economy of Abjection: The Evacuation of Maroko Slum in Nigeria; 3 "Rotten English": Excremental Politics and Literary Witnessing; 4 The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Mobilization in Nigeria; 5 Vocalizing Rage: Deconstructing the Language of Antistate Forces; 6 The Subaltern Encounters the State: OPC-State Relations 1999-2003.…”
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The geopolitics of memory : a journey to Bosnia by Riding, James

Table of Contents: “…-- An Appropriate Gesture -- A Postcard from Bosnia -- A Travelogue on the Balkans -- The Case of Dayton Bosnia -- Deconstructing Territorial Ethno-Politics -- Remembering Trauma in Dayton Bosnia -- European Spatial Imaginaries and Balkanism -- An Attempt: Day One -- An Attempt: Day Two -- An Attempt: Day Three -- A Motive for this Project -- War and the Spectacle -- The Ground of the Image -- A Non-Ontopological Account -- Deconstructing Dayton -- A Final Journey -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Stuart Hall by Procter, James

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; WHY HALL?; KEY IDEAS; Deconstructing the 'popular'; Enter cultural studies; Encoding/decoding; Racism and resistance; Thatcherism and 'New Times'; The real me; AFTER HALL; FURTHER READING; Works cited; Index.…”
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Latinamericanism after 9/11 by Beverley, John, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Latinamericanism after 9/11 -- The persistence of the nation (against empire) -- Deconstruction and Latinamericanism (apropos Alberto Moreiras's the Exhaustion of difference) -- Between Ariel and Caliban : on the politics of location of Latinamericanism and the question of solidarity -- The neoconservative turn -- Beyond the paradigm of disillusion : rethinking the armed struggle in Latin America -- The subaltern and the state.…”
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Citizen participation in decision making : towards inclusive development in Kenya

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The Sorcery of Color : Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil. by Nascimento, Elisa

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Foreword by Kabengele Munanga; Introduction; Identity, Race, and Gender; Brazil and the Making of Virtual Whiteness; Constructing and Deconstructing the "Crazy Creole"; Another History: Afro-Brazilian Agency (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1914-1960); The Black Experimental Theater: Plots, Texts, and Actors; Concluding Remarks: The Priority of Education; Notes; List of Abbreviations; Glossary of Brazilian Words; Bibliographical Note to the English Edition; Selected Bibliography; Index.…”
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The insubordination of signs : political change, cultural transformation, and poetics of the crisis by Richard, Nelly

Table of Contents: “…Destruction, reconstruction, and deconstruction -- Four. The social sciences : Front lines and points of retreat -- Five. …”
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The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam : Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry. by Safi, Omid

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Acknowledgments; Transliteration Systems and Chronologies; Introduction; Chronology of the Great Saljuqs and 'Abbaasids; Key Figures and Primary Sources; Chapter One: Deconstructing the Great Saljuq Myth; Chapter Two: The Nizam's Realm, the Orderly Realm; Chapter Three: Saljuq State Apparatuses; Chapter Four: The Shifting Politics of al-Ghazali; Chapter Five: Bargaining with Baraka; Chapter Six: An Oppositional Sufi: 'Ayn al-Qudaat Hamadani; Conclusion; Appendix: Nizam al-Mulk's Descendants in Saljuq Administrations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Muslim spaces of hope : geographies of possibility in Britain and the West

Table of Contents: “…; 1 -- Spaces of hope: interventions; 2 -- Muslims in the West: deconstructing geographical binaries; 3 -- The hopeful and exclusionary politics of Islam in Australia: looking for alternative geographies of 'Western Islam'; Part Two -- Convivial Cities; 4 -- Veils and sales: Muslims and the spaces of post-colonial fashion retail; 5 -- Citizenship and faith: Muslim scout groups.…”
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Contesting Europe's eastern rim : cultural identities in public discourse

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Present Politics of the Past : Indigenous Legal Activism and Resistance to (Neo)Liberal. by Eudaily, Sen Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; 1 Opening Statements: Clearing a Space for Thought; 2 Interrogations: A Hauntology of Indigenous Peoples in World Politics; 3 Governing "Free Subjects": A Genealogy of (Neo)Liberal Governmentality; 4 Specters of Colonialism: Indigenous Legal Practice as Deconstructive Jurisprudence; 5 Dossiers Introduction; 6 Native Title in Australia; 7 Native Title in Canada; 8 Judgements: Indigenous Legal Claims Beyond the Limits of Liberalism; Notes; Bibliography; Table of Authorities; Index.…”
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The new Eastern Europe : Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova / Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova

Table of Contents: “…Stephen Larrabee -- Deconstructing a region / Gerhard Mangott.…”

Trumpism, Mexican America, and the struggle for Latinx citizenship

Table of Contents: “…Gonzales -- To Wield and Exceed the Law: Mexicans, Migration, and the Dream of Herrenvolk Democracy / Cristina Beltran -- Deconstructing Trumpism: Lessons from the Recent Past and for the Near Future / David Montejano -- Reckoning with the Gaze / Michelle Garcia -- Artist versus Ideologue: Two American Dystopias / Renato Rosaldo -- I Won't Tell My Story: Narrative Capital and Refusal among Undocumented Activists in the Trump Era / Alyshia Galvez -- How Did We Get Here? …”
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Collective Insecurity : the Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order. by Mgbeoji, Ikechi

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Beyond the Islamic Revolution : Perceptions of Modernity and Tradition in Iran before and after 1979. by Sheikhzadegan, Amir

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; Notes on Transliteration; Introduction; Part I: Main Intellectual Trends; Intellectuals and Society in Iran since 1953; The Trajectory of the 1953 Military Coup and the Course of Liberal Islam in Iran: A Sociological Analysis; Constructing and Deconstructing Othering: Polycentrism versus Westoxication in Iran; Part II: The Voices of the Less Visible; Insurmountable Hurdles to the Countering of Patriarchal Gender Discourse under a Clerical Oligarchy? …”
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Quest for a suitable past : myth and memory in Central and Eastern Europe

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Claudia-Florentina Dobre -- An obscure object of desire : the myth of Alba Iulia and its social functions, 1918-1940 / Gábor Egry -- Croatia between the myths of the nation-state and of the common European past / Neven Budak -- Deconstructing the myth of the "wicked German" in northern and western parts of Poland : local approaches to cultural heritage / Izabela Skórzynska and Anna Wachowiak -- Mythologizing the biographies of Romanian underground communists : the case study of Miron Constantinescu / Stefan Bosomitu -- Women in the Communist Party : debunking a (post- )communist mythology / Luciana-Marioara Jinga -- Avatars of the social imaginary : myths about Romanian communism after 1989 / Claudia-Florentina Dobre -- Post-communist politics of memory and the new regime of historiography : recent controversies on the memory of the "Forty-five years of the communist yoke" and the "Myth of Batak" / Liliana Deyanova -- The phenomenon of "parahistory" in post-communist Bulgaria : old theories and new myths on proto-Bulgarians / Alexander Nikolov.…”
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American Indian Ethnic Renewal : Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture. by Nagel, Joane

Table of Contents: “…Constructing Culture; 3. Deconstructing Ethnicity; PART II: RED POWER AND THE RESURGENCE OF INDIAN IDENTITY; 4. …”
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Sure road? : nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique

Table of Contents: “…Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction: Thinking about Nationalisms & Nations in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique; I Anticolonialism & Nationalism: Deconstructing Synonymy, Investigating Historical Processes. …”
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Resistance and revolution : Vaclav Havel's Czechoslovakia / Resistance & revolution by McRae, Robert Grant

Table of Contents: “…-- 23 A Communist Intermezzo -- 24 Alexander Dubcek -- 25 The General Strike -- 26 The Regime Strikes Back -- 27 The Government of National Understanding -- 28 Thomas Bata's Homecoming -- 29 The Campaign for President -- 30 The Deconstruction of Communism -- 31 President Havel -- 32 The Canadian Connection -- 33 Human Bridges -- 34 A New/Old Political System -- 35 The Economic Challenge -- 36 The Rebirth of Party Politics…”
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Nation-building : a key concept for peaceful conflict transformation?

Table of Contents: “…Violent conflicts, conflict prevention, and nation-building : terminology and political concepts / Jochen Hippler -- Globalisation and nation-building : not a contradicition in terms / Rainer Tetzlaff -- Democratisation and nation-building in "divided societies" / Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka -- Shaping the nation : ideological aspects of nation-building / Claudia Derichs -- Deconstruction of states as an opportunity for new statism? …”
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Anxious allegiances : legitimizing identity in the early Canadian long poem by Mazoff, C. D. (Chaim David), 1949-

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State Structure, Policy Formation and Economic Development in Southeast Asia : the Political Economy of Thailand and the Philippines. by Raquiza, Antoinette R.

Table of Contents: “…State Structure, PolicyFormation, and EconomicDevelopment in Southeast AsiaThe political economy of Thailand andthe Philippines; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Introduction: institutional settings of state power and the policy process; The state in changing development contexts; Policymaking in the ASEAN-4 countries; The case studies; 2 Patterns of economic growth: narratives and realities; Open markets, rents, and industrial development; Deconstructing dominant narratives; Two tales of economic collapse and survival; Conclusion.…”
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Twenty theses on politics by Dussel, Enrique D.

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The peasant in postsocialist China : history, politics, and capitalism by Day, Alexander F.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Peasants, history, and politics -- 1 The peasantry and social stagnation: the roots of the reform-era liberal narrative -- The revolutionary peasant dialectic -- Petty-bourgeois peasant conservatism and the critique of agrarian socialism at the beginning of the reform era -- Peasant dependency and the Asiatic state -- Suzhi, peasants, and technocracy -- Conclusion -- 2 From peasant to citizen: liberal narratives on peasant dependency -- Peasants and the history of modernization -- Populism and the politics of modernization -- Primitive accumulation -- Conclusion -- 3 Capitalism and the peasant: new-left narratives -- Institutional innovation: TVEs and the emergence of the new left -- Conclusion -- 4 "Deconstructing modernization": Wen Tiejun and "sannong wenti" -- Wen Tiejun and the emergence of "sannong wenti" -- History and sannong wenti -- Contemporary rural crisis and market dominance -- Formalism and substantivism in China? …”
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Twenty theses on politics by Dussel, Enrique D.

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Militarism and Israeli society

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- From "obligatory militarism" to "contractual militarism" : competing models of citizenship / Yagil Levy, Edna Lomsky-Feder, and Noa Harel -- Shadow lands: the use of land resources for security needs in Israel / Amiram Oren -- "The battle over our homes": reconstructing/deconstructing sovereign practices around Israel's separation barrier on the West Bank / Yuval Feinstein and Uri Ben-Eliezer -- The debate over the defense budget in Israel / Zalam F. …”
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Syria from reform to revolt. / Political economy and international relations

Table of Contents: “…President and Party in Post-Ba'thist Syria -- From the Struggle for "Reform" to Regime Deconstruction / Raymond Hinnebusch -- 3. Locating the "Social" in the Social Market Economy / Samer N. …”
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Puerto Rican jam : rethinking colonialism and nationalism

Table of Contents: “…Santiago-Valles -- Narrating the tropical pharmacy / José Quiroga -- Deconstructing Puerto Ricanness through sexuality: female counternarratives on Puerto Rican identity, 1894-1934 / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel -- "So we decided to come and ask you ourselves": the 1928 U.S. …”
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Syria from reform to revolt. / Political economy and international relations

Table of Contents: “…President and Party in Post-Ba'thist Syria -- From the Struggle for "Reform" to Regime Deconstruction / Raymond Hinnebusch -- 3. Locating the "Social" in the Social Market Economy / Samer N. …”
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Brookings big ideas for America

Table of Contents: “…Iraq and a policy proposal for the next administration / Kenneth M. Pollack -- 34. Deconstruction Syria : a confederal approach / Michael E. …”
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The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey : From Protest to Resistance. by Gunes, Cengiz

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: the Kurdish question in Turkey; 1. Deconstructing Kurdish identity and nationalism in academic discourses; Introduction; The Kurds and the Kurdish question in Turkey: conflict analysis and political history literature; The Kurdish movement and the PKK as a case study; Conclusion; 2. …”
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Negotiating an Anglophone identity : a study of the politics of recognition and representation in Cameroon by Konings, Piet

Table of Contents: “…STRATEGIES OF THE BIYA GOVERNMENT TO DECONSTRUCT THE ANGLOPHONE IDENTITY -- Trivialisation and demonisation of the Anglophone problem -- Divide and rule -- The establishment of direct and indirect control over the mass media -- Repression -- Conclusion -- 6. …”
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The failure of the two-state solution : the prospects of one state in the Israel-Palestine conflict

Table of Contents: “…/ Nancy Murray -- Ideologies and the idea of a historic settlement. Deconstructing the Zionist settler narrative and constructing an alternative / Gabriel Piterberg ; In the golden age of Constantinian Judaism : the future of the indigenous Jewish prophetic : Israel, ethnic particularism and universalist values / Marc H. …”

Brookings big ideas for America

Table of Contents: “…Iraq and a policy proposal for the next administration / Kenneth M. Pollack -- 34. Deconstruction Syria : a confederal approach / Michael E. …”
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The making of a European President by Peñalver García, Nereo, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Media And Communication: Something Is Different This Time -- Notes : Chapter Six -- PART VII: DECONSTRUCTING THE RESULTS -- Notes : Chapter Seven -- PART VIII: THE LADY IS FOR TURNING (1) OR HOW THE BATTLE WAS WON -- BOX -- Notes : Chapter Eight -- PART IX: AN EXPERIENCE TO BE REPEATED? …”
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Post-Soviet Armenia : the New National Elite and the New National Narrative. by Ghaplanyan, Irina

Table of Contents: “…Profiling Kocharyanâ#x80;#x99;s elites: NK war veterans, Soviet- and Western-educated technocrats, Diaspora representatives and oligarchs, 1998â#x80;#x93;2008Profiling Sargsyanâ#x80;#x99;s elites: political nomads, 2008â#x80;#x93;16 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Constructing and deconstructing the national narrative -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing national identity and national interest -- Constructing the concepts: the role of elites -- Armenian â#x80;#x98;imagined communityâ#x80;#x99; -- Across the millennia -- Soviet â#x80;#x98;acculturationâ#x80;#x99; -- The nation state or nation and state?…”
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