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Book Cover for: The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, James C. Scott

The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia

James C. Scott
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Just saw, in a paper, the sentence "politics is understood as embedded within social relations," and then they provide a citation, and the citation is James C. Scott's *The Moral Economy of The Peasant*. what is going on there

Paperback, 1977

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Book Cover for: Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, Ulrich Beck

Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity

Ulrich Beck
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@warendenkform this is a left field question but i'm presently fighting my way through Risk Society -- do you happen to have any thoughts or recommended english sources on ulrich beck?

Paperback, 1992

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Book Cover for: To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change, Alfred W. McCoy

To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change

Alfred W. McCoy
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In "To Govern the Globe" the historian Alfred McCoy makes a case that any day now China will definitively seize the mantle of hegemon, and that a Taiwan blockade met by US belligerence could force a decision dillema on the rest of the world that would hasten the process https://t.co/75tHQ8vpiZ

Paperback, 2023

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Parecon: Life After Capitalism, Michael Albert

Parecon: Life After Capitalism

Michael Albert
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Struck by the ways this resonates with Michael Albert's mildly crackpot-flavored Parecon concept of a nested-networks economy https://t.co/qyUfCACgwX https://t.co/3V9uoNbLN2

Paperback, 2010

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Book Cover for: Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, Dean Spade

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

Dean Spade
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this is me with dean spade's *normal life*, constantly

Paperback, 2015

$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book