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    <copyright>Copyright 2009. Polity</copyright>
    <pubDate>31/07/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Do Asian Americans matter?</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=63</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The 2010 midterm elections may have a critical impact on Barack Obama’s political future. What role will Asian Americans play in shaping the President Obama’s fate?Almost twenty years ago, Don Nakanishi suggested that Asian Americans could become an important swing vote in California. More recently, S.B. Woo formed “80-20,” a group trying to get Asian Americans to vote as a bloc to increase their  ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=63">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>29/06/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Jenny Shaw on Shopping</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=62</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Shopping: meaningful or meaningless? It is the activity on which we in the rich nations spend most time after work and sleep, and the favourite soft target for the commentariat who regularly argue that shopping is more than emblematic of a ‘hollowed out’ society and is actually destroying the social fabric of modern ‘consumer’ societies. Modern societies are consumer societies, as well as producer ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=62">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>04/06/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Andrew Leach on Architectural History</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=58</link>
      <description><![CDATA[What is Architectural History? is organized by five chapters. The first positions modern, academic architectural history (the architectural history of Wölfflin, Gurlitt, Riegl and their contemporaries) as a disciplinary inheritance of four traditions for knowing architecture as a past field. These are the presentation of architectural history in the architectural treatise, as part of the architect ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=58">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>28/04/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Colin Barnes on the new edition of 'Exploring Disability'</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=57</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A decade ago, a socio/political or ‘social model’ of disability – inspired by an understanding of the economic, political and social deprivations encountered by people with accredited impairments and labelled ‘disabled’ – was hardly visible within mainstream sociology and related disciplines. Today it stands centre stage alongside sociological explanations of racism, sexism, heterosexism and other ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=57">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>23/04/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Explaining the Normative</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=52</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The biggest buzzword in contemporary philosophy is normativity. Volume after volume has been churned out defending the idea that normativity is real, indispensable, even the single metaphysical basis for everything, including nature. The past of philosophy, especially Kant and German idealism, has been reinterpreted as being about normativity. Wittgenstein has been made into a defender of normativ ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=52">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>24/03/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Death and Dying in America by  Andrea Fontana and Jennifer Reid Keene</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=51</link>
      <description><![CDATA[As we write this blog we are coping with the aftermath of the tragedy in Haiti. The latest count is an estimated 230,000 deaths and rising.  Haiti happened too late to be included in our book but it reflects its scope--trying to understand and explain who dies, how we die, what happens after we die, and how do we cope with death.  We clearly saw the social implications of death in Haiti, as the po ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=51">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>19/03/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Jane Fuller on the new revised Ed. of Davies &amp; Green's Global Financial Regulation</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=49</link>
      <description><![CDATA[With all the hand-wringing that goes on over financial regulation, you would think that books on the subject would be two a penny. Surprisingly, they are not. So, Howard Davies’s and David Green’s book, Global Financial Regulation, remains an essential guide. This is despite the fact that, as they write in the Update, “Time seems to have speeded up in the world of financial regulation” since the f ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=49">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>26/02/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Molefi Kete Asante on Philosopher Maulana Karenga</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=47</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Maulana Karenga is an important American cultural philosopher and one of the leading proponents of the cultural reconstruction thesis for African Americans. His key writings, based upon his studies of African cultural and philosophical history, treat the classical bases for re-interpreting the social behavior of people whose cultures have been crushed by oppression. In effect, Karenga is an ethici ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=47">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>19/02/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Richard Lachmann on States and Power.</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=46</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Financial crisis, environmental crisis and terrorism are all taken as signs of the weakness and increasingly irrelevancy of states. Capital, ecological disasters and terrorisms seemingly cross borders with impunity. In fact, citizenship remains one of the most important determinants of someone’s life chances. Stand at the U.S.-Mexican border, at the wall dividing Israel and the Palestinian territo ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=46">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>17/02/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Empathy: The Real Invisible Hand of the Market Place  By Jeremy Rifkin</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=44</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The anemic global economic recovery is beginning to stall. Unemployment is shooting up again. The housing market is threatened by a new wave of foreclosures. Tens of millions of Americans are teetering on the edge of survival. Public surveys show that people on Main Street are fast loosing trust in Wall Street and the workings of the market. What’s gone wrong? The economists have a difficult time  ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=44">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>08/02/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Luke Martell on Globalization after Copenhagen and the Financial Crisis</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=42</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Sociology of Globalization discusses dimensions of globalization from media and identity to migration and social movements, from history to theories. It also argues that environment, economics and politics are things that any sociologist who aspires to understand society needs to pay attention to. These dimensions affect society. They are not outside it. Recent developments such as the Copenha ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=42">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>29/01/2010</pubDate>
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      <title> John Brewer on the need for a sociological approach to peace processes</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=41</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Over fifty people were killed in the Johannesburg area in 2009. This seems unsurprising given that it considered the murder capital of the world. The fifty or so people to whom I refer, however, are different: they were economic migrants from neighbouring states, drawn to South Africa by its status as rainbow nation and by the prospect of work. The display of very magnanimous forgiveness South Afr ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=41">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>27/01/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Patrik Wikström on 'The Music Industry'</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=38</link>
      <description><![CDATA[More than ten years have passed since Shawn Fanning and friends released the file-sharing software "Napster" to the world and thereby kick-started one of the most radical transformations of the multinational music industry.Today, young music listeners no longer put on a CD then they party and it is actually also becoming less common that they play MP3s from their computers or iPods. Rather, the yo ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=38">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>18/01/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>David Halpern on his new book 'The Hidden Wealth of Nations'</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=37</link>
      <description><![CDATA[For this blog post,  I thought I’d set out the bones of the argument in my new book The Hidden Wealth of Nations. I certainly found it interesting to revisit some of the big questions that in government there’s rarely the luxury of time to examine very deeply, rolling up my statistical sleeves to wade into data sets and literatures around public concerns, well-being, social policy, inequality and  ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=37">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>14/01/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Polity author Frederick Wasser on Spielberg</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=36</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Is Steven Spielberg a better political filmmaker than his peers?Surprisingly, yes.Steven Spielberg has managed to show that the most successful film director in the history of popular culture is capable of engaging history - but not quite as he pleases. He has done so to a greater degree than his fellow film entertainers. Scorsese, the “thoughtful” American director, has not been as political as S ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=36">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>13/01/2010</pubDate>
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      <title>Professor Molly Rothenberg on her new book The Excessive Subject</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=29</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On the EdgeEdged in:  I decided to write this book when it became clear to me that a new theory of the social subject, with some powerful advantages for social change theory, had become sequestered within a small area in the academy simply because it was associated with psychoanalysis.  It turns out that the theory of the excessive subject, as I term it, depends on developments in the fields of sy ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=29">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>18/12/2009</pubDate>
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      <title>Professor Oliver Leaman on the new second edition of his classic text</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=28</link>
      <description><![CDATA[When I was asked to prepare a second edition of my Brief Introduction to Islamic Philosophy I wondered what needed to be added to the existing text. When I looked at the book again it seemed strange that although I emphasized that Islamic philosophy is a living part of world philosophy, I only dealt with earlier aspects of Islamic philosophy, so I thought it would not be a bad idea to have a chapt ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=28">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>04/12/2009</pubDate>
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      <title>Polityblogger on Ellis Cashmore's latest book Martin Scorsese's America</title>
      <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=27</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ “In this country, it doesn’t add inches to your dick to get a life sentence” Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) in The DepartedAmerica is a country where success is measured by how long you have to wait in line to get served. The shorter the wait, the more successful you are. This is one of the lessons Martin Scorsese teaches us.In his new book Martin Scorsese’s America, Ellis Cashmore has anatomize ...<a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/blog/post.aspx?id=27">more</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>25/11/2009</pubDate>
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