Demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is not opposed to or in conflict with culture. Examining the theories of Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, and more on the subject of the body, this title concludes that the body they theorize is male. Meer
"Pionierarbeit" Eduard Grimme untersucht die Konstruktion von Realitat in den Nachrichtenmedien. Er legt allerdings nicht nur einen weiteren Bericht daruber vor, wie das Realitatsangebot einer Zeitung, hier: ihres Lokaltel1s, aussieht. Meer
In this book, Professor Nicholson outlines social scientific approaches to international relations and then describes the problems of rational decision-making in conflict situations. Meer
Statism and Anarchy is a complete English translation of the last work by the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin, written in 1873. Then he assails the Marxist alternative, predicting that a 'dictatorship of the proletariat' will in fact be a dictatorship over the proletariat, and will produce a new class of socialist rulers. Meer
A world government capable of controlling nation-states has never evolved. Nonetheless, considerable governance underlies the current order among states, facilitates absorption of the rapid changes at work in the world, and that direction to the challenges posed by interstate conflicts, environmental pollution, currency crises, and the many other problems to which an ever expanding global interdependence gives rise. Meer
Traditionally the military community held the intelligence profession in low esteem, spying was seen as dirty work and information was all to often ignored if it conflicted with a commander's own view. Meer
A finely honed abridgement of Emerson's principal essays with an introduction that clarifies the essence of Emerson's ideas and establishes their relevance to our own troubled era. Meer
Women's integration into the military academies afforded an almost unique opportunity to study social change. It was a tidy, well-defined natural experiment. Meer
In this theoretically original work, two distinguished authors explore the mutual interdependence of states and firms throughout the world. They show how global structural changes - in finance, technology, knowledge and politics - often impel governments to seek the help and cooperation of managers of multinational enterprises. Meer
The author offers a discussion of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless ánd the mocking tone they display off stage: their public and hidden transcripts. Meer
'Social Dreaming' is the name given to a method of working with dreams within a gathering of people. The author describes a distinctive approach centring around the concept of "relatedness" - that is, the ways in which individual experience and behaviour reflect the conscious and unconscious constructs of the group or organisation in the mind. Meer
Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Meer
It was a delight to see that the facts of food preferences, eating, and food behavior conform in many ways to the general principles of psychology. Meer