A study of hegeomy and the world-system from the premodern to the present. Contributors include Thomas Reifer and Giovanni Arrighi.

Offers an understanding of the roles that culture plays in peacekeeping's success or failure. This work shows that cultural considerations are key elements at all levels of peacekeeping operations. It demonstrates how questions of power, identity, and political perception emerge from the cultural context of peacekeeping.

Offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary society and its impact on the construction of social and political life.

An exploration of globalization and its effect on resistance movements all over the world.

Wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural and political work of the writer Irving Howe.

The first English translation of Paulo Freire's last book on education. '...[E]nriches and extends the marvelous legacy he has left us...' Noam Chomsky

A history of US civic works, including an analysis of how they might solve the economic, infrastructure and environmental crises.

Takes the study of international relations to the art museum. This book focuses on the British Museum, the National Gallery of London, the Museum of Iraq, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty museums, the Guggenheim museums, and 'museum' spaces instantly created by the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma. This book argues that the performative nature of the TRC effectively designated the past as profane and put a sacred community based on democratic idealism and universal solidarity.

Analyses the intellectual and policy errors that have led us into crisis and sketches a new paradigm for risk management and market structure.

Explores what a Barack Obama presidency would look like, based on his personal beliefs and record as a senator.

Critics claim that science, including social science, is 'merely a social construction' that fallible humans have created with words and other symbols. This title explains why the edifice of science has robust properties that make it one of the most useful forms of knowledge that humans have ever created, although it is not perfect.

Over the past two hundred years, work experiences have changed greatly, causing issues such as heightened boredom and alienation, and but also new levels of obsession with work. This book looks at the modern changes in work, examining global patterns but also special features of the work culture in the United States.

Traces Oprah Winfrey's cultural impact and illustrates the parallels between her road to fame and fortune and the political-economic rise of neoliberalism.