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International Journal of Politics Culture and Society Volume 19 Issue 2

Subject Areas: Political Science and International Relations
Publisher: Springer US - Springer Journals
ISSN: 0891-4486
SJR: 27

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Introduction

Goldfarb, Jeffrey

2007 "International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society"

doi:10.1007/s10767-007-9018-0
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Islam and Toleration: Studying the Ottoman Imperial Model

Barkey, Karen

2007 "International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society"

doi:10.1007/s10767-007-9013-5

This article explores the relationship between religion and politics in the context of the recent debates on Islam and religious fundamentalism. I argue that too much attention is paid to the theological issues of Islam, and that we should rather focus on the historical conditions that tend to...
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Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Bifurcation of Israel

Ram, Uri

2007 "International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society"

doi:10.1007/s10767-007-9016-2

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are the two large and important cities of Israel.1 Jerusalem, situated on the crest of the Judea mountains is the religiously sanctified and official capital of the state of Israel. Tel Aviv, situated on the shore of the Mediterranean, is the business and social...
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Jelly’s Place: An Ethnographic Memoir

Anderson, Elijah

2007 "International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society"

doi:10.1007/s10767-007-9014-4

This is a report of a field experience in retrospect. An ethnographic study of black streetcorner men, it was conducted in the early 1970s among the patrons of Jelly’s Place, a bar and liquor store on the South Side of Chicago. The 55 men came repeatedly to Jelly’s corner and created a local...
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Why Theater? Sociological Reflections on Art and Freedom, and the Politics of Small Things

Goldfarb, Jeffrey

2007 "International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society"

doi:10.1007/s10767-007-9011-7

In this paper using reflections on a dramatic moment in the life of the author’s ethnographic study of theater in Poland as a starting point, the relationship between art and politics is analyzed. The relationship between two central propositions is explored, leading to a conclusion: (1) Cultural...
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Critical Social Theory and the Contemporary World

Postone, Moishe

2007 "International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society"

doi:10.1007/s10767-007-9012-6

The far-reaching historical transformations of recent decades, including the decline of the Keynesian/Fordist organization of polity and economy in the West, the collapse of party-state command economies in the East, and the emergence of a neo-liberal capitalist global order, suggest that...
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“Globalization” as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere*

Alexander, Jeffrey

2007 "International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society"

doi:10.1007/s10767-007-9017-1

This article proposes both a more cultural and a more sober-minded understanding of “globalization”. Recent discussions should be viewed as more aspirational than empirically descriptive. With the end of Cold War polarization, idealistic theories from Giddens to Beck have created the collective...
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Rehabilitating the Importance of the Non-cognitive: An Interview with Michèle Lamont

Lalaki, Despina

2007 "International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society"

doi:10.1007/s10767-007-9015-3

In spring of 2006, Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, was invited to give a lecture for the New Sociological Imagination Lecture Series, organized by the New School for Social Research. This lecture concerned her book Cream...

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