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Michael Shapiro has been one of the most important thinkers and writers over the past two decades whose work has been extremely influential in fields as varied as political theory…
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Sam Okoth Opondo, Michael J. Shapiro
This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today's apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen…
Michael J. Shapiro
Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry through a series of violence-themed inquiries that emphasize forms of writing as the vehicles for politically…
Drawing on and engaging with a wide range of political and philosophical theory, as well as a numerous films from established classics like the Deer Hunter and the Fog of…
In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an effective research…
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This volume, by Michael Shapiro, is not about Adam Smith in the sense in which about is usually understood, for it is neither a comprehensive explication of his views nor…
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This book has two aims: to offer a series of investigations into aspects of contemporary politics such as race, nation and gender; and to articulate a critical philosophical perspective with…
Throughout the 20th century, a scientifically oriented social science has dominated as the means for looking at society. This text examines and critiques one of the primary deployments of these…
The highly anticipated new edition of Michael J. Shapiro’s Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to American historical imagination from the founding to the present using disparate disciplines and…
Throughout the 20th century, a scientifically oriented social science has dominated as the means for looking at society. This text examines an explanatory comparative politics whose major focus has been…
Presuming that the problem of political equality, as it bears on both persons and assemblages, is about being accorded access to the material and symbolic resources needed to manage an…
What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood? In this wide…
Michael J. Shapiro formulates a new politics of aesthetics by analyzing the experience of the sublime as rendered by a number of artistic and cultural texts that deal with race…
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Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public…
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Michael J. Shapiro examines how the use of punctuation-conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artistic genres engage with intelligibility-in art…
By affirming the relativity of the American historical imagination, political theorist Michael J. Shapiro demonstrates how history, architecture, film, music, literature, and art are valuable resources that help us comprehend…
Providing an investigation of contemporary politics, this text articulates a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema. It demonstrates what it means to think the political in…
Under the banner of family values, a war of more than words is being waged. At stake is the control of contemporary national culture-and the consciousness of succeeding generations. Michael…
Michael Shapiro
This groundbreaking and innovative text demonstrates how method can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.
Engaging with critical theory, poststructuralist perspectives, cultural studies, film theory and urban studies, the book provides stunning insights into the micropolitics of ethnicity, identity, security, subjectivity and sovereignty.
Professor Michael J. Shapiro
In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief, the renowned philosopher Michael J. Shapiro investigates how art - and in particular literature and film - can impact upon both traditional interpretations and…
This edited volume collects a number of essays which propose and examine different though related critical responses to modern cultures of war among other cultural practices of statecraft.
This work is a critical intervention into the archive of female identity; it reflects on the ways in which the Central and Eastern European female ideal was constructed, represented, and…
Issues a stern warning about the risks of speaking, writing, and thinking in a manner too confident about one’s own judgments and asks, Can a clear line be drawn between…
Professor Michael J. Shapiro (University of Hawai'i, Manoa, USA)
To understand the historical complexity of the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderland, this book brings together some of the foremost thinkers of this borderland and seeks to approach its various problematic dimensions.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings…
This book explores the impact of globalisation on national sovereignty through reading of humanitarian intervention, human rights discourses, securitisation, refugees, the fragmentation of identities, and development practices.
Globalization inevitably turns to questions of sovereignty. This book explores the changes through readings of humanitarian intervention, human rights discourses, securitization, refugees, the fragmentation of identities and the practices of…
Michael J. Graetz,Ian Shapiro
Unravels the following mystery: how is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of…
Americans face economic hardship but respond with fantastical solutions, from tax-cut magic to the end of capitalism. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro focus on what truly worries people: their own…
Kalman J Kaplan
While meaning and purpose are often seen as synonymous, this book argues that they sometimes are in opposition, the search for meaning at times suicidal, and living with purpose life-enhancing…
