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Elke Krasny's book, "Living with an Infected Planet: COVID-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care," explores the connection between care crises and global crises, such as health, ecological, epistemological, and ethical crises. Krasny analyzes the use of war metaphors and militarized versions of care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the absence of public imaginaries of care. She also examines feminist recovery plans that center on intersectionality and the interlocking devaluation of class, caste, race, gender, sexualities, and the environment. Krasny argues for a new care feminism that recognizes care as planetary and emphasizes interconnectedness and interdependencies. [Extracted from the article]

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Chapter 5, the final substantive chapter, on the Neoplatonic protreptics of Iamblichus, Themistius, and Boethius, contains a complete summary of Iamblichus's I Protrepticus i in which Markovich helpfully identifies the protreptic sources from which Iamblichus draws. Promoting a New Kind of Education: Greek and Roman Philosophical Protreptic By Daniel Markovich. [Extracted from the article]

The work also updates many of the earlier studies on cognate subjects by the author, especially on the sermons and speeches by 'Ali b. Abi Talib who is generally considered to be the epitome of oratory eloquence. Art and Function, written by Tahera Qutbuddin Still, it is worth noting that an inaccurate translation is given with respect to a poetic illustration that is incorrectly attributed to the pre-Islamic I u'luk i 'Amr b. Barraq and allegedly cited by the awe-inspiring governor al- ajjaj b. Yusuf (136). [Extracted from the article]

De Cillia, Rudolf Wodak, Ruth Rheindorf, Markus Lehner, Sabine 2020 Österreichische Identitäten im Wandel: Empirische Untersuchungen zu ihrer diskursiven Konstruktion 1995-2015 Springer For many years, Rudolf de Cillia, Ruth Wodak and their various co-authors have advanced scholarship on the discursive processes underpinning national identities in at least two ways: first, through their empirical expertise on Austria informed by longitudinal studies of the shifts Austrian self-understandings have undergone against the backdrop of changing political parameters since the 1990s. Similarly, de Cillia, Wodak, Rheindorf and Lehner offer valuable analytical blueprints (pp. 218f.; 231) for how the systematic and deepening associative connections between argumentative structures, premises and discursive "strands" can be assessed. What is more, de Cillia and Wodak are also significant public intellectuals who have taken part in political discussions in Austria, yet who - admirably - have done so without ever compromising the complexity and rigour of their scholarship. [Extracted from the article]

I do suspect however that Leddy-Owen is by temperament more circumspect about any such over-corrective vis-à-vis nationalism's more established, minimalist claim to being - i.e. a politics of belonging that aspires for the state to be "congruent" (Gellner, [2], 1) with the nation as already construed. For instance, other proverbially "left behind" ("overlooked" being Leddy-Owen's preferred term) participants were often stridently anti-nationalist and remained vocally critical of how nationalism acts as a form of "false consciousness" that betrays the realities of class politics and hardship. In sum, his book is a reckoning with a provincial place that still allows for the alternatives to nationalism to be credibly scoped; a reminder that whilst nationalism enjoys an enduring reach, it is not a given and we should not be resigned to it. [Extracted from the article]

With Donaghy himself casting Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, as "the principal human agent of change" in ending the Cold War, U.S. domestic politics alone clearly is not the entire story (p. 286). Aaron Donaghy's I The Second Cold War i takes on what is commonly perceived as a particularly sharp break in U.S. presidential leadership, from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan. Donaghy covers a great deal of ground in I The Second Cold War i , spanning two highly eventful presidential administrations and a period of the Cold War that is all too often misunderstood. [Extracted from the article]

Contrary to the discourse of the state, the counter narrative of Taliban against the state again seeks its roots in Islamo-masculinity. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021 ISBN: 9780520336797 (hbk), xii, 270 pp reviewed by Asad Khalid and Muhammad Safdar Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan by Shenila Khoja-Moolji examines nuanced and complicated imbrications of masculinity and Muslimness and affective politics in Pakistan. First, the Taliban have widespread legitimacy; second they are violent actors, and third, they aspire to control territory, mimic the state in many different ways and even provide an alternate version of a system of government while resisting the state and proving themselves as de facto sovereignty. [Extracted from the article]

Incorporating many theories concerning populism without prioritizing any of them, the volume examines populism around the world through a range of approaches and perspectives. The study reveals that although all the parties demonstrate an intention to relate themselves to the Scottish national identity in their manifestos, it is the Scottish National Party (SNP) that evidences a much stronger populist materialization. Encompassing different populist frameworks and data, this volume is valuable both in relating some of the significant findings to previous studies on populism and in providing new insight to the key notions of populist discourse. [Extracted from the article]

Iginio Gagliardone explores in this book the process of technology adoption and adaptation of Information and Communication Technologies in Africa. To begin, one needs to understand the type of Government that has led Ethiopia and its politics to understand Ethiopian Technopolitics. These regimes include the international technopolitical regime, diaspora technopolitical regime and local civil society technopolitical regimes. [Extracted from the article]

At the time of elections, parties and candidates present their policy choices to the voters in the form of commitments or pledges in their election programmes, also known as manifestos. The book finds that 60 percent of all the pledges made by governing parties are subsequently fulfilled, and the pledges made by opposition parties are less likely to be fulfilled than the pledges made by the governing parties (p. 66). Also, incumbent parties pledge more often to maintain the status quo on policies than opposition parties or parties which have never held any government offices (p. 49). [Extracted from the article]

Cameron, Deborah. and Shaw, Sylvia. Cameron, Deborah Shaw, Sylvia 2016 Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-137-58751-0 In the third chapter, Cameron and Shaw explore the representation of the leaders in the media and how the media reported on the women's performances within the debates. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship," by Lawrence Mead.

Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland i (Routledge, 2018), is perhaps the first scholarly work that conceptualises a recent form of nationalism as developed in Western Europe, one that the author refers to as the "nationalism of the rich". In fact, while the approach taken by Delle Mulle is mainly historical (albeit enriched with an array of statistic and economic data), the volume invites to explore the "nationalism of the rich" from other perspectives. For purposes of a "nationalism of the rich" narrative, however, Northern Italy mainly coincides with the regions of Lombardia and Veneto. [Extracted from the article]

Narratives in the Making: Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present: by Anselma Gallinat, New York, Berghahn Publishers, 2016, 242 pp., 3 illus., bibliog., index 120.00/£85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-78533-798-7 The body of literature that calls itself "the anthropology of democracy" has, I belief, not had the traction it should have given the threats that liberal democracies face worldwide. Gallinat updates and expands previous accounts of East German memory work and develops two powerful strategies to navigate her own way through this complex terrain. [Extracted from the article]

He puts forward an interesting option, namely that platforms could identify "hotspots" through which hate speech usually passes, applying specific rules, without concentrating on the single hatred and the single piece of content. The book assesses the interrelation between the digital environment, political hatred online and network characteristics w0fhich facilitate the diffusion of political hate speech. In light of the above, and although there is space for a further look into the use of automation and "hubs", this book is relevant for persons from a wide range of fields, who want to learn more about online political hate speech in Europe or who already study the subject and wish to broaden their knowledge of it. [Extracted from the article]

Exilic anticolonial elites, best exemplified by but not always subordinate to Syngman Rhee, made their nationalistic claims to Korean sovereignty legible to American publics through an optic of American exceptionalism. In I Foreign Friends i , David P. Fields provides a detailed study of how Syngman Rhee attempted to shape US-Korean relations through public advocacy and congressional lobbying from the early to mid-twentieth century. In addition, Rhee couched his anticolonial lobbying in pragmatic terms, providing arguments that presaged later rationales for America's Cold War containment doctrine. [Extracted from the article]