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Bad for Democracy How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People Dana D. Nelson 2010 Spring

Voting for the president is not enough—a bold call to reclaim democracy

Developing Partnerships Gender, Sexuality, and the Reformed World Bank Kate Bedford 2009 Fall

What are the actual effects of the World Bank’s “family-strengthening” policies?

Shanghai Rising State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity Xiangming Chen, Editor 2009 Spring

Analyzing a Chinese city’s dazzling rise to global megacity status

American Prophecy Race and Redemption in American Political Culture George Shulman 2008 Fall

The political meaning of prophetic language in America

Politics at the Airport Mark B. Salter, Editor 2008 Fall

Establishes the airport as a crucial site in the rise of the surveillance state

Whose Hunger? Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid Jenny Edkins 2008 Fall

An analytical look at the ways we define and respond to famine.

Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers Jeff Blodgett, Bill Lofy, Ben Goldfarb, Erik Peterson and Sujata Tejwani 2008 Fall

Not politics as usual—advanced strategy for running and winning a progressive campaign

The New Nativism Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration Robin Dale Jacobson 2008 Spring

Challenges the role of the “race card” in contemporary politics

Geopolitical Exotica Tibet in Western Imagination Dibyesh Anand 2007 Fall

Unsettles common views of “Tibetanness” while suggesting a way forward

Borderscapes Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr, Editors 2007 Fall

A multidisciplinary exploration of national borders—in theory and in practice

Revolutionaries to Race Leaders Black Power and the Making of African American Politics Cedric Johnson 2007 Fall

What happened to the revolutionary goals of the Black Power movement?

The Subject of Coexistence Otherness in International Relations Louiza Odysseos 2007 Spring

Interrogates the concept of coexistence, central to modern IR theory and praxis

Urban Imaginaries Locating the Modern City Alev Çınar and Thomas Bender, Editors 2007 Spring

New global perspectives on urban life

Toward a Global Idea of Race Denise Ferreira da Silva 2007 Spring

Breaks open the concept of race in a modern, global world.

Political Life in Cairo’s New Quarters Encountering the Everyday State Salwa Ismail 2006 Fall

Explores everyday politics in Cairo’s new urban neighborhoods

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