New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Pathways
A Study of Six Post-Communist Countries
edited by Lars Johannsen and Karin Hilmar
Political and economic developments after the implosion of the Soviet Union have not been easy, nor have outcomes
been similar. The different trajectories of political development in post-communist countries are traced through cases from
within the post-communist region that exhibit maximum variation in terms of both background variables and outcome. Six
countries – Kazakhstan, Georgia, Estonia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Poland – have been selected. Following the
Tocquevillian tradition, a ‘method’ of indirect comparison where in-depth knowledge of a country based on linguistics and
history is held up against existing concepts, six country specialists have drawn broad pictures of what characterizes ‘their’
country in terms of political and economic reform, state building and nation building, at the same time placing developments
within the international context.
172p, paperback, 9788779344341, $29.00, Aarhus University Press, August 2009.
Distinktion 16 – Scandinavian
Journal of Social Theory (2008)
Special issue:
The Technologies of Politics
edited by Kristin Asdal,
Christian Borch and Ingunn Moser
Contents: On Politics and the Little Tools of
Democracy: A Down-to-Earth Approach;
The Making of Climate Publics: Eco-homes
as Material Devices of Publicity; Foam
City; Culling, Catastrophe, and Collectivity;
Governing Nonhumans: Knowledge, Sanitation and Discipline in the Late 19th
and Early 20th-Century British Milk Trade; Balancing Fish: A Meeting between
Food Safety and Nutrition in an Assessment of Benefits and Risk; A Perfect
Innovation Engine: The Rise of the Talent World.
200p, paperback, 9788779343368, $20.00, Aarhus University Press, December 2008.
Small States and the Challenge of Globalisation
Governance, Institutions, and Identities
edited by Michael Böss
In the 1990s, neo-liberalist theorists argued that the global market forced the
public sector into retreat and made extensive welfare programs unaffordable.
Today, we know that welfare systems combined with a flexible labor market
may contribute to economic growth. Having learned from the financial crisis of
2008-09, we also know that strong states and well-functioning public sectors are
crucial to meeting the challenges and reaping the fruits of globalization. We have
also learned to see globalisation as a complex of processes that interact with local
conditions and social capabilities, i.e. institutional structures, social and cultural
capital, policy learning processes, etc.
288p, paperback, 9788779344921, $48.00, Aarhus University Press, December 2009.
Global Experience Industries
by Jens Christensen
social sciences
Imagining Terrorism
The Rhetoric and Representation of
Political Violence in Italy 1969–2009
edited by Pierpaolo Antonello
and Alan O’Leary
No other European country experienced the
disruption of political and everyday life suffered
by Italy in the so-called ‘years of lead’
(1969–c.1983), when there were more than
12,000 incidents of terrorist violence. This experience
affected all aspects of Italian cultural
life, shaping political, judicial and everyday language as well as artistic representation
of every kind. In this innovative and broad-ranging study, experts from the fields
of philosophy, history, media, law, cinema, theater and literary studies trace how the
experience and legacies of terrorism have determined the form and content of Italian
cultural production and shaped the country’s way of thinking about such events.
200p, hardback, 9781906540487, $89.50, Maney Publishing, August 2009,
Legenda Italian Perspectives 18.
The experience economy is a fourth economic field different from commodities,
goods and services. Experiences are an economic value added to a product or identical
with the product. Since the 1990s, demand for experience-based products such
as tourism, sports, film, music and other contents of media and interactive technologies
has increased. In all developed countries and increasingly on a global scale, a
series of expanding industries have emerged to supply the market with experienceoriented
goods. In this book, the business development of markets and industries is
covered from tourism, to media and entertainment, and from design to sex, including
leading companies and trends in all industries involved.
427p, paperback, 9788779344327, $64.00, Aarhus University Press, August 2009.
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