Power and Inequality (eBook, PDF)

Critical Readings for a New Era
Redaktion: Chorbajian, Levon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

With strong integration of race and gender throughout, this new edition of Chorbajian's Power and Inequality offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives, including Marxism, feminism, critical race theory, postmodernism, and power structure theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351782234
• Artikelnr.: 61576978

Autorenporträt

Levon Chorbajian is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is a two-time Fulbright Senior lecturer in the Republic of Armenia and the Soviet Union. His research interests center around political sociology and comparative genocide studies, with an emphasis on the Armenian Genocide. Key concepts for Chorbajian are class, power, and inequality. He has written, translated, and edited seven books including, The Caucasian Knot, Armenia in Crisis, The Making of Nagorno-Karabakh, Studies in Comparative Genocide and Power: A Critical Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
That's What They Call Democracy: Capitalism, Democracy & the State
Section I. Critical Theories of Power
The Fetishism of Commodities
The New Forms of Control
Hegemony
The Body of the Condemned
Race and Culture
Women as the Subjects of Feminism
Section II. The State: Theory
The State as Superstructure
Defining the Class Dominance View
A Feminist Theory of the State
Racial Politics and the Racial State
Domhoff, Mills, and Slow Power
Section III. The State: Practice
The Politics of Income and Wealth Inequality
A Right to the City? Race, Class, and Neoliberalism in Post-Katrina New
Orleans
Voter Suppression: The Attack on Rights
The Construction of Consent
Pacification and the Police: A Critique of the Police Militarization Thesis
Section IV. Media and Ideology
Manufacturing Consent
Still Manufacturing Consent
Yellow Ribbons and Spat-Upon Veterans: Making Soldiers the Means and Ends
of War
News for All the People
The Future of Inequality: Polarization, Gridlock, and Global Warming
Section V. The Nation-State and the Global Economy
The Making of Global Capitalism
The Multipolar Moment
The New Imperialism
The Twin Towers as Metaphor
Section VI. War, Genocide, and Repression
War Making and State Making as Organized Crime 243
Getting Away with Murder (Almost): A Genocide Primer
The New Jim Crow
Section VII. Revolution and Social Movements
The Structuring of Protest
Revolution Against the Revolution
Wing Populism in America
Noam Chomsky and Charles Derber - Interview