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2001 black hardcover (no DJ )in good condition; some wear to covers, good binding, there are some pencil marks inside in margins. US media mail for shipping.Market societies have created… Mehr…

2001 black hardcover (no DJ )in good condition; some wear to covers, good binding, there are some pencil marks inside in margins. US media mail for shipping.Market societies have created more wealth, and more opportunities for more people, than any other system of social organization in history. Yet we still have a rudimentary understanding of how markets themselves are social constructions that require extensive institutional support. This groundbreaking work seeks to fill this gap, to make sense of modern capitalism by developing a sociological theory of market institutions. Addressing the unruly dynamism that capitalism brings with it, leading sociologist Neil Fligstein argues that the basic drift of any one market and its actors, even allowing for competition, is toward stabilization.The Architecture of Markets represents a major and timely step beyond recent, largely empirical studies that oppose the neoclassical model of perfect competition but provide sparse theory toward a coherent economic sociology. Fligstein offers this theory. With it he interprets not just globalization and the information economy, but developments more specific to American capitalism in the past two decades--among them, the 1980s merger movement. He makes new inroads into the ''theory of fields,'' which links the formation of markets and firms to the problems of stability. His political-cultural approach explains why governments remain crucial to markets and why so many national variations of capitalism endure. States help make stable markets possible by, for example, establishing the rule of law and adjudicating the class struggle. State-building and market-building go hand in hand.Fligstein shows that market actors depend mightily upon governments and the members of society for the social conditions that produce wealth. He demonstrates that systems favoring more social justice and redistribution can yield stable markets and economic growth as readily as less egalitarian systems. This book will surely join the classics on capitalism. Economists, sociologists, policymakers, and all those interested in what makes markets function as they do will read it for many years to come., Princeton University Press, 2001, 2.5, New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2010 This volume provides a new perspective on the role of culture in shaping the attitudes towards economic development of marginalized people both in the global North and the global South. The strength of the collection lies in the examples from within India and without, which illuminate old Dalit–Savarna and Hindu–Muslim dynamics specific to India. These also facilitate a new understanding of the processes of marginalization in northern capitalist contexts. The essays draw attention to the various modernizing forces that have rendered invisible the dynamics of cyclicity, bio-cultural regeneration, and social and ecological reproduction. The volume contrasts Western modernity and modernizing processes in India, thereby providing startlingly new insights on modernity and non-modernity in contemporary India. This enables a deeper understanding of the nature of market forces and their effect on older, non-modern social, cultural, and epistemological dynamics and practices. Through specific examples and case studies from India, Europe, and the Americas, this volume explores key issues in the fraught relationship between development and marginalization. Contributors Rafiul Ahmed ?Frédérique Apffel-Marglin ?Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp ?Rahul Ghai ?Sanjay Kumar ?Stephen A. Marglin ?Arvind Mishra ?Ajit K. Mohanty ?Ashis Nandy ?Badri Narayan ?Gail Omvedt ?Ingrid Robeyns ?Linda Tuhiwai Smith ?Betsy Taylor . First Edition. Hardcover. New/New., Oxford University Press, 2010, 6<

2010, ISBN: 9780198066415

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Paperback / softback. New. In this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican American pe… Mehr…

Paperback / softback. New. In this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican American people of faith use to cope with racism and poverty associated with colonial, capitalist, and modern social conditions. Sandell's work shows how people use story and religious ritual to create a space in their lives free from oppression., 6, New Delhi, India: MD Publications/Prints Publications, 2010. Influential historiographics of anti-colonial nationalism suggest that women's cultural identities-laid out in codes by which they belong to their kin group and share in its collective future-are determined by the male elite's contentious relationship with imperialist modernity. The implication of such studies is that the new women's investment in her people's goals of gaining freedom from racial-masculinist domination and building independent nations inhibits her ability to self-actualize and intervene in patriarchal national history. Many feminist post-colonial scholars explore ways to theorize women's agency in nationalist contexts. They also avoid Western postmodernists liberalist faith in individual agency, and the allied binary model in which feminist subjectivity is "synthesized from fusions of outsider identities" positioned on the utopian margins of masculinist-racist regimes. Instead, post-colonial feminists explore how knowledge/power work pervasively and invisibly in capitalist modernities, constituting and "enabling" every subject position-dominant, subordinate oppositional. Printed Pages: 279.. Hardcover. New/New., MD Publications/Prints Publications, 2010, 6, Oxford University Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. New. This collection presents a new perspective on the role of culture in shaping the ambivalent attitude towards economic development of many marginalized people. The strength of this volume lies in how the essays provide examples from both within India and without, to illuminate old Dalit/Savarna and also Hindu/Muslim dynamics specific to India. The volume clearly defines how asymmetrical complementary relationships between Dalits and Savarnas are being replaced by short-term contractual labour relations that no longer involve long-term intergenerational reciprocal obligations. The essays draw attention to the non-modern, non-Western agents that have rendered invisible the dynamics of cyclicity, bio-cultural regeneration, and social and ecological reproduction (SER). What the volume achieves is an understanding of the specifics of Western modernism and modernism in India. Also, through specific examples in India, the US, and elsewhere, it clarifies some of the profound differences between modern, capitalist processes of marginalization as well as non-modern ones. Features * Unique perspective on modernism in India and the West * Significant contribution to Dalit/culture studies * Interdisciplinary scope * Eminent contributors include Ashis Nandy, Stephen Marglin, and Gail Omvedt Printed Pages: 360. NA, Oxford University Press, 2010, 6<

2010, ISBN: 9780198066415

New Delhi, India: MD Publications/Prints Publications, 2010. Influential historiographics of anti-colonial nationalism suggest that women's cultural identities-laid out in codes by wh… Mehr…

New Delhi, India: MD Publications/Prints Publications, 2010. Influential historiographics of anti-colonial nationalism suggest that women's cultural identities-laid out in codes by which they belong to their kin group and share in its collective future-are determined by the male elite's contentious relationship with imperialist modernity. The implication of such studies is that the new women's investment in her people's goals of gaining freedom from racial-masculinist domination and building independent nations inhibits her ability to self-actualize and intervene in patriarchal national history. Many feminist post-colonial scholars explore ways to theorize women's agency in nationalist contexts. They also avoid Western postmodernists liberalist faith in individual agency, and the allied binary model in which feminist subjectivity is "synthesized from fusions of outsider identities" positioned on the utopian margins of masculinist-racist regimes. Instead, post-colonial feminists explore how knowledge/power work pervasively and invisibly in capitalist modernities, constituting and "enabling" every subject position-dominant, subordinate oppositional. Printed Pages: 279.. Hardcover. New/New., MD Publications/Prints Publications, 2010, 6, Oxford University Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. New. This collection presents a new perspective on the role of culture in shaping the ambivalent attitude towards economic development of many marginalized people. The strength of this volume lies in how the essays provide examples from both within India and without, to illuminate old Dalit/Savarna and also Hindu/Muslim dynamics specific to India. The volume clearly defines how asymmetrical complementary relationships between Dalits and Savarnas are being replaced by short-term contractual labour relations that no longer involve long-term intergenerational reciprocal obligations. The essays draw attention to the non-modern, non-Western agents that have rendered invisible the dynamics of cyclicity, bio-cultural regeneration, and social and ecological reproduction (SER). What the volume achieves is an understanding of the specifics of Western modernism and modernism in India. Also, through specific examples in India, the US, and elsewhere, it clarifies some of the profound differences between modern, capitalist processes of marginalization as well as non-modern ones. Features * Unique perspective on modernism in India and the West * Significant contribution to Dalit/culture studies * Interdisciplinary scope * Eminent contributors include Ashis Nandy, Stephen Marglin, and Gail Omvedt Printed Pages: 360. NA, Oxford University Press, 2010, 6<

2010, ISBN: 9780198066415

New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2010 This volume provides a new perspective on the role of culture in shaping the attitudes towards economic development of marginalized people … Mehr…

New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2010 This volume provides a new perspective on the role of culture in shaping the attitudes towards economic development of marginalized people both in the global North and the global South. The strength of the collection lies in the examples from within India and without, which illuminate old Dalit–Savarna and Hindu–Muslim dynamics specific to India. These also facilitate a new understanding of the processes of marginalization in northern capitalist contexts. The essays draw attention to the various modernizing forces that have rendered invisible the dynamics of cyclicity, bio-cultural regeneration, and social and ecological reproduction. The volume contrasts Western modernity and modernizing processes in India, thereby providing startlingly new insights on modernity and non-modernity in contemporary India. This enables a deeper understanding of the nature of market forces and their effect on older, non-modern social, cultural, and epistemological dynamics and practices. Through specific examples and case studies from India, Europe, and the Americas, this volume explores key issues in the fraught relationship between development and marginalization. Contributors Rafiul Ahmed ?Frédérique Apffel-Marglin ?Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp ?Rahul Ghai ?Sanjay Kumar ?Stephen A. Marglin ?Arvind Mishra ?Ajit K. Mohanty ?Ashis Nandy ?Badri Narayan ?Gail Omvedt ?Ingrid Robeyns ?Linda Tuhiwai Smith ?Betsy Taylor . First Edition. Hardcover. New/New., Oxford University Press, 2010, 6<

2010, ISBN: 9780198066415

Insights from the Margins, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: OUP India], OUP India, 2010