Author: Reiland Rabaka File Type: pdf In this intellectual history-making volume, multiple award-winning W. E. B. Du Bois scholar Reiland Rabaka offers the first book-length treatment of Du Boiss seminal sociological discourse from Du Bois as inventor of the sociology of race to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology to Du Bois as innovator of the sociology of gender and inaugurator of intersectional sociology and, finally, from Du Bois as groundbreaking sociologist of education and critical criminologist to Du Bois as dialectical critic of the disciplinary decadence of sociology and the American academy. Against Epistemic Apartheid brings new and intensive archival research into critical dialogue with the watershed work of classical and contemporary, male and female, black and white, national and international sociologists and critical social theorists Du Bois studies. Against Epistemic Apartheid offers an accessible introduction to Du Boiss major contributions to sociology and, therefore, will be of interest to scholars and students not only in sociology, but also African American studies, American studies, cultural studies, critical race studies, gender studies, and postcolonial studies, as well as scholars and students in traditional disciplines such as history, philosophy, political science, economics, education, and religion. **Review Although the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois have in recent years begun to receive the attention they are due, Du Boiss radical sociology remains largely unrecognized. Du Bois was not only a founder of the field and a radical practitioner he was also a thunderous critic of sociology. He saw that the fields complacency in the face of human suffering, its collusion with oppression and its indifference to genocide, deeply undermined sociologys quest to understand social relationships and social structures. Against Epistemic Apartheid vindicates Du Bois as a theorist of an alternative sociology, a field oriented to the darker peoples of the earth, to women, to the urban slum and rural poverty, to the prison and the school. In the spirit of Du Bois, Rabaka questions the integrity of sociology. He understands Du Bois as an engaged scholar who, seeing the ways of power from outside, from the South and the East so to speak, developed an alternative sociology that we very much need today. (Howard Winant, director, Center for New Racial Studies, University of California Santa Barbara author, The World Is A Ghetto Race and Democracy Since World War II) This is a powerful book! Professor Rabaka not only shows how DuBois produced against all odds an alternative epistemology to challenge the social scientific discourse of his period. And since the epistemic apartheid remains firmly in place, we all would be well-served by understanding the DuBoisian episteme. (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University author of Racism Without Racists) We, sociologists in particular, have long been waiting for deep scholarship on Du Bois. This book may well be the first of a new wave in that much-needed projectone that does more than make clever allusion to Du Bois two-souls poetry. Against Epistemic Apartheid seriously examines the critical traditions from Du Bois to Fanon and Foucault that expose the disciplinary decadence of sociology and other of the human sciences. (Charles Lemert, Andrus Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University) Reiland Rabaka offers a much-needed critique of sociological technique and practice, and he proposes a corrective to the long-standing malicious negation of Du Boiss prophetic and progressive sociological perspective.... As we come to the end of this book, we are left satisfied, convinced, and enlightened by the authors characterization of Du Bois as a transdisciplinary human scientist and critical social theorist. ... Finally, this volume is necessary reading for the newly reinvigorated interest in Du Boiss contribution to sociology, history, philosophy, political science, economics, education, criminology, and religion. (American Journal of Sociology) This book is well written and draws heavily from primary sources. Recognizing that Du Bois interdisciplinary approach to the study of society was first introduced at a time when sociologys academic boundaries were being established and canonized, Rabaka argues that Du Bois social studies are transdisciplinary.... Providing a comprehensive overview of Du Bois extensive social discourse, Rabakas Against Epistemic Apartheid makes a significant contribution to the history of sociology, critical race theory, and Africana studies. (Contemporary Sociology) About the Author Reiland Rabaka is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also an Affiliate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program and a Research Fellow at the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA).html

Author: Carl Schmitt File Type: pdf Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), one of the great legal and political thinkers of the 20th century, thought long and hard about the role and significance of war. He saw how the international law of the Eurocentric era of world history began to falter at the end of World War I and foundered at the end of World War II. Following World War II, belligerent acts around the world began to assume a distinctly partisan character, and the belligerents were increasingly non-state actors. His Theory of the Partisan originated in two lectures that Schmitt delivered in 1962, which addressed the transformation of war in the post-European age. Schmitt concludes Theory of the Partisan with the statement The theory of the partisan flows into the question of the concept of the political, into the question of the real enemy and of a new nomos of the earth. Theory of the Partisan analyzes a specific and significant phenomenon that ushered in a new theory of war and enmity. It contains an implicit theory of the terrorist, which in the 21st century has ushered in yet another new theory of war and enmity. Consequently, this work is not only of historical interest, but is relevant to contemporary political and military developments and concerns. **

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Author: Chang Liu File Type: pdf This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand Chinas transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during this period. Based on local gazetteers, contemporary field studies, government archives, personal memoirs and other primary sources, it systematically compares two key macro-regions of rural China the North China plain and the Yangzi delta to demonstrate the ways in which the forces of political change, shaped by different local conditions, operated to transform the country. It shows that on the North China plain, the village community composed mainly of owner-cultivators was the focal point for political mobilization, whilst in the Yangzi delta absentee landlordism was exploited by the state for local control and tax extraction. However, these both set the stage, in different ways, for the communist mobilization in the first half of the twentieth century.Peasants and Revolution in Rural China is an important addition to the literature on the history of the Chinese Revolution, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the course of Chinese social and political development. ReviewChang Lius excellent study of peasants and social change in the century before the end of the War of Resistance builds on intellectual foundation, but by way of a research design goes to the next stage - The China Journal, January 2008About the AuthorChang Liu is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for New Political Economy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.